Speaking recently with CNBC, Mario Gabelli, chairman and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management, offered thoughts on a number of investing topics. Gabelli considers himself an investor, not a speculator. Gabelli…
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Consuelo Mack On the Best Advice from Investors like Buffett, Templeton and Bernstein
On the WSJ Watching Your Wealth podcast, Consuelo Mack, anchor and executive producer of WealthTrack, shares some of the best investment advice from her many years of investing and journalism…
Good Strategies Look Beyond Earnings
…Validea CEO John P. Reese says that good investing goes beyond looking at earnings-related metrics. “Earnings don’t always tell the whole story,” Reese writes. “In fact, oftentimes other metrics can…
Market Shifting From Momentum to Value
…Hough explains, “momentum investing refers to the practice of buying what’s already going up” and can be used within a broader strategy, such as by “looking for recent stock momentum…
Emotions and Biases Play Huge Role in Bad Investment Decisions
…In other words, insights from behavioral economics and finance explain why people don’t often behave rationally when investing. For example, amateur investors believe they can outperform the professionals, largely because…
Faber talks Strategies, Value in Emerging Markets and More
…of these areas and taking at least a one year time horizon, if not longer, when investing in these beaten regions and countries around the world. Faber also talks about…
The Winning Investment Strategy A Top Value Manager Doesn't Want You To Use
…much, while those with high P/Es are priced for perfection. He prefers investing in those low-expectation firms, provided they are financially sound, because even modest improvement in their performance can…
Creativity in Investment Process
A recent article in the CFA Institute’s enterprising Investor explores the role of creativity in investing, highlighting legendary investor Peter Lynch’s comment to “invest in what you know,” but also…
Buffett on Bubbles: A “This Can’t Go Wrong” Mentality Gets Investors in Trouble
…whole lot more trouble in investing with a sound premise than with a false premise.’” Buffett explained: “When you have a sound premise, you may also have a ‘This can’t…
Adding Alpha Through Opportunistic Investment
…investing – seeking to take advantage of market volatility and dislocations.” He outlines two approaches to developing such an approach within a firm – internal and external. He notes that…