Reality TV has come to Wall Street. This drama is centered on Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and the players are activist investors led by the self-important Bill Ackman, gobs of other hedge funds and short-sellers.
Fund investors endured harrowing plunges in 2015. Absent a year-end rally, returns will be disappointingly modest.
Investors who can block out the emotional influences that frequently swirl about the markets can significantly improve their investment results.
The road to reaching long-term outperformance is bumpy, but that doesn’t make these short-term periods of weakness any easier to take.
The overwhelming evidence shows that, to retain purchasing power through your retirement, say perhaps the next 20 years, a significant commitment to the stock market is safer than retreating to cash or bonds.
The college represents the most important investment a student will make, so you want to maximize your expected return by carefully weighing all the factors.
The recent volatility in the stock market has exposed problems with the fast-growing Wall Street products called exchange-traded funds.
Regardless of the market’s short-term gyrations, stock values 20 years from now should be considerably higher than today.
For the vast majority of investors, bear-market funds just don’t make sense.
We’re biologically wired to avoid losses at any cost, and the bad memories of 2008 are still fresh. So it is perfectly understandable that investors are having a visceral reaction and feeling a great deal of anxiety. By the same token, we believe investors must overcome these biases in order to succeed.
Commodities are in the midst of a nasty bear market, with prices spiraling lower.
Greece shoulders most of the blame for its third trip to the brink of default in five years, but it takes two to tango and Greece had a most willing accomplice: the lenders themselves.
Plenty of voices are chiming in with ideas on what to do with the state’s $2.14 billion reserves. So, here is another suggestion—make a sizable contribution to the Indiana Pension Stabilization Fund to help offset the woefully underfunded Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund.
The combination of higher EPS and company buying usually provides a short-term boost to the stock. This makes Wall Street happy, keeps the activists at bay, and helps management enhance the value of its stock options and meet bonus targets.
As the world frets over the events in Greece, a giant debt default closer to home is barely raising eyebrows.
The U.S. stock market has historically rebounded well and quickly from bad world news.
Despite the defiant results of the Greek referendum that rejected further economic austerity in return for a cash infusion to deal with their debt crisis, it appears U.S. investors are betting the situation will be adequately solved.
Golf is not only a metaphor for life, but for investing also.
Indiana’s latest pitch to lure business received national attention and stirred up some controversy. Yet that is exactly what a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal is meant to do. So, mission accomplished.
Chinese stocks have been on a tear. Last week, China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose 8.9 percent. In the last year, the Chinese market has jumped 150 percent. No other major stock market has ever grown this much in dollar value over 12 months. Since the beginning of 2015, the Chinese stock market has doubled in […]
