The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? That new name of the company became Franklin Templeton. So it was Franklin, along with mutual fund pioneer Sir John Templeton. You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Then there's the investments in other public companies, which tallied up to $280 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024. That's down from $350 billion at the end of 2023, because Warren Buffett has been selling stock in companies like Bank of America and Apple. data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $21,285 !* There's a phenomenon called window dressing, which is occasionally indulged in by some of the mutual funds, especially some of the more popular mutual funds out there.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.

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