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Wall Street’s Top Stars Got Blindsided by 2022 Market Collapse

(Bloomberg) — Marko Kolanovic and John Stoltzfus, two of the loudest stock bulls on all of Wall Street, were convinced of one thing at the outset of 2022: The Federal Reserve would go slow, very slow, with its plan to lift interest rates. Nevermind that inflation had already soared to its highest level in four […]

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Hedge Funds
Mutual Funds

Active Managers Fail Again as Stock Rotation Lashes Hedge Funds

(Bloomberg) — Stock pickers just blew the stock rotation they’ve spent years longing for. Long underweight the booming tech megacaps in recent years, professional speculators failed to ride the January revival in value shares, as they struggled to cut fast enough exposures to growth firms that have been killed in the bond selloff. This January […]

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Education, Biopharma, Oil and Natural Gas, Closed End Fund, Marketing

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (HMHC) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company, a learning company, provides curriculum, supplemental, intervention solutions, and professional learning services worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Education and HMH Books & Media. Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (XENE) Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing therapeutics to treat patients with neurological disorders […]

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A 91% Asset Plunge Hits a BlackRock Fund of Sustainable EM Stocks

(Bloomberg) — What was once the second biggest exchange-traded fund investing in sustainable emerging-market companies just became a shadow of its former shelf. In the two days leading up to Christmas Eve, the iShares ESG MSCI EM Leaders ETF (LDEM) lost 91% of its investments, leaving its total assets depleted at about $69 million, compared […]

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BEN has all of the earmarks of big value – does the timing provide a good fit?

Over the course of more than two decades as an investor and market analyst, I’ve studied a lot of different books about the markets and talked to a number of fellow investors about their investing methods. I’ve also experimented with as many different investing methods as possible, giving me the experience to compare the different […]

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Forget Recession Fears – Jim Cramer Says Now’s The Time To Look For Stocks To Buy

The outlook may be getting increasingly darker, but Cramer says now is the right time to start looking for stocks on sale.

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Indexing
Mutual Funds
No Load

A true market innovator and legend passes away. RIP, John Bogle

Yesterday, the financial world lost a titan, when John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard Group, passed away at the age of 89. If you’ve invested in the markets, and in particular in mutual funds, over the years, he’s somebody that wasn’t very easy to ignore. He was the founder of the index fund that has […]

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Indexing
Mutual Funds

What happens if Indexing becomes too successful for its own good?

In an article for the Wall Street Journal that was excerpted from his new book, “Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution,” John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group and creator of the first index mutual fund asked an interesting question: “What happens if it (indexing) becomes too successful for […]

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