Investing strategies: used by billionaires to amass their fortunes

There are many investing strategies, which investors use. Value investing, contrarian investing and growth investing are mostly used investing strategies. Let’s briefly study them.

Value investing is the most successful investing strategy. It was founded by Benjamin Graham, mentor of Warren Buffet. In this strategy investors see for underpriced securities based on some formula other than market price. This formula for ascertaining the value of the security is generally some multiple of income of the corporation. Value investors usually have to wait for longer in order to realize the full value of their assets.

Along with Warren Buffet many other successful investors follow the value investing strategy of investing. According to researches value investing proved to be the most successful way of investing.  Many billionaire investors favor value investing over other forms of investing. Warren Buffet, Howard Marks, Seth Andrew Klarman, Charles Brandes, Walter J. Schloss, Irving Kahn, Mario Joseph Gabelli, Michael F. Price   are some of most successful value investors.     

Another strategy is contrarian investing. Contrarian investing is buying when other people are selling and selling when other people are buying. Every up and down in the overall stock market or some specific share price offers opportunity of selling and buying to these contrarians respectively.  Warren Buffet is also sometimes referred to as contrarian investor, owing to the obvious reason of many similarities between contrarian and value investing strategy. Other famous proponents of contrarian investing are Michael F. Price, James Beeland Rogers, Marc Faber, David Dreman, Mark E. Ripple, and William Albert Ackman.

Growth investing is another strategy which many successful investors use.  Those who follow growth investing strategy invest in companies that show above average growth even when their shares seem to be highly priced. Unlike value investors, growth investors buy stock in companies that are trading higher than their intrinsic value-assuming that the intrinsic value would grow eventually exceeding current valuations. These investors focus on capital appreciation. Venture capital funds can be classified as growth investors.