…support or accreditation. If big companies like Amazon and Facebook were to adopt such standards, he says, “other companies would follow.” Taxation: According to Greenblatt, increasing the earned income tax…
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GMO’s Jeremy Grantham on What America Needs Now
…Liquidity concerns are a function of interest coverage, but today’s low rates make it a “very advantageous time for governments and corporations to borrow and invest. Yet many of them…
2020 May Still See Strong Fourth Quarter Gains
…in the marketplace,” adding that she’s leaning toward cautious optimism and that the bulk of gains typically come in November and December. Bell noted, “Volatility is going to continue to…
Value Bulls Were Hoping for Democratic Sweep
…sure thing. The article notes that historical trends favor value improving: In seven of the last nine presidential elections, it reports, factors like value and volatility have outperformed their historical…
Tobias Carlisle Offers Tips: Playing the Market’s Mean Reversion
…Economic Times. Carlisle, CIO at Acquirers Funds and author of the book Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Companies, argues that investors looking…
Don’t Take Election Stress Out on Your Investments
…“hedge fund stars” as they rode the rebound from the March low. “But if those investors think their returns are the result of immense skill and not a bit of…
Brown University Became Top Endowment in Ivy League
…Journal. The approach, which has included hiring private detectives to investigate money managers and backing unproven startup funds, has led to top results for Joseph Dowling over his seven-year run…
An Investing Lesson from Harvard’s Below-Average Endowment Performance
…pioneer argued that index funds are tough to beat—so, Hulbert notes, “it’s hard to justify paying the salaries of a large high-priced staff to run the endowment” at Harvard. Hulbert…
The Market Bubble Will Burst, Says Jeremy Grantham
…by investors which, he said, “was not lacking in the rally off the COVID low.” “My bet,” said Grantham, “is that reality will catch up with the high P/Es.” Other…
Defaults are Surging in Four Sectors
…were aggressively increasing their debt levels as interest rates remained low. The U.S. consumer products sector is the hardest hit, reportedly accounting for 81 percent of global defaults versus about…