How to bag a bargain when buying shares

Hunting for quality stocks in a troubled market can be fraught with danger. Here, Tim Bennett explains the fives tests that alert you to when a share is a bargain buy.

The bad news from beaten-up Europe keeps coming thick and fast. But bad news is good news for bargain hunters. The question is how to find quality stocks that have been unfairly dragged down with the rest.

Graham Secker at Morgan Stanley has been trawling the market and recently wrote a paper for Morgan Stanley entitled A Buyer's Compendium For Value Ideas.

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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.