Summary Table for Shares - Hypothetical Rankings in Local Currency
Sorted Alphabetically within Regions
| Overall Summary for Local Investors | |||||||
| See explanations at bottom | Month End: | ||||||
| Countries & Regions | Value | Trends | Sentiment | Action | Change | ||
| COUNTRY A | Buy | Hold | Sell | Hold | Down | ||
| COUNTRY B | Buy | Hold | Buy | Buy | Up | ||
| COUNTRY C | Add | Hold | Sell | Reduce | Down | ||
| Explanation | Recommendations are Buy, Add, Hold, Reduce or Sell. Objectives are absolute return in Local Currency, Dollars or return relative to a Global benchmark. | ||||||
| Value | To minimise the risk of value strategies misleading, we calculate the average extent of over/under-valuation from up to four valuation ratios. See Value Tables. | ||||||
| Trends | Four different kinds of trend strategies are combined to generate an exponential improvement in the odds of successfully predicting market direction. See Trend Tables. | ||||||
| Sentiment | This is a contrarian strategy, whereby up to 16 indicators of investor sentiment are combined to generate market forecasts a year ahead. See Sentiment Tables. | ||||||
| Action | Our overall recommendation on what action to take, based on combining Value, Trend and Sentiment strategies, to maximise the odds of picking winners and avoiding losers. | ||||||
| Change | The net effect of any upgrades or downgrades is shown here so as to provide subscibers with a short-cut to identifying significant changes. | ||||||
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Visitor: Where should I start? Your site is so big.
RouteMaster: Think of this first visit as an overview. Ranking tables are a good place to start your stock market analysis. Here is an extract from the master table, summarising the situation for each country, so you can see at a glance how every market is rated. There is a full set of more detailed tables to show the rankings according to individual investment strategies.
The signals in this particular example are hypothetical. If you look down the rows, you can see that Investors RouteMap provides opinions on 39 different countries and 12 regional averages, which we designed to reflect the most popular international investment mandates.
The subject is complex, so you either have to trust someone else to manage your money, or do the home work yourself. We make it as easy as possible by providing contextual help at the bottom, as shown in this extract.
As a subscriber you might want to start a regular monthly investment review by checking these tables. Our slogan is " High Performance - Low Maintenance ". As to the latter, we find that an hour or so spent each month on the RouteMap for Shares may keep you well up to speed.
By the way, if you find a particular country attractive, but don't know much about it, there are fact sheets on the key factors for investing in each country in Profiles. Even if you are expert, it is often useful to remind oneself.