While a number of recent financial scandals have led many investors to grow weary of the stock market, Motley Fool co-creators Tom and David Gardner say investors shouldn’t lose faith in stock investing. “I think that it is a great time to invest — I have always felt that way,” David tells Yahoo! Finance’s Daily […]
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A ‘Foolish’ Strategy That Trounces The Market
March 7, 2012 
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In a recent article for Canada’s Globe and Mail, Darcy Keith highlights Validea.com’s top-performing model, the strategy that Validea CEO John Reese bases on the approach of Tom and David Gardner of The Motley Fool. Validea’s 10-stock, monthly rebalanced Fool-inspired portfolio has returned 226.4% (14.7% annualized) since its 2003 inception, vs. just 34.3% (3.5% annualized) […]
Read moreSiegel on Dividends — and Why So Many Missed the Crash
January 18, 2012 0 Comments
Author and Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says dividends could — and should — be coming back into favor. In an interview with The Motley Fool’s Morgan Housel, Siegel discusses the reasons why dividend payouts have declined over the years, including tax issues and the fact that the rise of stock options as compensation have given […]
Read moreHow Many Stocks Is Enough?
December 30, 2011 1 Comment
How many stocks should an investor own in order to diversify away stock-specific risk? Some interesting data shows that it may be fewer than you think. The data comes from hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt’s book, You Can Be A Stock Market Genius, and was highlighted by top value investor Whitney Tilson a few years back […]
Read moreBig Returns in Small Stocks
July 26, 2011 0 Comments
In his latest article for Canada’s Globe and Mail, Validea CEO John Reese takes a look at his small-stock-focused Motley Fool-based strategy, which has returned 16.1% per year in its eight-year history in the U.S., vs. 3.5% for the S&P 500. “Just as analysts and institutional buyers (which are often too big to take a […]
Read more2010 Guru Report: Piotroski Approach Leads Way With 55% Gain
January 19, 2011 0 Comments
While 2010 was a good year for the broader stock market, it was an even better year for John Reese’s Validea.com Guru Strategies. For the full year, Reese’s guru-inspired 10-stock portfolios returned an average of 19.2%, easily outpacing the S&P 500′s 12.8% return. The best performer was the approach inspired by little-known professor Joseph Piotroski, […]
Read moreGardner Looks to Inflation-Fighters
December 7, 2010 0 Comments
Tom Gardner, co-founder and CEO of The Motley Fool, says he thinks the next ten years will be a much different story for stocks than the past ten years, and says investors should be keying on companies that have the ability to raise prices in an inflationary environment. In a wide-ranging interview with The Fool’s […]
Read moreGuru Strategy 7-Year Report Card: Ben Graham Still on Top
July 16, 2010 0 Comments
More than three decades after his death, Ben Graham is still beating the market. At least, Graham’s strategy is still handily beating the market, according to Validea.com’s guru-inspired portfolios, the original 10 of which recently hit the 7-year mark in terms of performance tracking. And the results show that Graham, known as “The Father of […]
Read more“Foolish” Gardner: Learn from Others, Focus on Fundamentals
September 28, 2009 0 Comments
Tom Gardner, co-founder and CEO of The Motley Fool, says in an interview with Forbes that two of the most important things an investor can do are being open to learning from other successful investors, and taking a long-term view of the stock market. Gardner, who founded The Motley Fool online community with his brother […]
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