In the 1990s, Mark Cuban started one of the first Internet companies, a video streaming service called Broadcast.com, and later sold it to Yahoo for several billion dollars. With some of those proceeds, he bought the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise and sold that as well, taking home another several [...]
Market worries
Historically, markets have delivered similar returns under both Democrat and Republican administrations. For that reason, my view is that investors shouldn’t worry too much about who occupies the White House. That’s why I tend to stay away from discussions involving politics. But sometimes the news [...]
Anniversary review
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the start of the pandemic, making it a good time to look back and ask what lessons we might learn. In early-2020, when Covid was first identified in the U.S., the stock market dropped 34% in the space of five weeks. But later in the year—after the [...]
A new way
There’s a change coming in the way many of us will invest in the coming years. But for background, it’s important first to look at a related—though seemingly mundane—investment concept known as tax-loss harvesting. To understand how tax-loss harvesting works, we can look at a simple example. [...]
Navigating a market in transition
Fifty years ago, when the first index funds were getting started, critics wasted no time attacking the idea. They called it “un-American” and a “sure path to mediocrity.” But over time, indexing has grown, to the point that it now accounts for more than half of all mutual fund assets in the U.S. [...]
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