The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

In today's episode, Jason talks with Motley Fool host Mary Long about early investing successes, what's shaped his investing philosophy, and how golf changed his life. Want to share your own investing journey with us? To get started investing, check out our quick-start guide to investing in stocks. Was it a hobby?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 11, 2024

One of the most accomplished investors in recent history is Bill Gross. Known as the "bond king," Gross made a name for himself as the founder of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) in the 1970s. While he is no longer part of PIMCO, Gross is still an active investor.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Fear about inflation, meanwhile, often results in investors looking for investments that can provide inflation protection. Investors are seeking safe harbors There are no perfect investments. This is why many investors prefer owning precious metals miners. Gold has been a beneficiary.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

Investing early and often is an excellent method for building generational wealth. Moreover, investing even a relatively small sum of money can be a good starting point. If I were starting my portfolio from scratch today, here's how I would invest $500 in the stock market. Only then can you set yourself up for financial success.

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Private Equity Professional

JULY 10, 2024

Swander Pace Capital has made an investment in Inovata Foods , a maker of private label frozen entrées. Our employees are dedicated to quality, and we continually invest in the robust capabilities of our manufacturing facilities,” said Chad Parsons. Sectors of interest include food and beverage, body and wellness, and home and family.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Lots of self-made millionaires became wealthy not because they made tons of income, but because they invested wisely. In fact, investing $100 per month in one simple exchange-traded fund (ETF) will do the trick. You need to be able to make this monthly investment for at least 45 consecutive years. You can do the same.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2023

Billionaire investor Ron Baron has been an active investor for 53 years. Given his decades of investing experience, Baron's advice on the markets tends to carry some weight. It's this truism that will help you beat inflation if you put it to use by investing. Its Baron Partners Fund has delivered a 19.3%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) like Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEMKT: VYM) provide a simple way to invest broadly in a key theme -- in this case, stocks with a high dividend yield -- to generate passive income. However, if you are a dividend investor, Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF could offer a similar solution with an income twist.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

It's this third component that can often prove trickiest for some investors. What they need , however, are reliable investments with staying power. Multiple studies suggest the opposite is true, in fact -- greater activity actually diminishes your net returns. That'll require an annual investment of around $45,000.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

As it turns out, the wealthier people are, the less likely it is that their investments will mostly consist of conventional stocks. These private investments are (by definition) not readily accessible to the average investor. But how do you put some of your money into these investments? The problem?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

When researching potential stock buys, dividend investors often look first at a stock's dividend yield. It's understandable, but it should only be the starting point on the investing journey. Investors also need to dig into the details to understand the full story behind an investment before they buy it.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

More retail investors who don't have access to buying partial shares of stocks might consider buying Home Depot stock if shares are traded at a lower price. Moreover, a lower stock price makes it more affordable to buy a covered call (which generally requires buying in 100-share lots), which could draw interest from more active investors.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For more active investors that could be an attractive investment thesis. Should you invest $1,000 in Devon Energy right now? Before you buy stock in Devon Energy, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2023

The distribution will represent the majority of an investor's return. So the big question for investors here is about distribution safety. So, too, is an investment grade rated balance sheet. Most dividend investors are probably going to default to a reliable dividend, so Enterprise is likely to be the winner here.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

After you have an emergency fund, you should start investing. If you prefer active management, you might go with Vanguard Wellington Fund (VWELX), which has a similar stock/bond target, but human beings pick the stocks. More active investors can pick their own stocks and/or bonds. Why did you choose to sell an investment?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

For most of the market's more active investors, however, picking stocks can be a lot of fun. Take investment banking as an example. In the meantime, investment banking fees were up 18% year over year and 20% higher than Q4's tally, in step with a slight worldwide rebound from last year's lull in M&A and IPO activity.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2023

The bad news is that cellular technology is constantly improving, thus requiring constant investment. Management invests heavily in research and development, and, at least historically, that has resulted in new technologies that the company leveraged to boost growth across its diversified business. That's the good news.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Nvidia recently disclosed which stocks it has invested in, and while it reported a sizable position in chip designer Arm Holdings , the list also included a couple of notable healthcare companies focused on next-gen technologies. million in cash over the course of its operating activities. During that time, it also burned through $213.7

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot, has become a household name, and tech giant Microsoft invested billions into the business, giving it an advantage over Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) , which appear to be lagging behind when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI). What should investors do?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 19, 2023

Check out these recent headlines about the classic 60/40 investment strategy 1 : The 60-40 Investment Strategy Is Back After Tanking Last Year BlackRock Ditches 60/40 Portfolio in New Regime of High Inflation Why a 60/40 Portfolio Is No Longer Good Enough The 60-40 portfolio is back Sorry, but all of these headlines utterly miss the point.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Toronto-Dominion Bank tarnished its image Toronto-Dominion Bank's stock price has been hovering around the $60 point, so even a $500 investment would easily get you in the door with this Canadian bank. Where to invest $1,000 right now? You could also easily argue that it is the riskiest investment. Carey for investors.

