The decision by the Harvard University endowment fund last year to write-down its nearly $4 billion in natural resource investments by more than 25% has made it the worst performer…
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Stock Market Lessons Learned in 2017
By John Reese (@guruinvestor) — Over the past twelve months, we’ve seen the bull market continue to trudge ahead with highs in many U.S. indexes and growth in various sectors…
Bloomberg on Overbought Market
A recent Bloomberg article reports that in the first week of December, U.S. stocks reached their “most overbought level in more than two decades, according to the relative-strength index.” The…
Google's Top Finance-Related Searches in 2017
Bitcoin, tech stocks and China’s leadership were among the most popular finance-related search topics on Google in 2017, according to data compiled by the Alphabet-owned company and listed in a…
How Elliott Management Always Gets its Way
Paul Singer’s Elliott Management is the world’s biggest, most successful activist hedge fund, according to a recent Fortune article that reveals what it calls the “sophisticated—and often controversial—tactics” that have…
Volatility May Be Down but Ambiguity is Up
A “new measure of market fear” indicates that investors might be more skittish than the current volatility gauges suggest, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. The…
How an Investment Strategy Can Be at the Top and Bottom at the Same Time
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Imagine you’re presented with two investment models. Both hold a concentrated basket of 10 stocks, both are rebalanced monthly and both are built on…
Most Read Posts on Validea’s Guru Investor
Below are links to our most popular posts for this week on Validea’s Guru Investor blog. [1] The Most Expensive Investing Factor [2] Jack Bogle Sees Rough Road for U.S. Pensions [3] Big…
Forecasting is a Folly
The tendency at this time of year for those in the financial industry to make predictions about what’s to come is characterized by Bloomberg columnist Barry Ritholtz as a “prelude to…
Big Investors are Bearish
Nearly seven out of ten investors say stocks are currently overvalued, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. Citing data from Boston Consulting Group’s annual investor survey of…