The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

Reddit has affectionately dubbed itself "the front page of the internet," serving people with a continuous feed of news, stories, pictures, memes, and -- increasingly in recent years -- largely unvetted musings on the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Why did the stock tank? In short, I'd let familial ties replace due diligence. In hindsight, I'd never have blindly invested in the penny stock (a category I avoid) if the recommendation had come from a stranger, even if that stranger happened to "know" the company founder. It worked great.until the stock market tanked.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Berkshire will likely take its sweet time to make a dent in its cash hoard, potentially even waiting for a dislocation in the overall stock market. Investors, of course, should do their own due diligence and decide for themselves whether they think Berkshire is a good stock. But it's certainly my top pick.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Approximately 60% of women invest in the stock market -- and they're great at it. Why women are better at investing than men The financial news headlines are often full of self-proclaimed stock market experts and hotshot investors who take big risks and make noisy boasts.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During periods when growth stocks are soaring, it's easy to want to pile money into the stock market to take advantage. However, this can cause you to abandon conventional investing wisdom, forego your due diligence, and put you at risk of losing money fast if the stock market reverses.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

If rates were to rise significantly in the coming years, the market value of your baby bond could fall dramatically. Additionally, because baby bonds are traded on stock exchanges, prices of these securities might be vulnerable (or might fluctuate) in conjunction with overall stock market volatility.

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Hedgestone

JULY 7, 2023

How to Protect Yourself While the steps above will help you recover your investments in the event that your stockbroker goes out of business, there are several steps you can take to protect yourself from such a situation: Conduct Due Diligence Before hiring a stockbroker, it is essential that you conduct due diligence.

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BlueMind

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Based on the true-life story of a stockbroker by the name of Jordan Belfort (played by DiCaprio), this movie reveals the enticing nature of the stock market though with a dramatic twist. Perform your due diligence and do some side research, after all, it is your life’s savings that are on the line.

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Ron A. Rhodes

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

stock market was near its all-time highs in late 2021 and many analysts suggested that it was overvalued significantly. Rhoades, JD, CFP(r) The U.S. So, the above…

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

These investments require thorough due diligence, careful selection of companies or projects and a deep understanding of the industry and market dynamics. Fortune Financial evaluates various due diligence areas such as the track record, reputation and fees associated with these platforms to make an informed decision.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

These investments require thorough due diligence, careful selection of companies or projects and a deep understanding of the industry and market dynamics. Fortune Financial evaluates various due diligence areas such as the track record, reputation and fees associated with these platforms to make an informed decision.

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Fortune Financial

MAY 4, 2023

Yet, it’s important to do due diligence and carefully research each investment opportunity before making any decisions. While there are certainly risks involved with any investment, those willing to do their due diligence and make informed decisions can potentially reap the rewards of this exciting and dynamic field.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2023

But you can at least look at it and say, well gosh, if I'm right, and a lot of people are bidding against it, and then there is a short-term catalyst potentially, where if the news turns out to be right and we know in the long run when a stock market it's a weighing machine. I'm not sure that's what we want to do to depositors.

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Ron A. Rhodes

OCTOBER 2, 2023

stock asset classes, and even more significant losses in many… September 30, 2023 After a stellar first half of 2023, the third quarter of 2023 saw losses in most U.S.

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Mr. Money Mustache

JANUARY 29, 2021

Note: if the stock drops fast enough, you can even lose more than all your money. However, since the stock market tends to rise over time, it can still be a valuable option, as long as you use it with great caution. What if a house comes up on the market and I want to be able to spring on it quickly?”

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When I read the first draft of the private fund rule, my first reaction was that the SEC must have subpoenaed a few hundred operational due diligence reports written by knowledgeable ODD practitioners across the industry. The lagged valuation or stale pricing in private markets is well known. Total Stock Market Index fell 19.1%

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2024

Asit Sharma: I think that investors should have small percentage tranches of different investments Mary, even if you think that the stock market will have superior returns versus alternatives. So overall, I would say it's a supplement, not a replacement for some good old due diligence. When the PGI is above 11.5%

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In one year, the index has added a whopping $13 trillion in market cap.… pic.twitter.com/PzADrMFaUH — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 11, 2024 The stock market which is a leading indicator sure isn't pointing to a recession any time soon. This is already DOUBLE the average annual return since 1957.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

