In my new book, The Guru Investor, I detail ten of the best-performing stock-picking strategies of all-time. These guru-based approaches are a great way to get a leg up on the market, but, as I’ve found over the years, having a proven stock-picking methodology is just one part of the path to market-beating returns. Stock [...]
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Archive | February, 2009
PIMCO Boss: A New Take on Asset Allocation
February 6, 2009
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In this month’s Kiplinger’s magazine, PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian offers some interesting insights into diversification and risk management in an economic world that is in great flux. According to El-Erian, the old rules of diversification have changed in a couple different ways. First, with other countries catching up to the U.S., he says investors shouldn’t [...]
Read moreTilson & Heins: Look for Safer Buys in this Market
February 6, 2009
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In their latest “Discovering Value” column for Kiplinger’s, Whitney Tilson and John Heins warn that investors shouldn’t give in to the temptation to swing for the fences by buying speculative stocks after the recent market plunge, but instead should focus on solid, undervalued stocks. “Given the perilous state of the economy, this is not the [...]
Read morePIMCO’s Gross on Shadow Banking System — and the Key to Getting out of The Crisis
February 5, 2009
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While policy makers continue to debate what is the best way to halt the country’s financial crisis, “bond king” Bill Gross of PIMCO says it is clear what needs to be done. “The remedy for this deflationary delivering and mini-depression is simple and almost axiomatic,” Gross writes in his latest commentary on PIMCO’s web site. [...]
Read moreDreman & Dividends: Finding Value in The Market’s Unloved
February 4, 2009
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One of the hardest things to do as an investor is go against the grain. Being a contrarian by investing in stocks that no one else wants to touch with a ten-foot pole is difficult, especially in markets like this. But most good value investors, including Warren Buffett, David Dreman, John Neff and others use [...]
Read moreBuffett “Weighing Machine Metric”: Time to Buy Stocks
February 4, 2009
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A metric that Warren Buffett uses to assess the market’s valuation is now showing that it is a good time to buy stocks, Carol Loomis and Doris Burke write for Fortune. According to Loomis and Burke, Buffett believes that over the long term, there should be a “rational relationship between the total market value of [...]
Read moreThe Dreman Strategy: How to Turn Others’ Fears into Your Profits
February 3, 2009
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In my new investing book, The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies, I outlined the investment approaches of ten highly successful long-term investors. One of the individuals I highlight is the well-known contrarian, David Dreman. Dreman is chairman of Dreman Value Management and a longtime Forbes magazine investment columnist. [...]
Read moreBuffett, Lynch, Graham and Others. 10 Quant Strategies Outlined in New Book.
February 2, 2009
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I am excited to announce the publication of my new investment book, The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies. The book details the approaches used by some of history’s most successful investors such as Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch, and Warren Buffett, and shows you how you can implement their [...]
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