The Motley Fool
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
A self-directed brokerage account is the same kind you or I might use and has the same types of stock investing options, including individual stocks, exchange-traded funds, options trading, mutual funds, bonds, and real estate investment trusts (REITs).
The Motley Fool
AUGUST 17, 2024
From this perspective, it's not unlike a mutual fund. The remainder reflects the value of all the wholly owned private companies that also help make up the conglomerate. It's not a stock in the traditional sense. Rather, Berkshire is a basket of stocks hand-picked by Warren Buffett and his lieutenants.
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The Motley Fool
JANUARY 17, 2025
When you're investing in managed mutual funds, you're handed a tax bill near the end of every year that you didn't have much control over, and the average managed mutual fund turns over 70% to 100% in a given year. You can decide whether you want to cash in and increase your tax bill this year or not.
The Motley Fool
DECEMBER 5, 2024
SoFi is making SpaceX more accessible SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) announced that it's partnering with alternative investment-fund platform Templum to bring several new investment options to its brokerage customers. of its assets invested in SpaceX and also holds shares of popular private companies such as OpenAI and Epic Games.
The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
This is why Peter Lynch, the legendary investor who crushed the market when running his mutual fund, Fidelity Magellan, has it as one of his top criteria when evaluating a stock. He wants companies that can grow sales and earnings at a double-digit rate for many years. Like SpaceX, it wants to become an end-to-end space company.
The Motley Fool
MARCH 23, 2024
It's an often-forgotten detail about Berkshire Hathaway, but it's not a mutual fund. It's a conglomerate that just so happens to use much of its idle cash to hold stocks of publicly traded companies. Private companies, however, are a compelling alternative to ordinary stocks. And not just right now.
The Big Picture
JULY 11, 2023
RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? That new name of the company became Franklin Templeton. So it was Franklin, along with mutual fund pioneer Sir John Templeton. If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures.
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