Five ways to become a better investor

There's no instant way to strike it rich on the stockmarkets without risking ruin. But you can tilt the odds in your favour in the long run, says Tim Bennett. Here, he reveals five tips that could make you a better investor.

Everyone wants to make an overnight fortune on the stockmarket. The trouble is, unless you get colossally lucky and put a potentially life-ruining amount of capital at risk, you can't. So what you need to do over the long run that you are investing, says experienced value investor David Merkel on Alephblog.com, is to "tilt the odds of success" in your favour. But how can you do that?

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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.