Do your proper investigation before investing on any firm or assets.

[justdimin]

I recall Buffett's phrase - if you don't understand what you want to invest in, then don't invest. Well, this is not a literal quote, but the general meaning is as follows. Here's a similar situation. By the way, this rule can be extended to betting prediction markets. In general, investments are always associated with a certain amount of risk, even if the investor has conducted a thorough analysis.

Things have become more complex and I think that phrase alone isn't enough to describe current state of investment.
People who invest into funeral firms mostly know very well what they are investing in, heck, I don't even consider it as an investment but they are getting short end of the stick because reckless capital reinvestment.

I do not think that it got any complex, and the phrase is as true today as it was when he said it. If you do not fully comprehend what you are investing into, then do not invest into it at all. I get that it's harder to understand stuff now because we have more complicated stuff, but we also have stuff that makes those things less complicated.

You do not understand about margin trading and leverages and futures? Ask chatgpt and it will make it as understandable as it goes, hell you could even tell it to explain it to like some 10 year old kid, and it will do that, so there is no way you will not understand it, and it will be easy. So Warren is still right, only invest into things that you could make money from and understand.

[Unknown Op]

In investments the risk can never be eliminated 100% it can only be managed with proper understanding, if investors only look for safe companies for their investment then it might be a possibility that they miss the real growth opportunities,  there are many successful companies around us who used to have very weak balance sheet or their management was very uncertain during their early stages but after there innovations technology and their hard work now they are at the top level.
Investors should focus on diversification rather than finding safe companies for their investment the goal is not to eliminate this completely but to manage while participating in all the growth opportunities that they get.

[Grace333]

Research doesn't only covers what any asset or investment can do for you, it comprises of what they can't do as well and knowing the chances of that asset, firm or investment to do well in the future irrespective of the company's highly esteemed nature. Most companies knows how to sell themselves very well without professional ideas on how to move the company to its peak performance and when you come across such companies you can get hypnotized of thinking you're making the best decision meanwhile you're falling into a trap.

[blockman]

Because we know that we do this investment with the aim of making a profit but we also know that this is something that involves the risk of loss as well, therefore it is better and highly recommended to be able to do research first by not jumping directly at first especially not having enough knowledge, at least having basic knowledge first which includes what must be considered before investing.

That is a grave common mistake by many investors that they jump on the investments that they are just told how profitable it is. Without doing proper research, they're putting their trust on the man's word and not of their own research and investigation. In the end, they're the one who's losing more money and they're making themselves confident that if it has made others profitable, then jumping on that investment will also make them profitable. They're not actually wrong with that as long as it's a good one but, that's the kind of irresponsible type of investing and shouldn't be made by someone who values a lot the money that they have worked hard for.

[Makus]

The drive some people have behind the investments that they make is just to make quick money not minding what they are actually putting their money into. Some people that are currently poor didn't squander or spend carelessly, not everyone has such a story but some people made wrong investments that put them in the situation that they are in currently. Before making any investments it is wise to ask questions and do proper research, don't just take people's word for it, just because they explain it well doesn't mean it works the way it's explained to you.

[Yeesha]

Research doesn't only covers what any asset or investment can do for you, it comprises of what they can't do as well and knowing the chances of that asset, firm or investment to do well in the future irrespective of the company's highly esteemed nature. Most companies knows how to sell themselves very well without professional ideas on how to move the company to its peak performance and when you come across such companies you can get hypnotized of thinking you're making the best decision meanwhile you're falling into a trap.

Research cover several things, with the help of researching, you will do the effect of what you are about to get yourself into. You will also know it advantages and the disadvantages and know whether its going to be beneficial to you or not. It is very important for you to overthink or overview whatever decision you choose to make in life, but it very obvious that human beings are capable of making mistakes.

[MRY]

Research doesn't only covers what any asset or investment can do for you, it comprises of what they can't do as well and knowing the chances of that asset, firm or investment to do well in the future irrespective of the company's highly esteemed nature. Most companies knows how to sell themselves very well without professional ideas on how to move the company to its peak performance and when you come across such companies you can get hypnotized of thinking you're making the best decision meanwhile you're falling into a trap.

Research cover several things, with the help of researching, you will do the effect of what you are about to get yourself into. You will also know it advantages and the disadvantages and know whether its going to be beneficial to you or not. It is very important for you to overthink or overview whatever decision you choose to make in life, but it very obvious that human beings are capable of making mistakes.

The pre analysis is one of the main filters to limit the consequences of possible losses of money and personal life. The extensive risk mapping facilitates easy calculation of future projections but the errors of the human factor cannot be completely avoided. Calculative preparedness averts negative effects, and all the steps are well supported in foreseeing uncertainty in the breakdown of the operations.

[terrific]

Before investing, it should be your obligations to consider the quality of the firm management capability including their potential abilities against future innovation if necessary and the ability to withstand industrious competitions.

Not only about the firm and how they manage but also with their picks.
If you're into this kind of investing, you have to be prepared and have done your research.
Because they'll also need to earn from their investors through the profit they make.
But to be honest, I avoid this type of investing. I'll choose to be the owner of my own assets and manage it by myself.
While this sets a good standard of how good as an investor you are, we've got plenty of choice of how to be good in choosing options to invest.

