Richard Beddard

Financial writer, value investor

I'm stockmarket editor and a blogger/tweeter at Interactive Investor. I write two magazine columns; Share Sleuth for Money Observer, and Stock to Watch for Moneywise.

Each week I analyse the market and profile a company, research that has spawned two model portfolios, and corresponding magazine cover stories:

• The Thrifty 30 contains small, troubled companies added at bargain prices. Cover story [pdf]. 
• The Nifty Thrifty is a portfolio of large, muscular companies added at cheapish prices. Cover story [pdf].

I've documented how Benjamin Graham's original value investing methods (see Back to basics [pdf], pages 1,2 and 3)  still work today, recorded 30 years of stock market history through the eyes of private investors [pdf], advocated plain English, and appeared somewhat reluctantly on Internet TV, as interviewer, and interviewee.

Long ago, when I started work as a school teacher, I realised I enjoyed working things out and explaining them, which is why investing, and writing about investing, come naturally to me.

 

My new blog is There's More To Life Than Money.