The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

A plug-and-play investment vehicle for passive investors The Vanguard Energy ETF is a simple, low-cost way to invest in U.S. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $357,084 !* energy stocks.

Exchange-Traded Funds 240

Exchange-Traded Funds Passive Investors Debt Shareholders 240

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I believe it still will.

Startups 218

Startups Passive Investors Buyout Venture Capital 218

Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

From March 2009 when the S&P 500 traded at 13x earnings to August 2020 when it peaked at 23x, a passive investor in the market earned 16% per annum. 8 Breaking down the total returns by source from December 2009 to December 2020 shows that 44% of the index’s average total return was from multiple expansion.

Leveraging 52

Leveraging Debt Banks Leveraged Buyouts 52

The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2025

The broader lesson I would take out as a US investor is if you've historically had six or seven or eight companies in your portfolio, maybe it's time to rethink that and think about holding 20 stocks. You don't have to hold an index fund maybe you don't want to be a passive investor. But 2008 broke that script.

Investing 130

Investing Mutual Funds Taxes Hedge Funds 130

The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

It's clear that the champion of investing is less than confident in the current market, and that passive investors have a pretty clear buy-in for shares in a company that knows when to buy and sell. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $300,143 !*

Investing 100

Investing Passive Investors Amortization Depreciation 100

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $344,352 !* And that's one of our key focuses is that we're not passive investors. If youre worried youve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before its too late.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 14, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So you’re there for 20 years, from 1988 to 2009. So, you know, 2009, what had happened was I was very burnt out. Well, I really thought and I think some of my associates thought that 2009 was a major market low. They wanted to hear a bear story post 2009. Also, how quantitative was it in 2009 and ’10?

Banks 65

Banks Portfolios Investment Banks Assets 65