The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Rather, it's the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) -- an exchange-traded fund meant to merely mirror the performance of the stock market's primary benchmark index, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC). To relatively new investors the suggestion seems outrageous. and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust wasn't one of them!

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

These private investments are (by definition) not readily accessible to the average investor. You can own these very same kinds of investments for less than $1,000, letting you mirror the returns that many high-net-worth households achieve. like the overall stock market. But they're more accessible than you might think.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The hefty yield, which is likely to make up the vast majority of your return, gets you three quarters of the way to the around-10% historical return of the broader stock market. That's not a bad starting point for a more conservative investor. The company's hefty 7.5% The Motley Fool recommends Dominion Energy.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Tough market conditions pushed some investors to the sidelines in 2023. The number of active investors in Asia Pacific fell 25% compared with 2022 and the share of deal value contributed by the region’s top 20 funds increased to 47%, up significantly over the prior five-year average of 31%.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How can we tell if the things we do as investors have a net positive impact on our future returns? But tell the same people that returns for both indices over the calendar years 2022-23 were flat – about 0.0% – and you can bet their response is radically different. Framing matters a great deal. As I said, it’s complex.

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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. The fundamental implication of EMH is that barring insider trading, no amount of analysis can give an investor an edge over other investors.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

return for year: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board posted a net return of 1.3 The CPP fund has a 10-year net return of 10 per cent. That beat the fund’s reference portfolio (an internal benchmark it sets for itself), which had a return of just 0.1

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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. So what's the problem?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

NORTON: And he saw it as a really positive good thing for the individual investor to have access to these top money managers. But he found that Morningstar was making a lot of — or, excuse me, individual investors were making decisions based solely on trailing returns, which, as we all know, is not a good investing strategy.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

RITHOLTZ: These are dragging on returns and …. And — but then the — the — basically, the stock market goes into a bear market. RITHOLTZ: … most of (inaudible) — Warren is an honest steward of active investing. And over the decades, that investment returns pretty stable.

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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. SPXTR data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

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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

We think value plus momentum has a really good risk-adjusted return, makes money over the long term. High beta stocks are supposed to return more, on average, than low beta stocks. RITHOLTZ: So what I was going to ask you is if low beta returns just about the same or almost the same as high beta, why the complexity?

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2025

In years like this, it is good to remember that the primary objective of most investors is not beating the market. Most investors are looking to generate total returns at a level of risk that they are comfortable with. Total returns pay the bills. Net value add is rarely the main game.

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