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The Real Secret of Successful Investors

Date06 Oct 2014

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Historical market data are often misused by pundits who believe they can predict the future by looking at the past. Much of what counts these days as “financial news” is simply a parade of self-styled “pros” peering into their crystal balls and telling the rest of us how to time the market, pick outperforming stocks...

Swedroe On Large-Stock Value Premium

Date06 Oct 2014

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Recently, we have seen a rise in the level of discussion about whether there is a significant value premium in large-cap stocks. The value premium is the tendency of stocks with low prices relative to measures of their value to outperform stocks with high relative prices. Since large-cap stocks make up about 90 percent of...

The Shocking Admission of This Shuttered Hedge Fund Manager

Date06 Oct 2014

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It’s no longer surprising when hedge funds close their doors. According to a website that tracks hedge fund “implosions,” since late 2006, aptly-named The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter, at least 117 major funds at 71 fund families have shuttered. The sponsoring fund families are some of the best-known in the business. They include Citigroup, Carlyle, Russell...

Stock Performance In A Recession

Date06 Oct 2014

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It’s now been more than five years since our last recession. This most recent recession, caused by the financial crisis, officially began in December 2007 and lasted until June 2009, a period of 18 months. It was the longest of 12 recessions, identified as such by the National Bureau of Economic Research, occurring in the...

Picking the ‘Right’ Hedge Fund Involves More Than Looking in the Past

Date06 Oct 2014

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Early in my career, I worked at a large brokerage firm. My job included answering calls from people with questions. One question kept coming up: What does your Individual Retirement Account return? The first few times, I thought it was a joke. But it didn’t take long for me to realize that people just didn’t...

Investing against the Odds, and the Facts

Date06 Oct 2014

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Earlier this summer, I was on a hike with a friend and mentioned that while we’d started at about 9,000 feet, we’d reach an elevation of 12,000 feet by the end of the trail. My friend replied, “That’s a fact I just don’t believe.” Yes, it sounds silly, and of course, we laughed about it....

Lessons In ‘The Happiness Of Pursuit’ From Chris Guillebeau

Date06 Oct 2014

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“People have always been captivated by quests,” writes author Chris Guillebeau in his brand new book, The Happiness of Pursuit. Chris, for one, is most certainly one of those people. His book celebrates the completion of a personal quest to visit all 193 countries in the world before his 35th birthday. Are the rest of...

Think Rightly

Date06 Oct 2014

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Today I’d like to take a look at some important concepts contained within Daniel Pink’s bestselling book, A Whole New Mind. His focus on the ascendance of right-brain thinking fits squarely into our continuing conversation about ways to best train our youth to meet the financial, educational and career challenges facing the Millennial generation. My...

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