But a weaker stock market and rising interest rates caused large institutional investors and pension funds, the largest backers of venture firms, to pull back. billion ($3.72 billion) from limited partners during the first quarter of 2023, down from €7.4

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

The 77-year-old billionaire told the Financial Times that big asset managers had competed aggressively to lend to the largest private equity groups as money poured into their coffers in 2020 and 2021, raising questions over the due diligence the funds conducted when they agreed to provide multibillion-dollar loans.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

All the utilities and railroads at the beginning of the stock market were thought stable enough. So, 00:22:17 [Speaker Changed] So when you are evaluating a company, this is more than EBITDA or earnings per share or something like that, you are really doing your due diligence on the management team and how effective they are.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And then, my follow-up question is just on your, your portrayal of the industry, certainly more sanguine than, I don't know how to describe it, the anxiety-infused mood of the stock market that's just devaluing lithium equities right now. We will not be heading into the debt or the equity markets to fund Nemaska.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The three stocks mentioned above outperformed the stock market favorite, Nvidia, indicating how the market prices future growth prospects pretty accurately over the long run. To quote Ben Graham , "In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine."

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 1, 2023

A unique collaboration to build sustainable finance Innocap, a global leader in managed account platforms, will act as the investment fund manager for the Investi Fund and will provide a rigorous institutional framework for due diligence, risk management, and ongoing monitoring. This will not be your typical ESG fund.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And the way we think about it, our PMs also serve as traders, and so they’re working very closely day by day, making sure that Total Stock Market Index Fund and all of our other equity index funds are minimizing the tracking error. What goes into making changes in stock memberships? They create the benchmark.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This lack of fairness, transparency, objectivity and the ideology the enshrines the offering up of stock market competitiveness as a sacrificial cow of wokeness is yet another reason why ESG sucks. And if they need to boost their price back up, they can buy back stock. I like to sometimes imagine the stock market is a circle.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

But it’s not gonna be the stock market in 0:40:07.4 These advisors certify this guy, I’m gonna trust him too, and I’m gonna do whatever he tells me, so there’s an inverse relationship between the number of questions you typically get about a deal and the client’s network, the lower… 0:37:18.6

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: You know, and what we were doing was basically advising Goldman clients how to take their own family businesses back off the stock market. KLINSKY: There had been stagflation, where the stock market was lower in ‘81 than it had been in 1968. And you know, incredibly depressed market, super high interest rates.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2025

With the stock market hitting all-time highs on many occasions last year, investors have debated for months whether it is overvalued. If those weren't clear enough signs that the team at Berkshire thought the market was overvalued, another major indicator was also flashing red. Just make sure to do your due diligence.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Vestcor’s investment and risk management teams consider responsible investment issues when conducting their initial investment due diligence and through their ongoing monitoring activities. The executive summary and full paper are available here. Read full article here and more from Reuters here.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2025

Keep cash ready for bargains No one likes to envision a market crash, but there are benefits for investors in those times, too. Taking a step back, market crashes and corrections are part and parcel of investing in the stock market, and investors need to embrace those possibilities, which are really eventualities.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. DAMODARAN: Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2025

The stock market will be closed Thursday of next week. I have some Fintech apps that I use myself, but buyer beware, do your due diligence before you place your funds anywhere. The US stock market has outperformed every other global market for really good reason over the last call it decade.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 20, 2025

per cent, mostly because private equity returns lagged the stock markets performance, and real estate assets such as office buildings and shopping malls continued to struggle. On Thursday, Teachers reported a 9.4-per-cent per-cent return for its portfolio in 2024, bouncing back from a weak 1.9-per-cent per-cent return in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 18, 2025

If we go back, several decades, the entire stock market was ruled by retail investors. Price is my due diligence, as Buffett would say, on the initial purchase, more so. In a perfect world, we would all find deep value stocks that turn into growth stocks. Buck Hartzell: That's interesting.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2025

In a recent post on X, Ives predicted that stocks would jump 25% in 2025, building on its gains over the past two years. Despite some concerns that an AI bubble may be forming, signs are generally pointing to a continued rally in AI stocks. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 7, 2025

Barron’s ) If Youre Nearing Retirement, Heres What to Do With Your Money Now : Market downturns like this one often tempt people to make rash decisions, but it is better to have a plan. CNN ) How Has Private Credit Affected Valuations Across Debt Markets? CIO ) Who Will Be the Next Larry Fink? Every single one.

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