[AVE5]

Before investing, it should be your obligations to consider the quality of the firm management capability including their potential abilities against future innovation if necessary and the ability to withstand industrious competitions.

Not only about the firm and how they manage but also with their picks.
If you're into this kind of investing, you have to be prepared and have done your research.
Because they'll also need to earn from their investors through the profit they make.
But to be honest, I avoid this type of investing. I'll choose to be the owner of my own assets and manage it by myself.
While this sets a good standard of how good as an investor you are, we've got plenty of choice of how to be good in choosing options to invest.

That's a good one of making the right decision to take control of your investment afterall it's a digital asset that doesn't necessarily require an authority to handle it for you before it can be safe.
But I've also learnt that some investors who hands their crypto or digital assets to the firms are because of the insurance. So they trust the company instead of making research on the asset themselves and keep custody of the investment themselves.
Some don't even consider the possibilities of the firms compromising but because it's government licensed they feel too reluctant and lazy without even considering the financial and managerial competence of the firm.

[Dave1]

That's a good one of making the right decision to take control of your investment afterall it's a digital asset that doesn't necessarily require an authority to handle it for you before it can be safe.
But I've also learnt that some investors who hands their crypto or digital assets to the firms are because of the insurance. So they trust the company instead of making research on the asset themselves and keep custody of the investment themselves.
Some don't even consider the possibilities of the firms compromising but because it's government licensed they feel too reluctant and lazy without even considering the financial and managerial competence of the firm.

And that's why we have instruments like ETF because crypto enthusiast "trusted" this 3rd party to hold their Bitcoin and invest it for them. But for the majority of us here who are not that wealthy or just average joe, we should do our own research before investing our hard earn money.

Not on Bitcoin, as it's too big to fall and it's the prime mover. But more on the stocks or altcoins. Specially the latter as it has bigger risk that Bitcoin but if you are lucky and invest on the right time due to you studying the market, you can profit and make a lot of money. You just have to exit on time and not to be greedy.

[AmaGold70]

Making proper research before investing in any company is very important, it will enable you to know the owners of the company, and maybe the experience they have in that particular field of investing,  also to know their partners , and their registration with the appropriate authority. All these information will help you a lot to make your investment decision. More also, if you are not satisfied on your personal research, you can seek the help of investment advisors. Sometimes, their are things or signals to show if a a company or an asset has a solid background, and will not crash in the future, and their are those in this field who can help you do that, they will be able to analyze the company or asset, and tell you the possibility of that asset or company to remain on long term investment.

[Fortify]

The content of the news behind this thread South Korean Funeral Firms Face Insolvency Amid Crypto ETF Losses provoked me to create this thread and the caption from the Op on the quote below is where I want to emphasize on.
I wanted my opinion to be visible since i found it informative otherwise, i would had just posted it as reply in the Op.

Another thing is that people and organizations should first research before investing.

I've also read multiple news about organizations and companies shuts down due to high liquidation leaving investors and affiliates stranded in panics on how to recover their funds due to INSOLVENCY.
Overtimes many investors fails to take note that there're supposed to be criterias to be considered before investing in ant firm regardless of how promising the firm might be positioned.
Of course long term sustainability of the firms services should be made a prior.
Similar breaking news is referencing the risk of being ignorant to inquire before investing is the Harvard dumps entire ETH position after just one quarter. Here it's also important to consider what assets you're buying.

Before investing, it should be your obligations to consider the quality of the firm management capabilityftp:// including their potential abilities against future innovation if necessary and the ability to withstand industrious competitions.

Most people simply don't have the time or skills to be doing complex research into investments, but nor should they spend massive amounts on specialist advice which is often not worth the money. You will make decent returns by putting your money into an average index fund with minimal management fees and trying to make use of any vehicles which give you a tax advantage in your country. It doesn't have to get any more complicated than that, just do a bit of research to compare investment platforms because they can often add in extra fees too and you need to know how much it'll cost to keep an account open with them.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

There was this article I was reading and I came across a statement which says that even some great companies in the past has failed and there is slim chance that even a great company can fail in the future if mismanaged or maybe something goes wrong, then the company is likely experience some challenges that if not handle can lead to failure. First is to do a proper research before investing and second is to also observe and monitor consistently the success or happenings with that company, so that when any challenges is arising, you can step down first before the  bubble bust.

[terrific]

Not only about the firm and how they manage but also with their picks.
If you're into this kind of investing, you have to be prepared and have done your research.
Because they'll also need to earn from their investors through the profit they make.
But to be honest, I avoid this type of investing. I'll choose to be the owner of my own assets and manage it by myself.
While this sets a good standard of how good as an investor you are, we've got plenty of choice of how to be good in choosing options to invest.

