One of the key questions any investor must grapple with is, “How many stocks should I own?” Jonathan Burton addresses that issue in a recent MarketWatch column, taking a look at focused funds — those that hold relatively few stocks compared to most other mutual funds. “Focused funds — portfolios with only a couple of [...]
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Tag Archives: The Guru Investor
Hot List: How to Combine Strategies to Minimize Risk, Maximize Returns
February 9, 2009
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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 [...]
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 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 moreJ. Zweig on Forecasting & Black Swans
January 28, 2009
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Jason Zweig unveils some great research in his latest piece for The Wall Street Journal (“Why Market Forecasts Keep Missing The Mark”). With all sorts of pundits making predictions for where the market will head in 2009, Zweig says you should be skeptical of their forecasts — and your own — a notion that I [...]
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