…last hundred years in investing, there’s only bee one other decade in which the market was down, and that was in the ’30s. So I’m in a camp that says…
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Barron's Top Advisors
…their comments, you might want to keep these two quotes below in mind: “The four most dangerous words in investing are, ‘This time it’s different.’” — John Templeton “The underlying…
Risk and Asset Allocation
In a piece written for Forbes’ Intelligent Investing section, David Serchuk today offers some interesting data on risk and portfolio management. One point made by several of those Serchuk interviewed…
Portfolio Size: How Big Is Big Enough?
…100 to 150 stocks produce better risk-adjusted returns over time than funds holding only 30 or 35 stocks. But, notes Wherry, Joel Greenblatt — one of the investing greats upon…
How Your Brain Can Drag You Down -- and How You Can Overcome It
…kind of impulsive response to reward,’ says Dr. Hariri, ‘is crucial to success in many aspects of life’ — like investing, where impatience often lowers returns.” Other tests — including…
Mortimer on "The Most Dangerous Words in Investing"
…readers today. One key thought from Mortimer, when asked whether his advice takes into account potential unprecedented events or situations: “The most dangerous words in investing are ‘it’s different this…
The Two-Pronged O'Shaughnessy Attack
…the book on quantitative investing strategies might be an exaggeration — but not much of one. Over the years, O’Shaughnessy has compiled an anthology of research on the historical performance…
Dreman: Yes, It's a Depression -- So Buy
One of the investing world’s pre-eminent contrarians, David Dreman, writes in Forbes that the U.S. is indeed in a depression — not a recession — but says it’s also a…
Whitman Finding Bargains through Graham & Dodd, with a Twist
…tenet of Third Avenue’s ‘safe and cheap’ method of value investing”, according to Folk. Folk writes that Sycamore Networks Inc. (SCMR) is “the most compelling example” of a U.S. net-net…
Gross: Investing "Revolution" Is On
In his April market commentary on PIMCO’s web site, bond guru Bill Gross says that we’ve entered a new world of economics and investing, one in which “there should be…