In a recent article for Harvard Business Review, professor and author Tom Eisenmann shares insights from his new book, Why Startups Fail including findings from his research that “go against…
Goldman Unveils Crypto Trading Team
In a memo to personnel earlier this month, Goldman Sachs announced that a newly created cryptocurrency desk had successfully traded two kinds of bitcoin-linked derivatives. This according to a recent…
Bill Miller Roars Back with Amazon and Bitcoin
In a recent article for Barron’s, author William Green shares an edited version of a conversation with famed investor Bill Miller, whose story is included in his new book, Richer,…
The Voting Machine vs. the Weighing Machine
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.Benjamin Graham (Sort Of) I am…
Some Options for Managing Risk After a Big Market Run
The stock market has had a huge run since last March. That fact, combined with unprecedented government stimulus, the potential for future inflation and other risk factors has many investors…
Weekly Highlights: Finding Value in an Expensive Market, A Deep Dive into Asset Allocation and Timeless Lessons From Warren Buffett
In our weekly summary of the best posts on the Guru Investor blog, Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau discuss the original content we produced and their favorite outside articles we…
Yale’s Iconic Endowment Chief David Swensen Dies at 67
David Swensen, the legendary chief of Yale University’s endowment fund, passed away last week at age 67. This according to an announcement in Chief Investment Officer. “In his 36 years…
An In Depth Look at Asset Allocation with Jim Masturzo of Research Affiliates
We are currently in a very challenging time for building multi-asset portfolios. The 60-40 portfolios is coming off one of its best decades ever, but the expected future returns on…
History Says Big Tech Stocks Could Fall
Today’s FAANG stocks are likened to the Nifty Fifty of the 1960s and 1970s–a group of well-known stocks that “everyone loved despite wildly high valuations that had little basis in…
Investing Like Warren Buffett
A recent Morningstar article outlined investing advice shared by Warren Buffett in a 1985 television interview, reportedly the first time he “candidly described some of the most important rules and…