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FAQ: I want to know more about your company and Conscious Investor?
  1. Will your company be around for the long term?
  2. Has Warren Buffett endorsed Conscious Investor?
  3. Why is Professor John Price uniquely qualified to “unlock” the secrets of Warren Buffett?
  4. How do I know that the functions are in line with Buffett’s ideas since I can't see how they are written?
  5. There are many “value” type of software systems on the market, many of which claim to emulate a “Buffett” approach. What makes Conscious Investor any different?
  6. What training materials do I receive when I subscribe?
  7. When should I sell stocks in my portfolio?
  8. What is STAEGR?
  9. What are some other proprietary tools in Conscious investor?
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    Q Will your company be around for the long term?

    Conscious Investing is in a strong financial position, which is usually a key determinant in business longevity.

    Conscious Investing has a proven formula for business success that is profitable and effective in fulfilling a yawning gap in the market place (albeit a niche market). We regularly receive emails from around the world asking when we will be able to offer the product to an international market.

    Perhaps more important however is the fact that the founders and operators are passionate about what the software offers and represents. We are not the only ones who feel this way.

    For every client who purchases the software we receive an average of one referral sale. Clearly the market thinks we are doing something right.


    Q Has Warren Buffett endorsed Conscious Investor?

    Professor Price has communicated with Warren Buffett but has not specifically asked him about the formulae in the system.

    Remember Warren Buffett is actually quite secretive about what he does. He is not an educator or in the business of giving away his intellectual property.

    Warren Buffett himself says that he is in the business of allocating capital and that it is a competitive business - it's not for him to give away his profitable ideas. He is generous in sharing many of his ideas in a general way with his shareholders and the public but he does not reveal the critical financial steps that he uses.


    Q Why is Professor John Price uniquely qualified to “unlock” the secrets of Warren Buffett?

    Professor John Price has been able to use his expertise as a research mathematician to "test" what Buffett says he does and what he actually has done in terms of the investment decisions he has made.

    As a developer of large scale risk systems for companies like BT Funds Management, the Australian Wheat Board and the Australian Wool Board, Professor Price is uniquely qualified to develop the intellectual property contained within Conscious Investor.


    Q How do I know that the functions are in line with Buffett’s ideas since I cant see how they are written?

    The functions within Conscious Investor have been developed by financial mathematician Professor John Price who is a leading authority on the techniques of Warren Buffett.

    Professor Price has been teaching generations of fund managers since 1969. He has taught in 6 different countries around the world.

    If you read the contents of our free three-part Newsletter - "The Investment Secrets of Warren Buffett" you will get an understanding of the functions in the software and how they have been developed to replicate Buffett's approach.

    Also if you read some of the articles on our website they provide a background into the intellectual property contained within the software.

    Finally, the workshop video that you receive with the software actually shows you how the functions are calculated.

    We do this so that our clients gain a deeper understanding of the functions and therefore greater confidence in using them. We endeavour to be fully transparent with our clients so that they learn the knowledge to invest with confidence. We don’t ask our clients to rely on our calculations blindly. However, these calculations are also our core intellectual property and therefore they are restricted to clients only. We offer a money back guarantee to all clients.


    Q There are other “value” type of software systems on the market, many of which claim to emulate a “Buffett” approach. What makes Conscious Investor any different?

    Conscious Investor does not use any discounted cashflows as we believe that this is a nonsensical approach that allows us to generate any "intrinsic" value that we desire.

    Please read Professor Price's article - Why Stock Value Systems Have No Value :
    http://www.conscious-investor.com/articles/articles/ar04value.asp

    The systems on the market that deal with value or intrinsic value employ discounted cash flow methodologies.

    As a result, these systems are not statistically valid and in our view they simply don't work. John Price believes that Buffett is not in the business of teaching the public how to invest wisely - and that he is intensely secretive about his true methods.

    Professor Price has not just taken Buffett's literal words, but actually conducted large scale studies to test each part of what Buffett says he does.

    In doing this John Price has concluded that there is a reasonable gap between what Buffett actually does and what he says he does!


    Q What training materials do I receive when I subscribe?

    Everything that you need is online including video and audio materials, knowledge base, manuals, member forum and various manuals.



    Q When should I sell stocks in my portfolio?
    The basic maxim is: "Sell only when you are confident that you have something significantly better to do with your money." This could be investing in another company. Or it could be going on a holiday to the Bahamas or putting it under your mattress. The important thing is to make this decision before selling your stock.

    A corollary to the basic maxim is: "Don't sell and then look for something to do with your money." Avoid rules such as "sell the stock if it doesn't perform in three years' time" or any other artificial rules.

    The important thing about Conscious Investor is that it makes it very easy to compare the profitablity of different investments. With Conscious Investor the whole strategy is based on the idea that you are buying and selling businesses, not lottery tickets


    Q What is STAEGR®?
    STAEGR® measures the stability of earnings growth from year to year and expresses it as a percentage. The maximum figure of 100% represents earnings that go up, or down, by the same percentage each year. The calculations are based on fitting an exponential curve to the historical data with more emphasis on recent data. Special adjustments are made for negative earnings, for extreme outliers, and for earnings near zero.

    Q What are some other proprietary tools in Conscious Investor?

    Conscious Investor contains many proprietary investment tools developed by Professor Price. For example, STRETTM is a calculation for determining the average annual return or profit from buying a stock under each investor's own margin of safety. STRETD® is the same calculation assuming that the dividends will be used to buy more units of the stock.

    Another example is TARGTM. It is the most that should be paid for a stock in order to achieve a specified return or profit under each investor's margin of safety. TARGD® is the same calculation assuming that the dividends will be used to buy more units of the stock.

    These powerful tools are seamlessly included in Conscious Investor so that they are both natural and effortless to use.

     

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