Among those with very little understanding of how to invest, the errors that analysts make can escape them. The mistakes they are making these days are much more glaring. Scott Black is nothing if not experienced. He founded Delphi Management back in 1980 and has been at the helm as president ever since. His firm […]
Quantitative analysts, called quants, employ mathematical and statistical models to understand things. Two of them are now stepping up to provide investors with their insights. Quantitative analysis is used in many fields to seek to understand various processes by seeking to quantify data and provide models. They are particularly widely used in the world of […]
University endowments have been earning returns that have well underperformed stocks, due mostly with their fascination with private equity. They happily fail though. University endowments manage a total of $840 billion in funds these days, and coming in with returns that have averaged 6.3% less than the S&P 500 over the last 10 years should […]
Whether or not there is an actual emergency in the United States right now, President Donald Trump has declared one, to provide him access to up to $50 million by his own pen. Looking back on how COVID-19 has played out around the world so far, it shouldn’t surprise us too much that this has […]
Up until this week, the Dow has never lost 1200 points in a single day. We’ve done this three times this week, including hitting the new record on Thursday where we lost 10%. We use a 20% decline to define a bear market, although this is just an arbitrary number and we could have chosen […]
Individual investors have been challenged plenty by the current stock crisis, and this has been all the more painful for mutual fund managers, even though they may not feel it. The current correction in stocks that we’ve been under over the last three weeks have been pretty painful for everyone who remained on the long […]
As mired as stock markets are in uncertainty during these times, and as much as they have fallen, things could be a whole lot worse if not for all the buying of these dips. With stocks moving so much off of the all-time highs we were at not so long ago, due to the fears […]
With oil and stock markets already in a panic over the epidemic of virus fear that has gripped the world, Saudi Arabia declaring a price war on top of this was just too much. We already had the weekend’s escalating coronavirus cases to deal with come Monday, but Saudi Arabia had a little extra surprise […]
While the great majority of stock investors wrestle with the decision of how much to be in or out during these wild times, those more in the know instead see opportunities. Exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have become enormously popular among investors over the last few years, and more and more money is put into […]
Jim Stewart writes a regular column for the New York Times called “Common Sense.” He’s got the common part down pat, but the sense part needs some real work. The common view of investing has so many champions that it’s near impossible to single out anyone as its spokesperson, but if we had to pick […]