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…
24/7 Wall St. : A Redditor wonders if fully funding a child’s college education is the right option. There is a delicate balance between letting your child graduate debt-free and meeting your own retirement…
While many investors might not know who Israel Englander is, they have likely heard of his Millennium Management hedge fund. It is one of the world’s largest hedge funds with almost $68 billion in…
Along with the rise of artificial intelligence has been the growth in data centers. The former has been directly responsible for the latter’s meteoric rise. According to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, there…
Startups lose money. They direct their resources to growing the business first and worry about making profits second. Heck, even the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t anticipate new businesses to make any money in their…
Prem Watsa is not a household name, but he is known well on Wall Street as “Canada’s Warren Buffett.” He modeled his Fairfax Financial Holdings fund by acquiring insurance companies and taking large stakes…
There are few investors who can say they never lost money, but billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller is one of them. And we’re not talking about just squeaking by with a 1% gain, either. His Duquesne…
The 9-5 grind is real. You have to work if you want to eat. But what if you could still have income, but not get out of bed? No, this isn’t some late-night infomercial…
Although perhaps not as well-known amongst investors as some of his peers, Leon Cooperman is a towering presence on Wall Street. The billionaire investor started from humble beginnings as the son of a Bronx…
Jim Simons was a mathematician-turned-investor who built Renaissance Technologies into the world’s second-largest hedge fund. Although Simons died earlier this year at age 86, it is still possible to use his legendary investment (and…
Legendary hedge-fund pioneer Steven Cohen is best known for founding SAC Capital Advisors, one of the most successful hedge funds ever created. However, it was forced to shut down in 2013 after the firm…
