Don’t follow the trend – hunt for value

Buying stocks boils down to one of two strategies: follow momentum or hunt down value. Now, you should be looking for value, says Tim Bennett. Here, he explains how to find it.

All stockmarket investing boils down to one of two strategies: you either follow momentum, or you hunt down value. At any given time, one strategy or the other tends to have the upper hand so which should you be following now?

Momentum investing

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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.