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David Swensen, the pioneer of Yale who remodeled investments On monday David Swensen despite a long battle with cancer he gave a regular class on investing at his beloved Yale University. Two days later, he finally managed to make some of the biggest money he did, 67 years old. The investment industry has produced more than just direct and ruthless tycoons, unfortunate failures, and foolish fraudsters. In Swensen (who has run a $ 31 billion endowment for his alma mater since 1985), he had a ra...

William Green, author of Richer, Wiser, Happier: How The Worlds Greatest Investors In Markets And Life, says super investors like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger played only those games they could win.

Why You Are Your Portfolio’s Worst Enemy April 26, 2021 11:00am by Barry Ritholtz   Nearly all errors and mistakes in investing comes down to human emotions. That’s according to Jack Brennan, chairman emeritus and former CEO at The Vanguard Group, one of the world’s largest investment companies with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Brennan, who was Jack Bogle’s hand-picked successor, joined Vanguard in 1982, was elected presi...

© Leif Skoogfors/Getty Images Jack Bogle, the late founder of giant asset manager Vanguard, made a huge difference to the finances of private investors across the world by popularising the use of index funds. These offer a cheap way to copy the return on an underlying stock index and in the process, beat most active managers over the long run. Bogle showed investors that if you could get the average return at a below-average cost, you would enjoy better returns with less stress than someone wh...

 Jeremy Siegel suggested stocks could rise another 30% before the boom ends. Just when it seems like  “euphoria” can’t get much more  “euphoric,” every bullish guest in the financial media attempts to  “out bull” the previous. “It isn’t until the Fed leans really hard then you have to worry.  I mean, we could have the market go up 30% or 40% [this year] before it goes down that 20%. We’re not in the ninth inning here. We’re more like in the third inning of the bo...

In this episode of The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World discuss how individuals, corporations, and governments should be preparing for longer lifespans, accelerated technological innovations, and the end of retirement as we know it. Plus, Alison takes on the debate over whether index funds are good for the economy. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fools free podcasts, check out our podcast center. To get started investing, check out our quick-start guide t...

Jeff Ptak: Hi, and welcome to The Long View. Im Jeff Ptak, chief ratings officer at Morningstar Research Services. Christine Benz: And Im Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar. Ptak: Our guest this week is Jason Hsu. Jason is founder and chairman of Rayliant Global Advisors, a quantitative asset manager based in Hong Kong. Jason also cofounded Research Affiliates with Robert Arnott and has been at the forefront of the fundamental indexing movement. Jason is a member of th...

. Download a complimentary copy of Morningstar ETFInvestor After a long, dark, cold winter, green shoots have emerged across the landscape of systematic value strategies--those that buy stocks that are cheap relative to some fundamental measure of their worth. Exactly what has plagued these approaches for so long has been widely debated. And while the recent thaw has been welcomed by many long-suffering value disciples, even some of the factor’s biggest fans worry that it may be a false sprin...

~~~   BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. His name is Rob Arnott and he is the Chairman and Founder of Research Affiliates, a firm who essentially patented the concept of fundamental indexing, pretty much they invented it, and I know Rob for a couple years. He was on the show in 2018 and his office just cranks out so many fascinating research pieces, hence the name Research Affiliates that after you read the third or fourth thing ...

The New Titanic In March, the hedge fund Archegos struck an iceberg. In just two days, the highly leveraged fund went from “business as usual” to total collapse. Performance rapidly degenerated; the fund was unable to meet margin calls; its bankers seized its collateral; the fund was out of business. Archegos lost everything. Although Archegos was held only by founder Bill Hwang’s family, its saga offers broad investment lessons. The Perils of Investment Courage Victories can be hazardous...