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Investing at its Best and
attention through the sheer weight of its clients’ com
bined holding. Its unrivalled experience enables it to
cope with difficulties as they arise, and it is thus
frequently able to avert misfortunes that might other
wise easily prove disastrous. Private investors cannot
protect their own interests single-handed; but a well-
managed combine of investors can always compel
consideration.
Investors are strongly urged to contrast the method,
they have hitherto followed in dealing with their invest
ments, with the definite and effective rules that govern
investment on the principle of Geographical Distribution
of Capital. By doing so they will learn to examine
investments with care, will acquire a taste for mastering
the seemingly complex, but really very simple problem
of investing to advantage, so that finally they will be
able to lay out their capital with signal success.
Merely having read “ All About Investment ” has
saved many investors from financial disasters. The
book will teach anyone how to construct a perfect list
of investments, and how, with some slight professional
advice, to choose the best stocks for purchase.
When financial authorities are consulted it should
always be ascertained whether they favour the old
methods, or advise on the principle of Geographical
Distribution of Capital. Enough has been said on that
score to make it quite clear that advisers, w’ho follow the
obsolete methods, are likely to prove more dangerous
to the investor than any mistakes which he might make