The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

Because I think it's especially pertinent right now, where we see a lot of investment firms, investment banks starting the year with these large scale market forecasts and they turn out to be very wrong, spectacularly the majority of the time. But first, I want to touch on some research that you've done.

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The Big Picture

JULY 18, 2023

Most guys and gals who get into the business of working at a hedge fund, never mind you know founding and running one, you I think there’s a pretty typical track where they’re finance majors at top schools, they work at an investment bank or an advisory bank, sometimes at a law firm, and then they make their way into the investing realm.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. MIELLE: After 2008? RITHOLTZ: 2008, ’09. RITHOLTZ: It’s mutual funds. It’s hedge funds. I wanted a job that would take me away from Paris. MIELLE: Correct.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $20,589 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $40,491 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $369,776 !* Maybe 12, I'm guessing.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $334,473 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,122 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $524,100 !* Thank you.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Tony Kim, is managing director at BlackRock, where he heads the fundamental equity technology group helping to oversee all of the active technology investments BlackRock makes. You end up doing investment banking in New York in the mid nineties.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $365,174 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $42,164 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $469,011 !* Didn't seem to matter.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

So when he bought Goldman Sachs in November of 2008 and Bank of America in November 2008, I thought about a traditional portfolio manager doing the same thing and trying to explain to their clients what they just did. He said, that’s interesting because we do that in investing all the time. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Vanguard recently executed its largest cut to investment fees in its roughly five-decade existence. The largest investment management firm in the world lowered the expense ratio on 168 of its mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Treasury bills and notes yield less than longer-dated U.S.

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