Carl Icahn: Market Sell-Off Has Longer to Go
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn recently said that the coronavirus sell-off has left some stocks so cheap they’re being “given away,” according to a CNBC article. Icahn, who was reportedly bearish…
How to Love a Falling Stock Market and Stop Worrying
“When the stock market falls as far and as fast as it has in the last three weeks, it is perfectly natural to be terrified.” This according to a recent…
The E*Trade Deal and the New Investing Game
Morgan Stanley’s $13 billion purchase of E*Trade Financial Corp. “shows how drastically the brokerage industry’s business model has changed,” writes columnist Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article.…
Gold-Backed ETFs Seeing Run of Inflows
Investors across the globe are squirreling assets into gold as the coronavirus outbreak spreads, according to an article in Bloomberg. The article reports that late last month the amount of…
Learning from Buffett and Others During Market Crises
By Justin J. Carbonneau As of this writing, the S&P 500 will have dropped close to 30% in less than 20 trading days. The decline is the fastest drop into…
Berkshire Adds ETFs to Pension Plan
Berkshire Hathaway purchased two ETFs for one of its pension plans in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to a recent article in Bloomberg. The purchases, reported in a regulatory…
Excess Returns, Ep. 15: Some Thoughts on Market Panics
The argument that investors should stay the course during market declines is an easy one to make. It also in most cases is the correct one, since figuring out when…
Active Investors’ Mental Mistakes
Many amateur investors stick to active strategies, even when the evidence shows that “it’s more than likely to be a fool’s errand,” because we allow mental shortcuts to lead us…