Warren Buffett has a seemingly unassailable reputation as the world’s #1 investor. Yet, even as Buffett has outperformed the S&P 500 over the past decade, the “Oracle of Omaha” has stressed that Berkshire Hathaway’s sheer size limits his ability to | Read More »

As I’ve written before, I’m a big fan of quotes. A good quote — once you really “get” it — can summarize a lifetime of wisdom in a few words. That’s also why I include a new quote in each | Read More »

While most U.S. investors are transfixed by the U.S. government shutdown, there are a handful of stock markets across the world that have been shooting the lights out since Americans returned from their Labor Day picnics. At my firm Global | Read More »

For a period of more than 20 years stretching back into the mid-1980s, university endowments seemed blessed by fairy dust. The top three U.S. university endowments — Yale, Harvard and Stanford — consistently returned more than 15% per year over | Read More »

The United States is obsessed by rankings. Walk by any magazine rack, and you’ll see that it is the issues with the rankings of colleges, hospitals, football or basketball teams that are the most thumbed through. Sadly, in the game | Read More »

Emerging Markets have had a lousy 2013. The threat of tapering by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the biggest emerging-market currency sell-off in five years and improving prospects for the developed markets of the United States and Europe have made emerging | Read More »

September has a reputation as the worst month of the year for stock markets. Throw in the uncertainty surrounding Syria, still anemic U.S. employment numbers and the threat of the Fed’s tapering of bond purchases on Sept. 18 hanging like | Read More »

“Speculation” has an image problem. Index fund pioneer John Bogle recently wrote a book on “The Clash of Cultures: Investing versus Speculation,” where he trashed the idea of trying to make money by doing anything else besides investing in an | Read More »

If you’ve been investing only in U.S. stock markets this year, you probably haven’t noticed that 2013 has been a rough year for global stocks. For all of the current hand wringing about the impact of the Fed’s imminent tapering | Read More »

This year, I’ve traveled to and spent time in some of the most economically cutting-edge regions of the world. I spent New Year’s Eve in Istanbul, Turkey, which is the capital of one of the fastest-growing economies in the world | Read More »

Even as the U.S. stock market struggled to find its footing during the past two weeks after a strong July, a handful of other stock markets in the world have continued their blistering rise into August. Foremost among these star | Read More »

Warren Buffett is a hard man to outperform on the investment front. Yet, that’s exactly the goal I set for myself.

Biotechnology is a high-octane sector where fortunes are made and lost quickly. That’s because investing in biotech stocks is a lot like investing in small-cap mining stocks or Silicon Valley start-ups. You have to kiss a lot of investment frogs | Read More »

“Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” It was just over 26 years ago, on June 12, 1987, when President Ronald Reagan stood in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and delivered this now famous | Read More »

Over the past decade, Google Inc. (GOOG) has become much more than the world’s favorite Internet search engine. With its relentless ambition and capacity to deliver a flow of unexpected products, Google is rapidly emerging as the dominant consumer technology | Read More »

Among the global investing set, the U.S. stock market is red hot. Among the 39 global stock markets I follow on a daily basis, the United States is now the No. 2 performer year to date — trailing only Japan. | Read More »

Most investors would love to forget the last six weeks. After all, even the most robust and time-tested investment strategies have suffered. Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater All Weather Fund — one of the largest hedge funds in the world — sailed | Read More »

You’ve probably heard that the Chinese stock market has been hit hard in the past few days. And overnight, Shanghai suffered another sharp fall, at one point dropping 3.8% to break below 1,900 for the first time since the first | Read More »

Emerging markets have been a bust so far in 2013. While U.S. stocks have soared this year, the largest emerging market exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have fallen off a cliff over the past month or so. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets | Read More »

George Soros’ investment track record has made him the equivalent of a .400 hitter in baseball. Yet, in a decade that has been lousy for all investors, even the “Grandaddy of Hedge Fund Managers” has had it tough. Indeed, 2010 | Read More »