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Excellent advice. It is critical to not act emotionally during market downturns.

I slice and dice also with about 6 funds. I am surprised so many people have more than 12 funds.

Top hedge funds have offered high returns with low correlations to general markets. These beneficial characteristics are supported by the huge flow of capital to the hedge fund space over the past 10 ...

My 100% equities portfolio that is overweight value and small cap stocks is down about 13% this year. (Yesterday didn't help)

I agree it is a tradition. Many people use the S&P now as the market though.

Yeah there is no problem with starting now if you will have future earned income this year.

Yeah this rule is kind of complete BS. It isn't really going to do much. It only lasts 7 days. Basically before when shorting you just needed a locate from a broker who had a reasonable assumption tha ...

While no mutual fund lost 100%, PBHG, American Heritage and the like came pretty darn close Smile

, but even those mutual funds look respectable when compared to hedge funds.

The hedge fund industry (t ...

I think this is a good contrarian indicator, but it is impossible to pick a bottom . The best idea is to keep investing for the long run and re balance your portfolio.

I share many of the feelings echoed that some hedge funds are not wise investments and the fee structure for those funds is not reasonable.

The fund featured in this article was highly concentrated ...

I am currently interning at a top 40 hedge fund in terms of AUM.

First, I think it is important to end up at a fund with a large amount of assets as there are definite economies of scale in this b ...

I'm interested in Piper's question too. GWX and SCZ seem more like true indexes than WisdomTree. GWX has a volume of over 100,000 shares and an average market cap portfolio of about 950 million.

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Like others have said this is a good time to test your ability to stay the course . At my firm, I hear many people saying they are allocating all of their 401k contributions to cash. By staying the co ...

I blog at SharpeInvesting.com (http://www.sharpeinvesting.com/). I try to blog about more advanced financial concepts and also more material related to investment banking and other wall street careers ...

Other posters have echoed this argument, but the 5 year time frame is data mining. If you look at longer timer frames, which yield more beneficial information, BRK has performed very well. Also, it ma ...

I have a 20in and 17in lcd monitors side by side. It makes doing work and almost every activity on the computer better.

The wisdom of buffet and many of these other famous investors is further highlighted by the failures of hedge funds and other advanced investment strategies.

Pillar 5 - http://www.diehards.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4817&highlight=pillar

Pillar 4 - http://www.diehards.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4686

I am currently determining how to slice and dice the international component of my portfolio. Currently the international segment of my portfolio is all in a taxable account invested in the vanguard t ...

As a young investor I am hoping for a market crash. However, as a young person seeking future employment, I am nervous that the market will impact the finance job market.

I also think the fed should stand firm for the short term. Bailing out those who took huge risk would not be wise long term option. Also, I think as a bull market progresses, people become more acusto ...

This is a critical point. Costs can have dramatic impact over the long run. I think most bogleheads view this point as common sense or a "no brainer." However, as Bogle was saying, many new ...

Goldman sachs also has a similar market called GSTRUE. The central idea is to reduce regulation but still allow companies to raise capital.I think this idea will be popular for hedge funds, and Privat ...

Performance of investment advice from newsletters has historically been very poor. Many newsletters that perform well in previous years do poorly in future years.

I think the point about using news ...

China and the US have an interdependence that reduces the odds that China would ever do something like this. Also, China has made investments in the US, such as a $3Billion investment in Blackstone.

Interesting Discussion.

Has Bogle's opinion about international allocations changed? I thought he suggested no need for international allocation or a very small international allocation because a l ...

Alternative investment exchanges also seem to be gaining popularity. Recently, Goldman Sach's created GSTrUE and NASDAQ is also considering creating a somewhat unregulated private exchange. These allo ...

I would just wait for the admiral, but I think this choice is also a factor of how frequently you make conributions. The more frequently you make contributions, the higher total commissions will be wh ...

Funny article....It is always good to be a hedge fund manager, but not always good to be a hedge fund investor.

I have looked for other investing forums, but none compare to the quality of this forum.

I don't watch that much TV either. However, I really enjoy watching sports, news, and documentaries on TV. People need some form of entertainment. Not everyone is entertained by sitting in a room and ...

Thanks Larry. In general, I think this post illustrates how little even experts know about what the direction the market or specific sectors are moving. I think this further demonstrates the importanc ...

I think client loyalty can also hurt investors. For example, many people invest money with financial planners. Many of these planners utilize load funds that have high expenses. However, clients becom ...

Barclays seems to be showing more interest in indexing. I recently heard that Barclays is creating, or has already created, target retirement funds for large companies' retirement plants that are most ...

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but make sure to check with your child's school if they have special student discounts. The college I go has special student deals with dell and Apple, for exa ...

I think socially responsible is a good idea and theory and it is good to support companies that help their employees, the environment, and other areas. However, I don't think there are attractive fund ...

As the previous poster mentioned Swensen's strategy relied on heavily on the use of alternative assets. A large amount of the portfolio was in real estate, natural resources, and there were also alloc ...

Thanks for the link. I'm looking forward to watching the interview.

There is a front page article in the Wall Street Journal about the whole foods CEO. It appears, the CEO has a large ego or is atleast very competitive.

From the article:

John Mackey has never ne ...

Also, Morningstar and MSN Money have very good free portfolio trackers. You enter specific transactions from investments in your portfolio and the programs can track performance information and other ...

I would believe that few people actually underweight large cap stocks, when looking at investors in the aggregate - but for the few that do understand the small premium, many of those that underweig ...

In other words, in the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

This is an excerpt from the article you pos ...

Here are my brief recommendations without getting into specific allocation percentages.

It appears you have either been performance chasing (picking investments based on recent performance) or have ...

I agree with the above posters. You are in a low tax bracket. It is probable that you will be in a higher tax bracket at retirement, or national tax rates in general will be higher. While it may be at ...

I have always been impressed with Buffett's ideas. Even though he is an active investor, he still engages in a strategy supported by many of the suggestions presented on this forum. For example, Buffe ...

I think this is a very important concept. With the overwhelming amount of investing information and media, it is easy to assume that investing is a difficult task that requires the help of "exper ...

The excel help forum (google that name for it) is a great place to ask specific excel questions.

Bogle sites drawbacks to etfs in [url=http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid86195573/bclid86272812/bctid1043345575]this video on the Wall street journal online.

I found this William Bengen article to be interesting. It's one of the Journal of Financial Planning's Best of 25 Years articles and it's entitled Determining Withdrawal Rates Using Historical DataDes ...