Growth stocks hammered value plays last year, as they have been doing since the U.S. recession ended. According to Citi, the MSCI all-cap world value index has underperformed the MSCI growth index by 25% since 2010, with 2019 showing the biggest gap in performance in 20 years. But there wasRead More →
LONDON (Project Syndicate) — Wars end when the belligerents give up fighting. The surest way for this to happen, and sometimes the least destructive, is through a decisive battle that leads to unconditional surrender. Boris Johnson’s overwhelming victory in the United Kingdom’s general election this month was such a battle.Read More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp Chief Executive Masayoshi Son attends a news conference in Tokyo By Kane Wu, Julie Zhu and Yingzhi Yang HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – For SoftBank Group Inc (T:), financial technology firm OneConnect’s IPO should have been a vindication of an aggressive China investingRead More →
Getty Images/iStockphoto Paying down your home mortgage balance faster than required is not a new idea. But you may be surprised to discover how powerful it can be. Paying down your home mortgage balance faster than required is not a new idea. But you may be surprised to discover howRead More →
Few companies have attracted as much praise, derision, skepticism and enthusiasm as Telsa Motors and its founder Elon Musk. Having interviewed Elon Musk and the Tesla leadership as part of myresearch, one of the questions I’m asked most frequently is: how can you make sense of Tesla’s wild strategies? TheRead More →
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(This is the fifth article in a series about dividend stocks in today’s low interest-rate environment based on interviews with professional investors. Links to the previous articles are below.) Investors who want to follow a dividend strategy but are worried about a decline in stock prices may be well-served byRead More →
Shares of Mallinckrodt PLC were rocked Thursday, putting them on track for a record low close, after a report that the specialty drug company had hired restructuring advisers and was considering bankruptcy ahead of federal opioid trials. The stock MNK, -35.52% plunged 35.3% in afternoon trading, paring earlier losses ofRead More →
Food delivery firm Grubhub, industrial heavyweight 3M and consumer products giant Colgate-Palmolive are all vulnerable targets for activist investors, according to exclusive data. The trio along with software company Autodesk ADSK, +1.97% and dental equipment manufacturer Dentsply Sirona XRAY, +2.08% have been identified as possible activism targets in a reportRead More →
Jeffrey Epstein wielded upper-crust cachet and an online PR storm to rehabilitate his image after registering as a sex offender more than a decade ago, according to a recent profile by The New York Times. But the latter tactic would be far less effective if he were to employ itRead More →
‘You take what you earn with the sweat of your brow, then you take a percentage of that and you invest it in other people’s labor.’ That’s it. That’s how billionaire optometrist Herbert Wertheim, “the greatest investor you’ve never heard of,” explains his steady climb to massive wealth, according toRead More →
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. plans to “put a lot of money” into energy, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Saturday. Speaking during the question-and-answer session at the conglomerate’s BRK.A, +1.10% BRK.B, +1.24% annual meeting, Buffett bragged that Berkshire will be creating as much power through wind energy as all of itsRead More →
With thousands of actively managed mutual funds to choose from, it’s as difficult to be distinguished from the crowd as it is to beat the broad stock-market indexes. But the Federated Kaufmann Small Cap Fund has done both. In an interview, John Ettinger, one of the fund’s managers, described theRead More →
© Reuters. Junichiro Hironaka, chief lawyer of the ousted Nissan Motor Co Ltd chairman Carlos Ghosn, attends a news conference in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) – The lawyer for former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday said his team would pursue a different legal strategy from the oustedRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A SolarCity vehicle is shown in San Diego, California By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc’s sudden decision to shutter the bulk of its stores around the world raises a red flag over the future of its solar branch, a declining business itRead More →
A year after TiVo Corp. embarked on a “strategic review” of its business, it still hasn’t found a strategy for investors to review. On Feb. 27, 2018, TiVo said it was “evaluating a wide range of strategic alternatives to realize long-term shareholder value,” ranging from “transformative acquisitions that would accelerateRead More →
It’s a long way from Wall Street to Wayzata, Minn. And that distance may have helped a tiny mutual fund in the Upper Midwest post big returns last year, when most of their better-connected, and better-known peers from the big cities took it on the chin. The family-run Perkins DiscoveryRead More →
