Salient to Investors: Mark Hulbert writes: Avoid mutual funds whose recent performance has begun to slip, no matter how good their performance might have been in previous years. Favor funds with stellar recent returns, even if their longer-term performance is dismal. No Load Fund X is the best performing stock-mutual-fund
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Laurence D. Fink at BlackRock said we have not seen any large major change in attitude in bonds are not seeing the same investor appetite for long-dated bonds, which will persist for some time. Fink sees no evidence of a large-scale rotation into stocks from bonds as global and high-yield
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Rolf Dobelli writes: News is bad for your health, leads to fear and aggression, and hinders creativity and ability to think deeply. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. Small bites of trivial matter don’t require thinking which is why we experience almost
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Seth Masters at Bernstein Global Wealth Mgmt says: Bubbles today are driven by fear and investors’ desire for safety versus greed and recklessness in the past. Supposed safe havens of gold, bonds and dividend-paying stocks are dangerously overpriced. Over the past 5 years more than a trillion
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Students at more than 300 campuses, including the eight Ivy League schools, have joined fossil-fuel divestment activist group 350.org demanding that over the next 5 years universities purge their endowments of investments in 200 publicly traded companies with the largest reserves of oil, gas and coal. Scientists
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Gross at Pimco said: The most renowned investors from Buffett to Fuss to Soros may owe their reputations to the most attractive era for money management as expanding credit fueled gains in asset prices across markets. Maybe the era made the man, not the man who made the era – the real test of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeremy Grantham at Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo says: The US is muddling through reasonably well in the short-term, but long-term we are in a slowdown unappreciated by most economists – because they are not interested in the long-term. US growth won’t ever return to previous levels because
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Studies suggest that investors who use advisers get better returns than individuals going at it alone. Advisers usually have confidence and discipline that are key factors in successful investing. Most people do not have the time or interest in managing their own portfolios. Individual investors can be
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Luke Sims at Eagle Capital Growth Fund said Warren Buffett is trying to build up his stock pickers Combs and Weschler to show he hired the right money managers to succeed him. Buffett book author Jeff Matthews said the 2012 performance by Combs and Weschler was extraordinary but wants to see
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Going to court to prove that a mutual fund charges small investors excessive fees is often an exercise in futility because the courts have set the bar so high for plaintiffs that most suits are dismissed before they even get to trial. Niels Holch at the Coalition of
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