A mere three years after graduating from Princeton, John Rogers launched Ariel Investments in 1983, making it the oldest Black-owned investment firm in the United States, with $16 billion in…
Investing $10,000 Right Now
While investors are understandably feeling nervous in these uncertain times, it’s a good time to branch outside of the U.S., say four top money managers who were interviewed by Bloomberg.…
This Bear Market Is Unheard Of, Says Jim Chanos
In an interview with CNBC, Chanos & Co. founder Jim Chanos says the current bear market is doing something he’s never seen before in his career: trading “above nine times…
Where Valuations Stand After the Market's Strong Start to 2023
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — 2023 has been a great year for the market so far. Despite the negative sentiment coming into the year, falling inflation and interest rates coupled with…
The Most Important Investing Lesson: Rick Ferri
Rick Ferri shares the one lesson he would teach the average investor. See full interview
Investing Shorts: Investors Want to Be in the Red Room - They Should Want the Green One
Justin Carbonneau and Jack Forehand discuss the reasons that momentum investing works. See full interview with Cole Smead
Markets Are Too Overconfident About Inflation, Says Krugman
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is worried that investors are getting too relaxed about inflation and that as financial conditions loosen, inflation will rise again. “The markets are pricing in…
A Good Start to 2023 For Bonds
The U.S. bond market has been off to a good start for 2023, making investors hopeful that the brutality of 2022 is behind them, reports an article in The Wall…
Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Loses $164 Billion
Amidst the war in Europe, rampant inflation, and elevated interest rates, one of the world’s largest investors lost -14.1% last year. Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global reported a loss of…
Leveraged-Debt Machine Is Failing
As the cheap-money era comes to an end, some of the biggest banks in the world are being forced into major writedowns on the merger and acquisition deals they did…