Bill Nygren has been at this for over 30 years. Since his Oakmark Fund‘s inception in 1991, the value investing legend has generated annualized returns of 13%, handily beating the S&P 500‘s results of…
The best investment billionaire John Paulson ever made was a bet against something. He famously predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market and made a $20 billion profit doing so. Today, Paulson is…
Real estate investment trusts (REIT) were one of the industries hit hardest by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented interest rate hikes. The central bank raised rates a shocking 11 times in a little over a…
While special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have been around for years, they really burst onto the mainstream investor’s consciousness in 2020. That year there was an explosion of so-called “blank check” company deals completed,…
While dividend stock investing is one of the best strategies an investor can pursue to create phenomenal wealth, chasing yield can undermine the entire effort. Buying dividend stocks simply because the yields on the…
Life is full of surprises and a lot of them are not pleasant. Car transmissions fail. Water lines in your house burst. Life comes at you fast sometimes. That’s why everyone needs an emergency…
Companies have several ways they can share their success with their investors: They can pay dividends or they can buy back stock. Both are popular with investors and are generally considered a bullish signal…
When economic growth is uncertain, investors often turn to the reliability of dividend stocks to see them through. With the Federal Reserve entering into a new rate-easing cycle, it indicates the economy is not…
Warren Buffett is famous for being a value investor while Peter Lynch tended to be growth-oriented. Some investors are neither, or rather they are a mix of the two as everyone wants to buy…
Savvy investors understand the value of a stock split is exactly zero. You’re getting 12 slices of a pizza instead of six or four $5 bills instead of one $20 bill. So if stock…
24/7 Wall St. Insights: How much life insurance you need is a very personal decision influenced by individual considerations that a simple rule of thumb like 10x your annual income can’t address. Starting a…
Famed value investor Chris Davis runs Davis Selected Advisors, a hedge fund with $19.9 billion in assets under management. While there are many value investors I admire, Davis is among my favorites. He is…
Enigmatic investing legend Seth Klarman runs the Boston-based Baupost Group hedge fund that has around $27 billion in assets under management. The billionaire is a value investor in the vein of Benjamin Graham, considered…
Politicians are more known for their trading than running hedge funds. They seem to have an uncanny knack for making stock trades that perform remarkably well, well above what the averages suggest they should…
Watching what the smart money is buying can be a useful investment strategy. While blindly following anyone, whether a billionaire investor or some guy writing on the internet, is never a good idea, using…
The publication in 2005 of Joel Greenblatt’s book “The Little Book That Beat the Market” caused a sensation as it opened up a unique opportunity for investors. The investing strategies used by the famed…
David Einhorn has a penchant for picking stocks to short. The one that put the billionaire investor on the map was his hedge fund Greenlight Capital‘s short of private financing giant Allied Capital, alleging…
Investing in the stock market has been the surest way to build wealth over time. Year-to-year, however, there are numerous ups and downs. And you don’t even have to look back all that far…
Nelson Peltz isn’t one to shy away from a fight. The billionaire activist investor has used his hedge fund Trian Fund Management to take on corporate giants. He’s launched very public proxy battles against…
John Paulson became an investing legend by parlaying bets against the subprime mortgage lending business into massive profits when the housing market collapsed in 2007. His story was recounted in the book, The Greatest…
