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.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

If you want to be a more active investor than that, and aim for even higher returns, you might engage in both active and passive investing. Devote a significant portion of your money to index funds, and the rest to carefully selected individual stocks -- or whatever you believe in most. Want to aim for more?

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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%

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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 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. People believe markets are efficient, they start to passively invest.

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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. Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor Wes Gray Alpha Architect Feb 2, 2016 3.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

That investment has historically been four times more volatile than the stock market. If you're a more active investor, you probably want to pay attention to liquidity, which is generally measured by daily volume and the bid-ask spread. A Bitcoin ETF is not diversified, it just holds one investment which is Bitcoin.

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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 Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

On to Number 7, still here in the Foolish Moves category, smarter moves made by people who are already active investors. All I do is share what I know with great passion and urgency and hope that they too will do the smart and safe thing, like getting their money in the stock market and leaving it there for decades.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In terms of kind of what this means for active and passive, I think there’s a lot to that. But as an active investor, I can say I’m a big fan of passive investing. bond market, the broad U.S. So I think there’s a real benefit to the passive investing, the ETF trend. And when we look at the broad U.S.

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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

There’s probably more volatility on tap for stock markets, Graham said, adding he’s “cautiously optimistic” about what lies ahead for the fund this year as certain sectors in some parts of the world appear ready to soar. 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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

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. I think some people think of the stock market like they don’t really view it as people in a circle trading.

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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

Although I think The Motley Fool guys will put it in just as much time and energy as many of the real estate investors should take it very seriously in trying to find that Alpha. Chris Hutchins: There's a question, Matt, you said 10% average returns on the stock market highest returning unlevered asset-class.

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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

Antti Ilmanen and I wrote a paper, I forget the exact title, I think one of them was called Sin a Little, where we say, timing the market, and this applies to the bond market as well as the stock market, is an investing sin. We’re active investors. We think we make the market a more efficient place.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2025

Investors need to understand their liquidity requirements and have reliable sources to meet demands, including during stressed markets. Focus on the main game 2024 was a tough year for active investors. Being forced to sell when assets are at depressed values crystallizes losses. But this is nothing new.

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