Warren Buffett’s “Know-Nothing” Portfolios: A Critical Perspective
Buffett calls indexing a ‘know-nothing’ strategy – but this ‘protection against ignorance’ beats most active investors trying to prove they ‘know something.’ Sometimes, the wisest approach is admitting you don’t know, and your crystal ball 🔮 is cloudy. On the other hand, $XLK > $QQQ > $SPY > $VTI > $VXUS for 10 years now. Can that continue?
Buy and hold – 50 years of stock market ups and downs amidst news and noise, crisis, war, and recession.
See the case for buy-and-hold investing: fifty years of stock market ups and downs amidst news, noise, crisis, war, and recession.
ARK Big Ideas – Investments with Conversational Alpha.
Check out the remarkable ARK Big Ideas 2022 slide deck. ARK’s big investment ideas include artificial intelligence (AI), battery technology, electric vehicles, green energy, blockchain including cryptocurrency, bitcoin, fintech, robotics, and automation, including 3D printing, gene sequencing, and biotechnology. It’s chock full of fun and informative futuristic factoids and tidbits.
Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Whether you hold investments or uninvested cash, you need to know when to buy, sell, or do nothing. It’s an unavoidable high-stakes decision…
What’s the Best Online Brokerage?
Online brokers are a proven smart way to invest. And they’re not just for do-it-yourself investors. In this article posted to Linkedin, I reveal how to select the best online broker.
The Stock Market Crash of 1987
Here is how the Stock Market Crash of 1987 went down. Crash, volatility, consolidation. The bottom was in. There was no recession…. Critical rules for making money in the stock market: Don’t Sell at the Bottom in a Panic and Don’t Panic and Sell at the Bottom.
Online Broker Commission and Margin Rates Comparison Grid
Check out this Cost Comparison of Commission and Margin Rates at Interactive Brokers (IB), E*Trade, Fidelity, Scottrade, Schwab, TD Ameritrade and Vanguard. Talk to Successful Portfolios’ team of expert Certified Financial Planners and Chartered Financial Analysts. We’ll help you choose the best online broker to suit your investment management objectives.
Cost Basis and Holding Period for Appreciated Stock Received as a Gift
Here’s how to report on your tax return the cost basis and holding period for appreciated stock you sold and that you had acquired as a gift:
SP’s Low Volatility Strategy: Snapshot of Account “BEC1” Investment Performance using IB Portfolio Analyst
Presented in the graphic shown below is the inception-to-date comparative performance of Successful Portfolios’ Low Volatility Investment Strategy (BEC1) and a blended index of 70% Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF (VT) and 30% Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND). We prepared this presentation using Interactive Brokers Portfolio Analyst.
SP’s Mean Reversion Strategy: Snapshot of Account “EC1” Investment Performance using IB Portfolio Analyst
We present the inception-to-date comparative performance of Successful Portfolios’ Mean Reversion Investment Strategy (EC1) and the Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF (VT). We prepared the presentation using Interactive Brokers Portfolio Analyst.
