Investment Chronicles
Legendary fund manager Peter Lynch recently shared his thoughts on how investing has changed since he retired from managing money in 1990 (from Yahoo! Finance on June 20)…
What are the biggest changes for investors today since you wrote [One Up On Wall Street]? Data is more available now. The things I was talking about are a lot easier for average folks now, people who want to do some work. Back 35 years ago, we all, say, it was Nike, used to wait
A unique strategy to earn “equity-like returns with debt-like risk” in volatile emerging markets, that could be useful in the years ahead (from Verdad Research’s Emerging Markets Crisis Investing)…
Over the past 30 years, buy-and-hold investors in emerging markets (EM) have endured high volatility for disappointing returns. $100 invested in the S&P 500 in 1989 would have been worth $1,900t today, after experiencing a 15% standard deviation throughout this period. The same $100 invested in EM would have been worth $1,340, having experienced a
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continues to buy shares of Occidental Petroleum (OXY), and now owns roughly 25% of shares outstanding. Here’s a look at what the legendary investor may see in the company today (from Kingswell on May 23)…
Occidental Petroleum is fast becoming one of the linchpins of Berkshire’s portfolio. And, as such, it’s a company that all Berkshire followers (myself included) should become better acquainted with. So I spent the weekend digging up more information on Oxy, its history with Berkshire Hathaway, what Warren Buffett sees in it today — and where