The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Millions of seniors today collect monthly benefits from Social Security. And many people rely on those benefits to cover the majority -- or all -- of their retirement expenses. In recent years, living on Social Security alone has been particularly tough due to rampant inflation. But thankfully, inflation is starting to cool to the point where the Federal Reserve is finally talking about interest-rate cuts, and prices are starting to moderate.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

I enjoy slicing and dicing historical stock market returns. I’m not naive enough to assume this helps predict the future. However, studying the past can provide a baseline to help set expectations when it comes to risk and a potential range of outcomes. Here’s a different way to look at returns over various time horizons for the S&P 500 going back to 1993: This is how to read this chart: Pick a starting.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 5, 2024

stabble, a Dubai, UAE-based provider of a Solana-based protocol established to minimize financial loss by reducing operational costs, raised $2.5M in a combined pre-seed, seed, and private funding round. The round was led by Masterblox with participation from Dynamic Labs, Founder Heads, Spicy Capital, DuckDAO, Marshland Capital, and ZEMU VC. The company intends to use the funds for product development, marketing, security […] The post stabble Raises $2.5M in Funding appeared first on FinS

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 12, 2024

I’m deep in my book writing work discussing federal debt when I see a tweet that simply epitomizes the entire genre. Full disclosure: My priors on federal debt are that I don’t know where the line of too much should be drawn, but I do know that none of the terrible things we were warned about over the past 50 years due to excess debt have come to pass.

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American Investment Council

JULY 18, 2024

Maloney : “Strong private equity returns ensure that tens of millions of dedicated public servants can depend on a well-funded pension to support their well-deserved retirement.” Washington, D.C. – Today, the American Investment Council released its 2024 public pension study showing that private equity once again delivered the strongest returns for public pension portfolios.

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Fortune Financial

MARCH 7, 2024

Signed into law in 1956 by then President Dwight Eisenhower, the Federal Highway Act created the Interstate Highway System , which would become the largest and costliest public works project in history. Measuring almost 48,000 miles in total distance, the Interstate Highway System was completed only in 1992, more than three decades after work began, and for a total cost in today’s dollars of more than $500 billion. ( source: Wikipedia Commons ) Inspired in large part by the German Autoba

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Blackstone

AUGUST 8, 2024

A powerful shift is underway in credit markets as private lenders partner with banks to finance real economy assets. This long-term secular trend has helped private credit markets expand rapidly, but we believe that we’re still in its early innings. In our view, there’s a $25 trillion-plus opportunity ahead that can continue to drive tremendous growth and opportunity for our clients.

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AltAssets

AUGUST 21, 2024

Tech-focused investment house Insight Partners has reportedly raised more than $10bn towards its latest flagship fund, putting it well on the way to its $12.5bn target. The post Insight Partners said to pass $10bn for latest flagship raise, eyeing early 2025 final close first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News. The post Insight Partners said to pass $10bn for latest flagship raise, eyeing early 2025 final close appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Wealthfront

JANUARY 25, 2024

In planning your investment strategy for 2024 and beyond, there are wise principles to keep in mind: While no one can predict how market prices will move in any particular period, there are time-tested general rules that can put the odds of success squarely in your favor. In this letter we will offer some simple […] The post Burt Malkiel & Alex Michalka’s Insights for Investors in 2024 appeared first on Wealthfront Blog.

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Top 1000 Funds

JULY 28, 2024

The Thinking Ahead Institute collaborated with the Future Fund and 25 other asset owners in an in-depth exploration of asset owner practices, the TAI Asset Owner Peer Study. These asset owners were carefully chosen for their robust governance, substantial size, and global perspectives.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It's no secret that semiconductor stocks have been particularly big winners amid the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. With share prices skyrocketing, several high-profile chip companies have opted for stock splits this year. Some AI chip stock-split stocks you might recognize include Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) , and Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO).

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A Wealth of Common Sense

AUGUST 18, 2024

After the Great Financial Crisis, everyone was trying to figure out how it would impact the coming wave of millennials entering adulthood. Millennials were getting blamed for killing everything — napkins, diamond rings, chain restaurants, motorcycles, bar soap and more. Sure, whatever. The one that never made sense to me was all the pundits predicting millennials would never buy a home or move out of big cities.

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FinSMEs

AUGUST 26, 2024

Slingshot AI, a New York- and London, UK-based AI mental health startup, reportedly raised approximately $30m in seed funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Other backers in the company included Felicis Ventures, BoxGroup, Gokul Rajaram, Jerry Murdock, Bryan Baum, Sumeet Gajri, Arjun Sethi, Mike Stoppelman, Liu Jiang, Cory Levy, and David Cahn. […] The post Slingshot AI Raises Approx. $30M in Seed Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

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The Big Picture

JULY 7, 2024

@TBPInvictus here If you’re tired of California-minimum-wage-and-its-impact-on-limited-service-restaurant-employment stories, I understand. Leave this page immediately. I’m tired of it, too, but some stories are so factually challenged that they demand a response. So, allow me to address a hot mess of a story that appeared recently in the California Globe.

