Road map to wealth

“THE future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.” So says Warren Buffet, America’s famed investment guru who is now the second richest man in the world.  

With the war in Iraq, equity markets the world over are jittery. As such, the typical retail investor is hard pressed to decide where to park his precious funds. Amidst such uncertainty, many retail investors have begun to ask themselves: Is investing in stocks the most intelligent path to wealth for most of us? Despite the current volatility, many investment authorities answer this with a firm ‘yes’.