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Blackstone News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

With these investments, Blackstone will have a sizeable $1.3 billion hotel portfolio in Japan, consisting of high-quality properties across some of the countrys top tourist destinations including Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Okinawa, and Fukuoka, and cementing its position as one of the largest foreign hospitality investors in the market.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 6, 2023

We view this market as an especially attractive one for our approach to credit investing, which emphasizes bottom-up financial and structural analysis with a focus on downside protection, and we look forward to continuing to build on our strong momentum.” The firm employs a flexible, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach.

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Private Equity Professional

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The firm’s new fund is 30% larger than the firm’s 2019 and fully invested $4.1 New York City-headquartered Harvest Partners was founded in 1981 and is an active investor in companies with $300… This content is for members only. Harvest Partners has closed its ninth fund, Harvest Partners IX LP, above target with $5.3

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

Still, most founders wouldn’t assume to involve investors and advisors in a regular “board-like” meeting if they didn’t have to—and even those that do may not know how to run it or what to prepare for it. Either way, adding a couple of invested parties who do this on a full-time basis can be enormously helpful.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It aims to invest ticket sizes ranging from €10m to €50m, including reinvestments. Launched in June 2019, Brienne III, the previous vintage of Tikehau Capital’s private equity cybersecurity strategy successfully raised €175m and strategically invested in 15 companies within the European cyber ecosystem.

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The investments we made in the company’s global capabilities and capacity will continue to unlock even greater opportunities for the business, and the entire Greenbriar team is confident in STS’s bright future,” added Mr. Blitzer. The firm manages over $64 billion in equity capital and was founded in 1993.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The sector is generally considered a good place for conservative investors to fish for investment ideas because of the overall consistent business performance of the industry's constituents. And it has not had much success in finding a replacement product, with costly write-offs associated with investments in vaping and marijuana.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

But it's also important to know that many of the wealthiest investors in the world own exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, as well. Warren Buffett is no exception, and well-known hedge fund manager Ray Dalio is another example of a multibillionaire who invests in ETFs. He recently stepped down from his active role.)

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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. Here are two important things worth keeping in mind about that company, and Berkshire's investment in it. Placed against this, the Floor & Decor investment was relatively small potatoes.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2024

I'm a pretty active investor. High-quality, high-yielding dividend stocks are my go-to investment. Realty Income's internal growth drivers -- rising rents and using retained cash flow after paying dividends to fund new investments -- should increase its adjusted funds from operations ( FFO ) by about 2% per share each year.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2023

This has led investors and analysts to believe that further rate hikes could be coming later this year, which will promote lending activity. 10 stocks we like better than Walmart When our analyst team has an investing tip, it can pay to listen. and Walmart wasn't one of them!

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Blackstone and JP Morgan Chase’s healthcare investment arm Morgan Health will take minority stakes. Marlin and New Mountain are both active investors in healthcare. Blackstone and Morgan Health also have several active investments in employer-sponsored care. The 2023 MM+M.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The fall of research analysts, and the rise of passive investing. An investing lesson from Charlie Munger. To get started investing, check out our quick-start guide to investing in stocks. Where to invest $1,000 right now When o ur analyst team has a stock tip, it can pay to listen.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 1, 2024

“KKR has traditionally been a very active investor in the enterprise software industry, and we have a differentiated point of view and playbooks that we can apply to help businesses (like Broadcom’s EUC unit) grow. After the deal closed, Broadcom said it would seek to divest the end-user computing unit.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2024

As an income investor, you need to make sure you are shouldering risks that are worth taking. AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) and its nearly 14% yield have a very real chance of eventually letting you down. Carey (NYSE: WPC) have let investors down, too, but they both look like they're on an upward trajectory. wasn’t one of them.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I love investing in companies that pay sizable dividends that steadily increase. Altria has invested heavily to acquire companies outside of the (thankfully) declining cigarette sector. It has made several investments in makers of smokeless tobacco products, including paying nearly $3 billion for e-vapor company NJOY last year.

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