When it comes to buying stocks, there are typically two big-picture strategies you can choose from – growth investing or value investing. The idea of growth investing largely speaks for itself.

Growth investing focuses on companies with strong potential for future expansion, often shown through rising revenue, profits ...

Investing early in companies leading in long ... thus their name, finding value. Growth stock companies tend to reinvest their earnings back into the company and return value to shareholders ...

However, growth and value investing tend to go through cycles. While growth stocks have outperformed since 2008, value stocks outperformed between 2001 and 2008 following the dot-com bust.

Investment firms Greycroft, DST Global and Avra co-led a $265 million growth investment in Whatnot valuing the online live shopping company at nearly $5 billion.

This tends to make value investing a lower-risk trading strategy than growth investing. Growth investors make more speculative bets about which up-and-coming companies will be tomorrow's market ...

One question that consistently comes across my desk is why we maintain a global value portfolio when growth stocks and U.S. markets are clearly dominating the investment landscape. The answer, quite ...