Kenyantykoon's Blog

• SMALL COMPARISON BETWEEN THE NSE AND WALL STREET

  Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:32 am by kenyantykoon

  In  the previous post, a list of the most successful east african public companies, i briefly delved into the fact that the Nairobi Stock Exchange is the most developed in East Africa and is a major contender in the African Stock Markets. I have been reading a little about Wall Street and i found the most [...]

• MOST SUCCESSFUL EAST-AFRICAN PUBLIC COMPANIES

  Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:32 pm by kenyantykoon

  In the last post that i wrote,(income stock explained), the issue of east african companies came up in the comments box and i thought that instead of emailing that reader, i should make a post on them. So the following is a brief history of the nairobi stock exchange(NSE) and the most well known companies that [...]

• INCOME STOCK EXPLAINED

  Posted: August 26, 2009, 12:11 pm by kenyantykoon

  What are income stock you may ask? To be obscenely honest, i only got to know about them fairly recently. So this is a post on what i discovered about them. If a stock has returns higher than the market average then it can be referred to as an income stock Basically income stock are stocks a [...]

• PLEASE DO NOT INVEST IN MUTUAL FUNDS!!

  Posted: August 24, 2009, 2:10 pm by kenyantykoon

  Yes, against my better judgment, I am telling you what not to do with your money. Read on and see why I am saying this. If you own a mutual fund, you will most likely retire with less cash than if you had put your initial investment in a boring investment like an index fund There is [...]

• MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS EXPLAINED

  Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:10 pm by kenyantykoon

  As is the fashion in this blog, i will break down the mergers and acquisition in to its constitiuent words and then explain them from there A merger- more precisely referred  to as a merger of equals, as the word implies is the coming together of two companies in to one larger one there are many types of mergers like;                  -market extention mergers                              -horizontal [...]

• WILL GETTING RICHER MAKE YOU HAPPIER?? PROBABLY NOT.

  Posted: August 19, 2009, 6:37 pm by kenyantykoon

  Its been a long time ever since i posted something out of the norm and here it is….. I have always thought that making more money would make me happier but of late i have realised that nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, more money will buy you toys that will make you the envy [...]

• ARE SAVERS LOSERS??

  Posted: August 17, 2009, 1:41 pm by kenyantykoon

  Recently, i visited robert kiyosaki’s site  and i watched a video on savers being losers. According to him people, who work hard at a job and then open a bank account and save the money they earn will in the end be the losers. [Robert Kiyosaki is the financial advosor that is the author of the best seller [...]

• WHAT EXACTLY ARE SMALL CAP STOCK??

  Posted: August 13, 2009, 3:17 pm by kenyantykoon

  Like all the stocks i have covered of late the definition and dynamics of the stock is in the name of the stock. Small cap stocks are no different. To understand what small cap stocks are first break it down  into small cap and stocks small cap, according to investopedia.com means a low market capitalization of between [...]

• TYPES OF ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS

  Posted: August 10, 2009, 5:07 pm by kenyantykoon

  I once read that the difference between a recession and a depression is this; when your neighbor losses their job we are in a recession, when you loose your job we are in a depression. This obviously shows that a depression is a rock bottom case of a recession. Recently i wrote a post on unemployment in [...]

• YOU SHOULD INVEST IN VALUE STOCK!!

  Posted: August 7, 2009, 5:54 pm by kenyantykoon

  First we begin by introducing what value stock is. Basically a value stock is a stock that is considered good value for money. ‘Therefore this value stock can be any other of the company’s stocks This brings the question on how to value the stock of a company. This is where financial literacy comes in like being [...]

• CONVERTIBLE STOCK UNPUGGED!!

  Posted: August 5, 2009, 1:51 pm by kenyantykoon

  What are convertible stocks? First, convertible stocks are also referred to as convertible preferred stocks. As the name implies it is in essence a preferred stock that can be exchanged (converted) into another of the company’s securities usually a common stock anytime the stock holder feels like ie his option according to dictionary.bnet.com these these type of investments [...]

• THE HISTORY OF THE STOCK MARKET

  Posted: August 3, 2009, 1:43 pm by kenyantykoon

  Have you ever wondered how the stock market came to be? Personally, i have and luckily i found someone else how had and written a comprehensive post on the history of the stock market (here is the article) Apparently it did not begin as the super complex investment destination that very few people totally comprehend but [...]

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