About this ebook
You do this by developing your value investing skills through a combination of education, practice, and ongoing refinements. The book provides concepts, worked examples and links to free online resources to enable this.
While there are many ways to develop your value investing skills, you should learn from this book if:
a) You don't have the time to follow a formal course and want to self-study.
b) You learn better through text rather than through other mediums.
c) You want a cost-effective yet in-depth dive into the subject.
This book is based on the author’s 2 decades experience of value investing, as well as running listed companies as the CEO. It differs from other value investing book by:
• Sharing practical insights based on the author's investing experience.
• Using lessons from the author's self-study journey to provide step-by-step guide to real life case studies.
• Sharing company analysis insights based on the author's business experience.
By the time you finish the book, you will be able to answer 4 key investing questions.
• What to buy?
• How much to buy?
• When to buy or sell?
• How to mitigate risks?
The central tenet of the book is how to avoid permanent loss of capital, the value investor’s view of risk. The author shows how to pull the various learning lessons into a value investment process that avoids permanent loss of capital. It provides a comprehensive approach from determining how much of your net worth should be allocated for stocks to picking individual stocks for your stock portfolio.
About the author
Dato' H.C. Eu was formerly on the Board of i-Berhad from 1999 to 2020 and was educated at the Royal Military College (RMC). On Jan 1, 2022, I-Berhad again appointed him as a non-independent non-executive director and a member of the company’s audit, nomination, and risk management committees.
Dato' Eu has been associated with Sumurwang and its Group of Companies (Sumurwang Group) as its Chief Executive with many years of experience including charting the path for Sumurwang's manufacturing arm, firstly under Dreamland Holdings Berhad and its subsequent venture into the steel business and the acquisition of i-Berhad.
Before joining the Sumurwang Group, he was with PA Management Consulting as a Consultant for 10 years where he was also appointed as the Director of Studies for the Cranfield PA MBA Programme in Malaysia.
He is a self-taught value investor and has been investing in Bursa Malaysia and SGX companies from a value investing perspective for more than 2 decades. Before this, he would consider himself a "speculator" in the Graham context.
He currently shares his investment thoughts in his blog i4value.asia. He writes regularly for such investing sites as ValueWalk and Seeking Alpha. His Malaysian articles are frequently repurposed in such Malaysian media as Focus Malaysia and iProperty.com.
