Mar 6, 2021 at 9:15AM
You may find that unsolicited advice is quite easy to come by, especially when it concerns personal finance. There are many circulating theories that might sound amazing as part of a bank s marketing campaign, but are in reality irrelevant to your circumstances. Here, we ll look at five of the most common investing myths and their corresponding non-fiction.
Myth 1: Investing is complicated
This is probably the most influential myth, although it needs a slight adjustment. Investing will be as complicated
as you choose to make it. Investing, perhaps surprisingly, can also be as simple as you want to make it.
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This Apple Stock Investor Made $270 Million in 2020
Not CEO Tim Cook, but chairman Art Levinson is Appleâs largest individual shareholder. In 2020, as Apple stock soared 80%, the investorâs 4.6 million shares earned him a whopping $270 million in paper gains.
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Mar 4, 2021
2020 was a tough year for everyone, as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe. But at least financially, one Apple investor had 270 million reasons to smile ear-to-ear.
Dr. Art Levinson made bank in 2020. At the start of last year, the investor owned a stock split-adjusted 4.59 million shares of Apple, of which he sold very few in 2021 (a net 2,700 shares, per my estimate).
Nicholas S. Brown ’23 is a Social Studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. His column appears on alternate Fridays.
In the fall 2019 semester, I was arrested at the Harvard-Yale football game for protesting both universities’ investments in fossil fuel companies. I tell you this not to be another voice calling on Harvard to divest (which they still should and must do), but to confess something more personal: I’m a hypocrite. After I was arrested next to a banner that read Nobody wins. Yale and Harvard are complicit in climate injustice, I invested in fossil fuels. While Harvard has been complicit in climate injustice, I must confess, so have I.