Quiet Growth

MAY 30, 2023

The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is a financial theory that posits that financial markets are “efficient”, meaning that prices reflect all available information at any given time. Market anomalies: EMH doesn’t account for market anomalies such as stock market bubbles and crashes.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

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. People believe markets are efficient, they start to passively invest.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

like the overall stock market. It's also worth adding that the average hedge fund -- once considered ultra-wealthy investors' best chance at outperforming the stock market -- actually underperformed the S&P 500 for this same timeframe. Being more equity-oriented, Blackstone shares also tend to be more volatile.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2023

Billionaire investor Ron Baron has been an active investor for 53 years. Given his decades of investing experience, Baron's advice on the markets tends to carry some weight. But Baron recently told CNBC that he believes persistent inflation might actually be the reason for the stock market's impending gains to come.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

On to Number 7, still here in the Foolish Moves category, smarter moves made by people who are already active investors. All I do is share what I know with great passion and urgency and hope that they too will do the smart and safe thing, like getting their money in the stock market and leaving it there for decades.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Now try forecasting the economy or the stock market with 1000s of factors and millions of people, all reacting to each other. Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor Wes Gray Alpha Architect Feb 2, 2016 3.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

That investment has historically been four times more volatile than the stock market. If you're a more active investor, you probably want to pay attention to liquidity, which is generally measured by daily volume and the bid-ask spread. A Bitcoin ETF is not diversified, it just holds one investment which is Bitcoin.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In terms of kind of what this means for active and passive, I think there’s a lot to that. But as an active investor, I can say I’m a big fan of passive investing. bond market, the broad U.S. So I think there’s a real benefit to the passive investing, the ETF trend. And when we look at the broad U.S.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

All this is all happening while people say they are downright miserable about the market. Even those who are active investors reflect sentiment at depressed levels. That’s fine, because the dichotomy in fact implies further market gain, says George Smith, portfolio strategist at LPL Research.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

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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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

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.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

Antti Ilmanen and I wrote a paper, I forget the exact title, I think one of them was called Sin a Little, where we say, timing the market, and this applies to the bond market as well as the stock market, is an investing sin. We’re active investors. We think we make the market a more efficient place.

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