Picking shares: how to tell gems from the dross

Some stocks are cheap for a reason. But others are just plain cheap. But how to tell which is which? Tim Bennett explains.

Some stocks are cheap for a reason. But others are just plain cheap. But how to tell which is which? Tim Bennett explains.

"Buy American. I am." Following his recent high-profile $5bn cash injections into Goldman Sachs and General Electric, Warren Buffett has been on a share-buying spree again. Although cagey about what he bought this time, he boasts of always buying when shares are cheap and for Buffett, that's when other investors are at their most fearful and selling in a blind panic.

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Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.