High-frequency” trading firms spend billions in a high-stakes arms race to gain a millisecond’s edge on executions. But while speed may be valuable to traders, it can be extremely detrimental to investors.
Startup firms like Betterment, Wealthfront, Hedgeable, TradeKing Core and Motif Horizon have been joined by industry giants Vanguard, Schwab and Fidelity in offering platforms that provide low-cost, algorithm-based portfolio management run on computers.
Life lessons can be learned in every job, no matter how humble.
Interest rates are one of the two most important variables that affect investment results. The other is profitability.
Savvy long-term investors understand that, when a company repurchases its stock at prices below intrinsic value, their ownership of the business increases.
Volatility returned with a vengeance in the first quarter of 2015, as investors grappled with increasing uncertainty associated with Federal Reserve policy, signs the U.S. economy has hit a soft patch, and lowered expectations for corporate earnings.
The title of a recently discovered 1963 speech given by Benjamin Graham, titled “Securities in an Insecure World,” sounds like a topic one might choose to speak about today.
It’s logical that you want to invest with a manager who has a significant amount invested alongside you. Why? The manager’s financial interests are aligned with yours.
I wholeheartedly agree with the theme advocated last week by fellow IBJ columnist Mickey Kim that, throughout our country’s history, a bet against America has been a bad bet.
Buffett believes in America and puts his money where his mouth is.
The cognoscenti who dissect every word in Federal Open Market Committee statements predicted “patient” would be dropped from the March 18 “Fedspeak” press release. They were correct—and Voila!, the Dow Jones tacked on 300 points.
To understand the evolution of Buffett’s investment process, it’s important to know his history with Berkshire.
Many stock investors would like to forget the early 2000s and the vast sums of money lost. Yet valuable lessons can be learned from studying this textbook case of market irrationality.
Mini-tenders are often used to catch small investors off guard and take advantage of their lack of knowledge.
The strength of the U.S. stock market has almost every “strategist” predicting that stocks will continue their upward trajectory this year.
Outcome is the result, but doesn’t tell you anything about how that result was achieved. Outcome is about the “right now.
While unicorns bestow wealth to a group of newly rich entrepreneurs, they might not be particularly profitable for investors.
Narcissism can be a precursor to selfish and/or unethical CEO behavior, which can also cause your investment to perish.
Financial markets were rocked on Jan. 15 when the Swiss National Bank surprised the world by removing its three-year cap on the Swiss franc/euro exchange rate.
At a basic, Economics 101 level, an imbalance has developed between supply and demand.
