A recent article in Institutional Investor lists the top-earning hedge funds. The list is headed by Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest firm with $122 billion under management as…
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]U.S. Government Just Gave Investors Part of their “Super Stock” for Free (Sort Of)…
Burton Malkiel on How to Invest in an Overpriced Market
In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal, Burton Malkiel, author of the celebrated market tome A Random Walk Down Wall Street, wrote that “Investors have reason to worry.”…
Robert Shiller on the Pricey U.S. Market
Nobel Laureate and Yale professor Robert Shiller recently wrote for the Project Syndicate about the comparative levels of market valuation across countries and how, “right now, the United States is…
The "Near Perfect" Investing Environment May End Soon
For the past two decades, government bonds have moved in the opposite direction of equities in the short run but have produced similarly strong gains in the long run, representing…
There is Never a Good Time For Active Management – But Now Might Be One
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — When active managers are struggling relative to their benchmarks, you will often hear the same description of the problem. They will talk about how the current…
Could the Housing Market Be Too Hot?
A recent Bloomberg article reports that homebuilder stocks outperformed all other groups last year, offering different points of view and metrics regarding whether the market might be reaching pre-bubble levels.…
Ray Dalio Says Market Surge Ahead
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, billionaire Ray Dalio told CNBC that the coming tax cut could lead to big gains for the U.S. stock market. “We are…
Soroban Capital is Among Funds Returning Client Money
Soroban Capital Partners is the latest in a “string of managers to return some client money as stock markets have rallied.” This according to a recent article in The Wall Street…
Conventional Fund Manager Evaluation is Wrong
The conventional wisdom regarding evaluating the performance of an asset manager is wrong, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. Typically, the article points out, investors focus…