Value stocks have collectively lagged growth stocks by a decent margin over the past five years, leading many to question whether value approaches still work. In a piece written for…
Category: Behavioral Finance
The Benefits of Self-Doubt
Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio are two of the most well-known, successful investors in the world. And The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig says they have at least one key…
Ned Davis' Keys To Good Investing
Ned Davis Research provides some of the most interesting data and analysis you’ll find in the stock market, and in a recent interview with The Big Picture’s Barry Ritholtz, Ned…
Herro Buying On Fear
Oakmark’s David Herro has been one of the most successful fund managers in the world over the past two decades by keying on unloved stocks, and he is continuing to…
The Perils of Frequent Trading
In a recent column discussing a proposal to reward shareholders who invest in stocks for longer periods of time, The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig highlights some interesting data on…
Winters Says Long Bonds "Going To Get Crushed"
Top fund manager David Winters says the bond party is over, and investors should key on stocks going forward. Winters tells Bloomberg that low-coupon debt is “going to get crushed”.…
Should You Join The Bull Run?
Dalbar, Inc. has been tracking the performance of individual investors for years, and the group’s president says that, with the stock market climbing higher and higher, investors who want to…
How Short-Term Thinking Can Short-Circuit Your Portfolio
Many investors think they are being diligent when they continually check in on how their stocks are doing, but Validea CEO John Reese says they may actually be hurting themselves…
Value Investing Success Hinges On Discipline
Value stocks have been faring quite well recently. But in his “Intelligent Investor” column for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig says that the key to value investing is how…
Sonders on "Rational Exuberance"
Retail investors have, at long last, been coming back to stocks in the first month or so of 2013, and Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders says it’s…