With the 2024 election underway, a common question is whether politics has any effect on investment markets. On that score, there’s good news. According to the data, markets in the U.S. have delivered good, and roughly equal, results under both Democrats and Republicans. But that doesn’t mean [...]
Charlie Munger’s masterclass in personal finance
Charlie Munger, who died recently at the age of 99, always had a colorful turn of phrase. But entertaining as he was, his comments were also invariably full of wisdom. Taken together, in fact, Munger’s ideas offered investors a masterclass in investing. Here are some highlights: Choosing an [...]
The center lane
What’s the first rule in personal finance? My suggestion: Always look for ways to stay in the center lane—that is, to take a balanced approach. As the new year gets started, here are 10 ways you could apply this principle. Housekeeping. Over time, many of us accumulate a mixed bag of investment [...]
What we’ve learned
This year saw the passing of two giants of the investment world. The first was Harry Markowitz, who in the 1950s developed a concept now known as Modern Portfolio Theory. Markowitz’s key insight was one that today we view as so fundamental that it’s easy to take it for granted: Markowitz was the [...]
A (limited) benefit
With no disrespect to our representatives in Congress, a new rule taking effect in January reminds me of a scene from The Jerk, an old Steve Martin movie. Playing the role of a carnival huckster, Martin shows off a wall of attractive prizes but then narrows the choices to an impossibly small set of [...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 75
- Next Page »