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“I take my hat off that you are able to continue picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. Reading your newsletter, I scratch my head in amazement at your ability to increase your exposures in a market you admit is the most expensive ever.” – @mlevin999 That was a comment I got on Twitter following  a recent newsletter.  where I discussed increasing our exposure concerning our short-term  “buy signals.” To wit: “The uptick in money flows did allow us to add some exposure to ...

“I take my hat off that you are able to continue picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. Reading your newsletter, I scratch my head in amazement at your ability to increase your exposures in a market you admit is the most expensive ever.” – @mlevin999 That was a comment I got on Twitter following  a recent newsletter.  where I discussed increasing our exposure concerning our short-term  “buy signals.” To wit: “The uptick in money flows did allow us to add some exposure t...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing. “By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investor can actually out-perform most investment professionals.” ETFs have thus become massively popular, with 2020 seeing all sorts of records broken for the industry. The rise of active ETFs Of course, if a concept becomes popular with punters, the industry is spurred on to create more products. So it feels like in the last couple of years, there are new ‘active’ ETFs launched eve...

Weekend reads: What exactly is going on with big tech stocks? MarketWatch 3 hrs ago TOP TEN Shares of Amazon are little changed this year, underperforming the S&P 500 Index, which has risen 11%. (Getty Images) After many years during which the most familiar technology companies pulled the entire stock market up with them, 2021 is turning out to be a slow one for big tech. Here’s how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 have performed this year through May 20 (with dividends reinvested): Informat...

May 19, 2021 at 7:45PM One thing weve learned over the last year is that a lot of work can be done remotely. Meetings can happen over Zoom. Spare rooms can be turned into offices. But now that the old physical workplaces are starting to reopen, what does work even look like? As an employee? As a business? In this episode of Rule Breaker Investing, Motley Fool Human Resources superstars Lee Burbage and Kara Chambers are here to help us make the best of whats to come. To ...

The “Yale model” of investment sparked a boom in alternative assets, yet its mastermind gave very different investing advice.

David Swensens guide to sleeping soundly Financial wisdom for troubled times—plus strong opinions on the current crisis—from Yales in-house Warren Buffett. Marc Gunther ’73, a contributing writer to Fortune magazine, blogs at marcgunther.com. Mark Ostow Swensens recipe for investing David Swensen has built Yales exceptional endowment returns largely through categories of investments that arent available to or arent smart for an individual investor. (They include private equity, such as v...

Arnie vs. Jack: Who Was the Better Investor?  Share   Share “I’d rather win one big tournament in my entire life than make the cut every week.” — Arnold Palmer (p. 163, “Maxims of Wall Street”) I’ve played golf most of my life and have always enjoyed the sport once I stopped keeping score! I especially remember the invitation I received from a member (and subscriber) to play at the famous Augusta National Golf Club, where they play the Masters. I can never forget when I sat in...

Embed David Swensen speaks in 2012 at an event honoring Jack Bogle, who created the first index fund. Like Bogle, Swensen was a champion of the everyday investor who he thought should invest in low-fee index funds and steer clear of actively managed mutual funds with higher fees. Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images David Swensen speaks in 2012 at an event honoring Jack Bogle, who cr...