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MAY 6, 2024

Washington, D.C. – The American Investment Council (AIC) released a report today, authored by PitchBook , highlighting the growing role of private credit in serving small and middle-market businesses. “Private credit is playing a crucial role in supporting businesses and delivering impressive returns for investors, especially in uncertain times,” said Drew Maloney, President & CEO of the American Investment Council. “The industry’s resilience and flexibility are filli

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Financial Times: Moral Money

JANUARY 9, 2024

Fink and Kapito say headcount will increase this year as firm invests in technology and new offerings

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Blackstone News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

New York & Fayetteville, Ark. – February 14, 2024 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced that Blackstone Growth and affiliated funds (collectively “Blackstone”) have made a growth equity investment in 7 Brew Coffee, the next generation drive-thru beverage business. Blackstone’s investment seeks to help enable 7 Brew to accelerate its already-rapid expansion across the U.S., in collaboration with its premier franchise partners.

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Blackstone

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 ended with a burst of deal activity at Blackstone – a sign of renewed optimism after the Fed’s extended rate-hiking campaign. Our president, Jon Gray, unpacks why we believe this is a particularly opportune moment for investing and outlines our three focus areas for the year. He also shares his view on where the real estate market is headed as the cost of capital declines.

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AltAssets

AUGUST 29, 2024

Venture capital major New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has raised more than $468m for its first secondaries-focused fund since spinning out its specialist arm eight years ago. The post NEA raises almost half a billion dollars in return to secondaries market appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Financial Times M&A

JANUARY 16, 2024

Buyers return after secondary market for private shares was hit by higher interest rates

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence has been the dominant investing theme for the last two years, and Nvidia has stolen the spotlight. The company reported triple-digit sales growth in the last five quarters, and shares have surged more than sevenfold since January 2023, making it the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) during that period.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It's no secret that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has been struggling. The stock is down more than 60% year to date and has been the worst performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year. The company was once the largest chipmaker in the world, dominating the personal computer (PC) space. That helped it become one of the first two technology companies to join the famed Dow Jones index, along with Microsoft back in the late 1990s.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It finally happened. This year, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) (NYSE: BRK.A) began selling significant portions of its monster Apple stake. According to its latest 13-F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Berkshire Hathaway reduced its Apple investment by approximately half in the second quarter. That stock was worth around $80 billion based on Apple's current share price.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It's not uncommon to see your overall living costs decrease once you retire. Granted, for some people, this happens as a matter of necessity. If you're not earning the same paycheck and don't have a lot of savings, you may be forced to cut back on spending once your time in the workforce has come to an end. But if there's one expense than tends to rise in retirement rather than fall, it's healthcare.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Social Security took in a whopping $1.351 trillion last year, and it paid out $1.385 trillion in benefits to retirees, disabled workers, and their families. If that math looks a little funny to you, that's because it is. Take out another $7 billion in administrative expenses, and the program's trust funds shrank by $41 billion in 2023, and we expect these deficits to continue over the coming years.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It can be hard to find good dividend yield stocks when the broader market is hovering near all-time highs, and the S&P 500' s yield is a scant 1.2%. But don't give up -- just look harder. If you do, you'll find gems like Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) , with a yield of 6.2%; W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC) , which yields 5.8%; and EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) , with a huge 7.2% dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry doesn't have quite the sheen as it did earlier this summer. Investors have become increasingly wary of the technology's ability to deliver real-world value -- at least in a time frame that justifies the sky-high stock valuations investors have seen. At the heart of this lies the technology's posterchild, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA).

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

After a strong run in the first half of the year, technology stocks have come under pressure recently. Recent stock price trends suggest investors are taking a more cautious stance on the economy while the mania around artificial intelligence (AI) has also eased. Even high-flying Nvidia has been affected, with the stock trading down nearly 20% over the past six months.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the best-performing stocks over the past five years, up an astonishing 2,430%. Given those gains, the question many investors ask now is whether it is too late for new investors to buy in and see above-average returns. Let's look at four reasons why Nvidia stock is still worth buying like there is no tomorrow. 1.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Since the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) early last year, the star of the show has been Nvidia. The company pioneered the graphics processing units (GPUs) that have become the gold standard for AI training and inference applications. This, in turn, has resulted in a blistering run for the stock, which has gained 639% (as of this writing) since early last year.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Few retirement decisions have as lasting an impact as when you decide to claim Social Security. The decision permanently affects how much you receive, so it's not one you want to gloss over as insignificant. I recommend that retirees (or those approaching retirement) figure out their break-even age before claiming Social Security benefits. Your break-even age is when the total lifetime benefits from claiming at one age equal the total lifetime benefits from claiming at another age.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Warren Buffett hasn't seen a lot to like in the stock market in quite some time. In each of the last seven quarters , Buffett sold more stock from Berkshire Hathaway 's (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) equity portfolio than new purchases. And it looks like he's about to make it a full two years. Last quarter, Buffett cut his company's massive position in Apple nearly in half.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Zscaler 's (NASDAQ: ZS) stock price sank 19% on Sept. 4 after its latest earnings report came out. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on July 31, the cybersecurity company's revenue rose 30% year over year to $593 million and exceeded analysts' expectations by $25 million. Its adjusted earnings per share (EPS) grew 38% to $0.88 and cleared the consensus forecast by $0.19.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 20% and 19%, respectively, through the first eight months of the year. With these two major indexes in record territory, investors might be worried there aren't attractive opportunities to bolster their portfolios. I don't agree with this assumption. In fact, there's one dominant enterprise that looks like the ultimate growth stock to buy with $1,000 right now.

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