Given the major trauma the events of 2008 and early 2009 had on investors, it might seem hard to blame someone for latching onto the advice of the relatively few…
Tag: Mark Hulbert
Newsletter with Best 3-Decade Track Record Goes All-In
The top-performing market-timing newsletter of the past three decades has turned “aggressively bullish”, Mark Hulbert writes on MarketWatch.com. The Chartist, edited by Dan Sullivan, has the best track record of…
Top Timing Newsletters All Bullish
The seven most successful market-timing newsletters are all bullish, writes MarketWatch’s Mark Hulbert, who tracks investment newsletters’ performance at his Hulbert Financial Digest. Hulbert says he searched his database for…
Hulbert: Fear Is Encouraging
In his latest column for MarketWatch, newsletter-watcher Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest makes an interesting observation about fear and contrarian investing, one that echoes the findings of one of…
The Great Depression "25-Year Recovery" Myth
If you’re worried about stocks taking a period of many, many years to recover following the recent market plunge, Mark Hulbert offers some insightful — and encouraging — news in…
Stocks for The Long Run -- Riskier than Stocks for The Short Run?
In his latest column for The New York Times, Mark Hulbert highlights an interesting new study that examines the concept of long-term risk in the stock market. The study, performed…
Study: Index Funds Top Mutual & Hedge Funds
Index funds may sound boring, but in his latest New York Times column, Mark Hulbert offers some data that indicates index funds may, in the end, actually yield higher net…
Hulbert: Signs of Investors Moving Back Toward Risk
In his latest column for MarketWatch, Mark Hulbert notes that a “dramatic reversal” is taking place in the bond market — and says it’s a reversal that could signal good…
Hulbert: Graham's Approach Endures
In his latest MarketWatch column, Mark Hulbert wonders whether the recent market plunge has shown that “maybe Ben Graham isn’t old-fashioned after all”. Over the past couple decades, Hulbert says,…
Hulbert: Current Crisis is "Textbook Illustration" of Liquidity Shock
In his regular New York Times column, Mark Hulbert looks at the stock market’s behavior since the credit crisis began and references a 2001 academic study to glean some insight…