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Ingredients for a Happy Retirement

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Microsoft is at the point where its market cap is worth $428 for every single person on the planet. The Magnificent Seven is now about 30% of the US stock market. For the people who aren't thinking about it, what does this mean for the average investor or, how about the people who like to pick stocks?

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Aswath Damodaran on the Difference Between Pricing a Company and Valuing One, and More

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Perhaps most seminally, he wrote two books, the first of which was, You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, which I put on the rankings as the best named book of all time. Then another, The Little Book That Beats the Market. A company is a legal entity. People believe markets are efficient, they start to passively invest.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

So litigation around unfair competition or the like, a company would pull in our expert witness and I was part of the team to put together the case to explain the market size or the market share or what have you. But the career paths from there were either kind of the PhD route, or the legal routes. bond market, the broad U.S.

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A Conversation With John Graham on CPP Investments Fiscal 2023 Results

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There’s probably more volatility on tap for stock markets, Graham said, adding he’s “cautiously optimistic” about what lies ahead for the fund this year as certain sectors in some parts of the world appear ready to soar. That beat the fund’s reference portfolio (an internal benchmark it sets for itself), which had a return of just 0.1

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

And — but then the — the — basically, the stock market goes into a bear market. RITHOLTZ: … most of (inaudible) — Warren is an honest steward of active investing. I think some people think of the stock market like they don’t really view it as people in a circle trading.