Do you and your spouse (or significant other) share exactly the same opinion on financial matters, such as spending, saving, borrowing and investing? If so, you’re in a very small minority of couples.
At the top end of the predicted range of $28 to $35 per share, Facebook would raise up to $13.6 billion and sport a market value just shy of $100 billion.
At a recent price of $600 per share, Apple boasts a market value just shy of $560 billion, making it by far the most valuable company on the planet.
While we clearly can’t control the economy or the markets, our behavior is up to us.
It is impossible to make an intelligent assessment of the investment merit of an asset without accounting for its price.
“Scorecasting” authors say teams consistently place excessive value on high draft picks and routinely overpay, in terms of current and future picks, to move up the draft order.
I eagerly await the pearls of investing wisdom in Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders. His 2011 missive did not disappoint.
Pretend someone comes in one night and sells all your investments. … Would you rebuild the same portfolio you had before?
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Investors who heeded that advice during the scary decline last August and September have been rewarded.
Don’t let conventional decision-making reduce your chances of winning the investment “game.”
There are some highly experienced and skilled investors who make unconventional predictions I think are worth paying attention to.
Every once in a while I come across timeless advice like Davis Advisors’ “The Wisdom of Great Investors: Insights from Some of History’s Greatest Investment Minds.”
Like many, I eagerly await the publication of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports, which always contain timeless lessons from Warren Buffett.
Unlike bank deposits or CDs, investments in money market funds are not guaranteed.
There may be a $5 or $1,000 bill lying on the sidewalk, but it’s up to you to pick it up.
Don’t let the excitement and envy of somebody else’s hitting an improbable jackpot blind you to the cold, hard, mathematical probabilities of long-term investment success.
Sentiment has been crushed. Some investors have lost faith, thrown in the towel, and abandoned the stock market.
There is an unconventional school of thought that says the recent Great Recession was … a balance-sheet recession.
The “Morningstar Style Box” was introduced by the Chicago-based research firm in 1992 to help investors and advisers determine the investment style of a fund.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be smart enough to sell at the top and nimble enough to buy back in at the bottom?
