The Motley Fool
JUNE 7, 2024
Most investors have watched growth stocks like the aforementioned Nvidia or Facebook parent Meta trounce value stocks -- including Berkshire -- coming out of the bear market prompted by 2008's subprime mortgage meltdown. Interest rates are also back to multi-year highs, reaching levels seen just before 2008's turbulence.
The Big Picture
APRIL 19, 2023
Despite the headline, the Wall Street Journal chart (above) reveals 2022 as the exception that proves the point: Prior selloffs — 2000-03 and 2008-09 — were all equity driven. I have read endless screeds the past few years as to the return of the active investor and why passive is definitely going to fail this cycle.
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The Motley Fool
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Most people, even the most diligent and active investors, are bored silly by regulatory filings. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,232 !* One of the rare exceptions is the 13F forms submitted by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
The Motley Fool
APRIL 11, 2024
For example, Dalio was one of the few fund managers who generated positive returns in the 2008 financial crisis. Even if you're an active investor in individual stocks -- like Buffett and Dalio are -- rock-solid index funds like these four can help form an excellent backbone for your portfolio.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 29, 2022
BALCHUNAS: … I would say the financial crisis of 2008 is when they really kicked in. So that mutual ownership company that he created, and once it got really popular and they gradually then suddenly kicked in in 2008, and they started getting trillions, once the trillions start to kick in, a couple of things happened. RITHOLTZ: Right.
The Big Picture
OCTOBER 24, 2022
NORTON: So in 2008, I just received my CFA charter, and I was beginning to look around and think about, you know, where else would I want to go in this company or outside the company. And so I tossed my hat in the ring and moved over in October 15, 2008. But as an active investor, I can say I’m a big fan of passive investing.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 20, 2024
00:20:33 And so in that period they ceased to be passive investors, they became active investors, and that became an opportunity for outperformance. Everybody is an active investor. Well, 00:53:16 [Speaker Changed] They’re an active trader when they’re deploying the capital.
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