Best Shares To Buy Now For The Long Term

Many investors will be feeling bruised and battered after a year or two of punishing stock market conditions. Even those who don't purchase shares directly will be feeling the pain. Superannuation returns have plummeted and most managed funds have gone backwards as well. So how do we as investors go about finding the best shares to buy now that stock prices seem to have stabilised?

In this post I'd like to describe some of the criteria I look at when investing. With share prices cheaper than they've been in years (although not as cheap as they were in March) I think now is a good time to buy shares provided they are as a long term investment in a quality business.

Value Investing Podcast - The Value Guys

Who said value investing has to be boring?

If you're a stock market investor with a bias towards buying value, then The Value Guys podcast might be right up your alley. Although it's a sometimes light-hearted discussion of stock investments, the principles these guys apply when analyzing a potential investment are well worth listening to.

The two protagonists on this weekly podcast go by the names of Val Hughes and Vern Value (they're at pains to point out that thee names are not real). In each episode Vern and Val pick 3 stocks each which they think may be undervalued and put forward their arguments as to why this might be the case.

Although The Value Guys mainly discuss American stocks, those of us investing in the Australian stock market will still get something out of it. As I mentioned earlier, I find it interesting to listen to the way they approach valuing these companies. And they're entertaining as well.

You might also be interested on the Australian Stock Exchange podcasts and the Gannon On Investing podcasts.