That's a good one of making the right decision to take control of your investment afterall it's a digital asset that doesn't necessarily require an authority to handle it for you before it can be safe.
But I've also learnt that some investors who hands their crypto or digital assets to the firms are because of the insurance. So they trust the company instead of making research on the asset themselves and keep custody of the investment themselves.
Some don't even consider the possibilities of the firms compromising but because it's government licensed they feel too reluctant and lazy without even considering the financial and managerial competence of the firm.

Yes, if it's with Bitcoin. We don't need someone to manage it for us, we are actually the fund managers of our own funds.
And this is not yet understood by the traditional investors that pays sums of commissions to their fund managers.
Once they realize that the profit they're making, a part of it goes to the commissions and managers fee.
They'll have to compute how much actually goes on them. So, having bitcoin as an investment and store of value saves them a lot of trouble from that.

[Fredomago]

Making proper research before investing in any company is very important, it will enable you to know the owners of the company, and maybe the experience they have in that particular field of investing,  also to know their partners , and their registration with the appropriate authority. All these information will help you a lot to make your investment decision. More also, if you are not satisfied on your personal research, you can seek the help of investment advisors. Sometimes, their are things or signals to show if a a company or an asset has a solid background, and will not crash in the future, and their are those in this field who can help you do that, they will be able to analyze the company or asset, and tell you the possibility of that asset or company to remain on long term investment.

Those factors that you mentioned are critical in terms of putting up your investment, knowing the people behind and knowing their goals and perspectives to make the investments to succeed, all those are possible reasons why you will put your hard earned money and support them especially if you have a long term plan, like compounding your saves assets and continuously adding your investment, the people behind have a crucial role for you to earn and succeed with your goals.

[Agathamay]

The truth is that, the power of DYOR can't be over emphasized and that is simply because no one is supposed to be responsible for what ever actions you choose to take as long as cryptocurrency is concerned.

I totally see no reason why a person would not do some research even to the least of asking question about why they are about to invest their hard earned money especially now that google and AI has made things easier to search for on the internet

I also know some other group of people who aren't interested in making any research as they just want someone who will guaranty them steady profits if they invest a certain amount of money and this just open your eyes that the industry and people are always weird

[junder]

Research cover several things, with the help of researching, you will do the effect of what you are about to get yourself into. You will also know it advantages and the disadvantages and know whether its going to be beneficial to you or not. It is very important for you to overthink or overview whatever decision you choose to make in life, but it very obvious that human beings are capable of making mistakes.

Being one of the important requirements that must be done with one of the clear objectives is to anticipate the occurrence of something unwanted, doing research is the right step before acting whether in investing or outside of it.
 
Some people do not pay attention to this and just do what they want without doing research first so that when a problem occurs they become confused themselves. This is why it is important to do your research especially when it comes to profits and losses.

[Leahized]

Before we could do anything about an investment, the first step that must be put into consideration is our research about it, how informed are we and what do we know about them, this will give us the perception of whom they are and if we could risk making an investment with them or not, a lot of people have gone into many unwanted situations all because they couldn't make the necessary findings needed before the jump into an investment, which is why we have to look before we leap.

I don't think there are any such stupid people nowadays, who don't have idea about where to invest. We all invest for profit, so even if everyone doesn't observe anything else, profit the damage will be calculated. However, long term planning should be done in the field of investment so that it can be easily assessed how profitable it can be. This is a very good move as it is better to do enough research before making any decision. Later it will be easy to predict how well the institutions will be run. And can be invested safely.

[AVE5]

Making proper research before investing in any company is very important, it will enable you to know the owners of the company, and maybe the experience they have in that particular field of investing,  also to know their partners , and their registration with the appropriate authority. All these information will help you a lot to make your investment decision. More also, if you are not satisfied on your personal research, you can seek the help of investment advisors. Sometimes, their are things or signals to show if a a company or an asset has a solid background, and will not crash in the future, and their are those in this field who can help you do that, they will be able to analyze the company or asset, and tell you the possibility of that asset or company to remain on long term investment.

Those factors that you mentioned are critical in terms of putting up your investment, knowing the people behind and knowing their goals and perspectives to make the investments to succeed, all those are possible reasons why you will put your hard earned money and support them especially if you have a long term plan, like compounding your saves assets and continuously adding your investment, the people behind have a crucial role for you to earn and succeed with your goals.

Aha, those are beyond critical but crucial because without haven to understand the visions and missions of the company you're partnering with and entrust your investment funds with them, you're cordially making blind decision on that investment journey with the very high probability of loosing it. Of course they can be scammers or companies with a very short term vision while you're hoping to hold on the long term.
It's also important to verify the companies licence registration to confirm her authenticity including the potentiality of the asset the company or you're trading on. Then you can determine your faith and understand how to manage the risk factors.

[tygeade]

Of course I do, but at these days I do not even need to. Because I do small investments to bitcoin, not much unfortunately, I wish I could do more, but when I had money back in the day, I did a lot more. And in the end, all of this was just something I already knew, bitcoin is bitcoin and there is no investigation needed for it anymore.

So while it is suggested that you do, when you do it, afterwards is easier, I did my investigation and research back in the day, but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with bad results anymore, it is going to be fine. These things take time as well, so you need to know that you are in it for the long run and not just for today, if you can do that, then you could be fine.