Nature vs. nurture — it’s an eternal debate, and, as Jason Zweig shows in his most recent Wall Street Journal column, scientific research shows it’s a question that can have…
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Mortimer on "The Most Dangerous Words in Investing"
Charles Schwab Investment Management’s Chief Investment Officer Jeff Mortimer offered some interesting thoughts on the current market and keys to a good investment strategy in a Q&A with Washington Post…
Top Fund Manager Eyes Small-Caps
John E. Deysher, whose Pinnacle Value Fund has outperformed 99% of its peers year-to-date and over the past year, three years, and five years, tells Barron’s that he’s been putting…
The Two-Pronged O'Shaughnessy Attack
In every other issue of my investment newsletter, The Validea Hot List, I look in detail at one of the computerized guru models I run on Validea.com. In this week’s…
Glassman: Choose History Over Hunches
In his latest Kiplinger’s column, former Under Secretary of State James K. Glassman says that — in spite of all of the troubling developments that have hit the economy and…
Oberweis on the Bullish Turn, Small Caps and ... Han Solo?
Newsletter guru and money manager Jim Oberweis writes for Forbes.com that, although the economy will continue to struggle, he’s bullish — and that profitable growth stocks will be “ideally positioned”…
Dreman: Yes, It's a Depression -- So Buy
One of the investing world’s pre-eminent contrarians, David Dreman, writes in Forbes that the U.S. is indeed in a depression — not a recession — but says it’s also a…
Farrell Calls a Bottom (and Rips "Dr. Doom")
In his latest MarketWatch column, Paul Farrell takes Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini to task — and gives six reasons why he thinks the stock market has bottomed. Roubini, the New…
Whitman Finding Bargains through Graham & Dodd, with a Twist
The Financial Post of Canada takes an interesting look today at the Benjamin-Graham-esque approach that longtime market-beater Marty Whitman uses to pick value stocks. According to The Post’s Levi Folk,…
Gross: Investing "Revolution" Is On
In his April market commentary on PIMCO’s web site, bond guru Bill Gross says that we’ve entered a new world of economics and investing, one in which “there should be…