Given the smooth upward trajectory stocks have had for the past 15 years, it’s easy to think that the almost-20% decline so far in 2022 is just a blip. But…
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What Buffett Is Buying
The continuing sell-off has given Warren Buffett a golden opportunity to buy the dip and increase the holdings at Berkshire Hathaway, putting to use the billions of dollars the company…
Burry Reveals Bet Against Apple
Last quarter, Michael Burry of Scion Asset Management and “Big Short” fame made a bearish bet against Apple and acquired several other stocks, according to a recently-revealed SEC filing, reports…
Harnessing Empirical Finance in Long-Term Investing Strategies with Dimensional’s Savina Rizova
In this episode we talk with Dimensional Fund Advisors Director of Research Savina Rizova. We discuss her amazing story, from growing up in communist Bulgaria to recently being named one…
The Importance of Flows
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — I am a fundamental investor. I like to look at the value of a stock in the same way I would look at any business. Ultimately,…
Why The Yield Curve Matters
In a video shared on the Fisher Investments YouTube channel, Ken Fisher explains the yield curve and why it’s important. There’s been a lot of conversation about the yield curve…
Investing’s Four Horsemen
In a piece for Morningstar Magazine, Don Phillips, managing director at Morningstar, discusses the ever-present threats to portfolios, known as “the four horsemen of the investor apocalypse”: complexity, concentration, leverage,…
Emerging Markets Are The Place to Be
For the best opportunities, look outside the U.S. and China, says Ruchir Sharma, the chairman of Rockefeller International, in an interview with Barron’s. Sharma will soon be launching a new…
A Bull Market In Macro Doom
In an opinion piece for Bloomberg, Jared Dillian writes that the niche of investment research he calls “macro doom” has become quite popular of late, with everyone predicting a bust…
It Pays To Automate Your Finances
As inflation climbs to a 40-year high and the stock market declines, investors will be tempted to protect their decreasing account balances, but don’t act too rashly, advises an article…