The total return of the average distressed bond exceeded 30% in 2024, beating the S&P 500 Index’s total return, which was well above its own historical average, at 25%. Still, with many big losers in that average, picking the right bonds is essential with distressed investing.
Selling shares too soon can be worse than buying poor-performing shares. No matter what happens in markets or the economy, great businesses tend to do well over the long run. It’s almost always a mistake to sell them.
One of the largest and wealthiest communities in the U.S. has been largely destroyed, with over 15,000 structures burned across 63 square miles, an area roughly the size of Washington, D.C. In today’s Daily Journal, Porter examines how this disaster plays out across the property-and-casualty insurance industry.
At current valuations, it is virtually certain that investors buying the S&P 500 – especially the largest and most overvalued stocks – will be severely disappointed since future returns for at least the next decade will be paltry.
This company became Warren Buffett’s playbook for Berkshire Hathaway. Acquire the asset at a large discount to net asset value, borrow against those assets, use the losses from the legacy business to offset gains from new acquisitions, liquidate the legacy business… and profit massively as the new company grows.
This company was built on the idea of technology “outpacing the law,” and it’s turbocharged a staggeringly effective online network of customers that circumvents traditional business practices in more than 70 countries… And is now generating a profit and shares will soon begin to rise.
A president threatening to set up a second revenue agency for the federal government isn’t good news. It’s horrifying, Porter reports, on the news that the incoming Trump administration has proposed an External Revenue Service.
For 2025’s inaugural issue of the Spotlight, we’re joined by a financial savant who is sharing his top 10 strategies for making 2025 a far wealthier year for you and your loved ones.
Equity prices are at multi-decade highs. As such, Porter predicts, it will take at least a decade for many of today’s S&P 500 members to “grow” into their current valuations.
