Over 50 million U.S. households – almost one in two – own mutual funds today. The U.S. mutual fund market, with over $10 trillion in assets under management, remains the largest in the world, accounting for nearly half of the mutual fund assets worldwide. Investments into mutual funds have poured in at a staggering pace over the […]
Whenever someone finds out that I’m a stock investor, I often get asked a very familiar question. It’s an honest question and it deserves an honest answer. The question is this – “What will the stock market do next?” Or, it’s close cousin… “Can you tell me what stock will double in the next 6 months?” My reply […]
If you study Warren Buffett’s style of investing for any amount of time, you will inevitably come across his two rules of investing: #1. Never lose money and #2. Never forget rule #1. I remember my initial thoughts on reading these rules for the first time – I thought, this can’t be right. My studies of […]
Warren Buffett recently released his 2014 letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. For the first time, he included the historical stock price in his annual letter, which has increased by, hold your breath, 1,826,163% in the last 50 years! The 2014 letter is special not just because it marked the completion of 50 years of Buffett […]