As an academic and practitioner in the field of enterprise value analysis and creation, I have studied extensively the methods used and philosophies that successful investors have to select their investments. In a field of endeavor such as this, I find it useful – critical actually – to synthesize the methods and philosophies of successful investors into a few broad concepts. I have been an investor since I was thirteen years old and have been a professional investment banker, securities analyst, and investment portfolio manager for thirty-six years – so I have been at this endeavor of discovering the successful investment strategies for quite some time. I have boiled all of this down into what I call The Six Essential Concepts of Investing. To continue reading, please log in to your account or complete the Free Sign-up in the upper right-hand corner of this page. Then click on The Six Essential Concepts of Investing to read this article in the October print edition of the Intrinsic Value Wealth Report.