Everything about the investment approach at Baillie Gifford screams patience. Founded more than 110 years ago, the Scottish portfolio management firm, which oversees $250 billion, is a believer in the...
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The EV Market Is Growing Rapidly. How to Invest in Beneficiaries.
Brian Demain has a healthy respect for efficient markets and downside risk. In college, Demain wrote his senior thesis with guidance from Princeton University economics professor Burton G. Malkiel, go...
Bill Miller Is Still Bullish on Bitcoin—and a Lot More
Professional athletes like to retire after a good run. Legendary value investor Bill Miller is taking a different route. Miller, 72, is sticking with the plan he announced in January to hang up his in...
Ray Dalio, Founder of Hedge Fund Giant Bridgewater, Sees More Pain Ahead
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...
Ray Dalio Sees More Pain Ahead in This Debt Cycle
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.
Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...
Bond Market Turmoil Could Last a While. How to Ride It Out.
It is an exciting time for fixed income—and a terrifying one, too. Central banks are in the midst of the most dramatic tightening of monetary policy in a generation, which has helped push yields on so...
Quantitative Tightening Is About to Ramp Up. What It Means for Markets.
The Federal Reserve now owns about a third of both the Treasury and mortgage-backed-securities markets as a result of its emergency asset-buying to prop up the U.S. economy during the Covid-19 pandemi...
A Recession Is Coming. These Are the Stocks to Hunker Down In.
Eli Salzmann loves nothing better than finding a company that’s a “dog of a stock with no momentum” but on the verge of better days. At its core, that is what value investing is all about. Over the co...
America’s Retirement System Is Broken. This Economist Is Trying to Fix It.
Economist Alicia Munnell has been telling America it has a retirement problem for decades, and by most measures it has gotten worse. Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, which she heads, c...
James Anderson of Baillie Gifford on Illumina, Moderna, and Other Companies That Matter
James Anderson, a partner at Scottish money manager Baillie Gifford, has personified growth-stock investing during his 39 years with the firm. He was an early backer of Amazon.com, Tesla, and other “e...
Cheap, Boring Advice for Retirement Savers: Minimize Taxes, Rebalance Regularly
Wealth advisor Susan Elser of Indianapolis says investing should be cheap and unexciting. Her firm has six advisors and manages $635 million in assets. She has no research staff to keep costs down, an...
The 4% Rule Might Not Work, This Retirement Expert Says. Here’s His Strategy for a Downturn.
Economist Wade Pfau has been thinking about retirement since he was in 20s. But not just his own retirement. Pfau started studying Social Security for his dissertation while getting his Ph.D. at Prin...
Why a Bearish Money Manager Likes Gambling Stocks and Is Ready to Dump Apple
Dan Niles thinks the stock market is headed lower. Maybe a lot lower. A Stanford University–trained electrical engineer who once worked at the old minicomputer giant Digital Equipment, Niles has focus...