The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Perhaps most seminally, he wrote two books, the first of which was, You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, which I put on the rankings as the best named book of all time. Then another, The Little Book That Beats the Market. The only rate the Fed can cut is the Fed funds rate. The Fed is going to cut rates.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Energy and natural resources was the only sector to record an increase in deal value and deal count as PE funds are increasingly focused on energy-transition related assets. Tough market conditions pushed some investors to the sidelines in 2023. Investors raising new funds continued to shift their focus away from Asia.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

All this is all happening while people say they are downright miserable about the market. Even those who are active investors reflect sentiment at depressed levels. That’s fine, because the dichotomy in fact implies further market gain, says George Smith, portfolio strategist at LPL Research.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

An exchange traded fund is a type of ETP, but ETFs generally are regulated by the Investment Company Act of 1940 and importantly, have certain diversification requirements. That investment has historically been four times more volatile than the stock market. They are basically, stock ETFs. Moving on my second question.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Microsoft is at the point where its market cap is worth $428 for every single person on the planet. The Magnificent Seven is now about 30% of the US stock market. For the people who aren't thinking about it, what does this mean for the average investor or, how about the people who like to pick stocks?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Now try forecasting the economy or the stock market with 1000s of factors and millions of people, all reacting to each other. Practicality : The best investment strategy is not the one that produces the greatest returns, but rather, the one the investor can most easily live with.

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Quiet Growth

MAY 30, 2023

The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is a financial theory that posits that financial markets are “efficient”, meaning that prices reflect all available information at any given time. Market anomalies: EMH doesn’t account for market anomalies such as stock market bubbles and crashes.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

I will be investing every penny into stocks, and maybe a dividend, exchange-traded fund dividend, ETF. On to Number 7, still here in the Foolish Moves category, smarter moves made by people who are already active investors. Plus it's a fun way to gamify an otherwise boring activity, slowly paying off my house early.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. BALCHUNAS: … where you had to call pensions and tried to pitch them on hedge funds …. He was the P.R.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

per cent for the fiscal year ended March 31, ending the year with net fund assets of $570 billion compared to $539 billion a year earlier. The CPP fund has a 10-year net return of 10 per cent. Since its inception in 1999, CPPIB has contributed $386 billion in cumulative net income to the fund. per cent return; it earned 6.8

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And so there was a lot of need on the active mutual fund friends. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. RITHOLTZ: So these are stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds? I know of them from their mutual fund rating business.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2025

This is exactly what makes it a bargain in today's market environment. This is what makes Berkshire Hathaway stock a bargain right now No one can predict where the stock market will head next. Buying Berkshire stock is nearly akin to buying a diversified stock market index fund.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

.* They just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now… See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of May 28, 2024 This video was recorded on May 18, 2024. Although there are some funds and some modern crowdfunding platforms that do allow you to do that.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the driving forces behind stock market returns right now. Nvidia is the leading supplier of graphics processors for data centers, which are critical for AI development, and the company's incredible sales growth has propelled its stock to incredible gains over the past 12 months.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2025

The S&P SPIVA semi-annual report tracks the performance of many retail funds across multiple geographies and market segments. It has consistently found that most actively managed funds have underperformed their benchmarks over short- and long-term periods, and across geographies. But this is nothing new.

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