In his latest column for the New York Times, Mark Hulbert examines an interesting study on buy-and-hold investing. The study — “When Everyone Runs for the Exit,” by Lasse H. Pedersen, professor of finance at New York University, concludes that it’s not traders or true long-term buy-and-hold investors who get hurt the most in a [...]
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Top Strategists Talk “Buy-and-Hold”
July 28, 2009
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The Financial Times recently interviewed several top strategists about the viability of “buy-and-hold” investing, and found that some are espousing more of a “buy-cheap-and-hold” approach. “In a challenge to the received wisdom of holding stock market investments for 20 years or more, to smooth out short-term volatility, some suggest that measures of cheapness can be [...]
Read moreMauldin: This Time It Really Is Different (Sort Of)
June 23, 2009
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In his latest “Thoughts from The Frontline” newsletter, John Mauldin makes a pretty bold proclamation that goes against a long-held principle of investing — this time, he says, things really are different. “If memory serves me, I have written several e-letters disparaging various personages who have uttered those very words, and gone one to confirm [...]
Read moreOberweis: Don’t Ditch Buy-and-Hold
June 22, 2009
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While buy-and-hold investing continues to draw criticism from some pundits, money manager and newsletter guru Jim Oberweis begs to differ. In a recent interview with The Motley Fool, Oberweis says that buy-and-hold is alive and well, because timing the market remains an incredibly difficult task. “Show me some quantitative evidence that someone’s right, and then [...]
Read moreBogle on What “Long-Term” Really Means, and Stock-Picking Dangers
June 18, 2009
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Jack Bogle covers a wide variety of topics in a recent interview with The Motley Fool, including just what the “long-term” in “long-term investing” should mean, why traders usually lose out, asset allocation, and whether the S&P 500 is a “good” index. Bogle’s belief that that the best approach for individual investors is to hold [...]
Read moreBogle on Valuations, the Economy, and Where to Invest Now
June 1, 2009
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In a recent interview with MarketWatch, John Bogle says he thinks the market “probably has it about right” in terms of current valuations, but adds that investors should expect slower growth than they’ve grown accustomed to when the economy does turn around. “I would guess the market probably has it about right,” Bogle said. “I [...]
Read moreHedge Fund Guru: Buy & Hold Far from Dead
April 13, 2009
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Is buy-and-hold dead? Lloyd Khaner, whose hedge fund has a successful two-decade track record, tells Forbes.com that he doesn’t think so — though he says successful implementation of a buy-and-hold approach isn’t as simple as many assume. “Buy and hold for the smaller, individual investor is not gone,” says Khaner, whose Khaner Capital fund (which [...]
Read moreGrantham: There’s Risk in Value — and in Buy-and-Hold
February 16, 2009
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Jeremy Grantham has released the second half of his fourth-quarter 2008 letter on GMO’s website, and in it he offers several intriguing points about why value investors got hit hard in 2008, where the economy is headed, and whether a buy-and-hold approach to stock investing makes sense. Calling 2008 “The Year of The Value Trap”, [...]
Read moreWhy Buy & Hold Isn’t Dead
December 4, 2008
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Validea CEO John Reese today writes for MSN’s Strategy Lab that those proclaiming the death of buy-and-hold investing are premature in their claims — very premature. Buy-and-hold has a two-century-plus track record of success, Reese says; for market-timers to claim that the approach is “dead” after one very bad year or so just doesn’t make [...]
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