History’s Best Investors: Then and Now

by Zack on 03/05/2012 with
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I have a secret for you: do it yourself investors can invest (almost) exactly like Buffett. By piggybacking on Buffett’s quarterly filings, investors can build a winning portfolio by buying what he’s buying. And it works pretty well — a paper devoted to the subject found that investors imitating Buffett could come pretty close to getting the same fat returns he does.

I thought it would be interesting then to compile a 2012 list of the best investors in history because, hey, imitating them is an awesome form of flattery (and in many cases, profits, too).

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SigFig Wins Windows 8 First Apps Contest

by Patrick on 02/29/2012 with

We recognize the fact that our users want access to all of their investments, across all the devices they love – which is why a third of the SigFig team is dedicated to building a seamless SigFig experience across every major mobile platform. With that being said, the mobile team and I are proud to announce that we not only added Windows 8 to our family of mobile apps, we also won the Windows Mobile 8 First Apps contest yesterday.

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Madison Square Garden’s Stock Is Going Linsane!

by Zack on 02/29/2012 with
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Every once in a while, someone emerges who’s able to electrify millions of people. The New York Knick’s Jeremy Lin is definitely one of those people. He may very single-highhandedly make the NBA’s most valuable franchise even more valuable with his Ivy League-inspired, rags-to-riches, dominating play. On February 6th, in an almost fit of desperation during a losing streak, the Knicks put Harvard grad Lin in to play. Since then, he’s been a sensation on and off the court and the value of MSG stock has taken off.

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Investing In a Low-Interest Rate World: Replacing Treasuries

by Zack on 01/30/2012 with
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Last month in the Wall Street Journal, Burton Malkiel (the famous American economist behind A Random Walk Down Wall Street) recommended three courses of action investors could take to earn more on their investments. His op-ed was triggered by his growing concern for investors in U.S. Treasury bonds.  As an indexer and champion of good asset allocation, he’s particularly alarmed at the safe part of investor portfolios — the part made up of cash and government bonds.  He doesn’t believe yields on Treasury Bonds are going to keep pace with inflation for the next few years. If he’s right, you may need to re-think your bond allocation.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Apple Q1 2012 Earnings By The Numbers

by Chris on 01/24/2012 with
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Well, it’s that time again. The time Apple ($AAPL), the granddaddy of all tech stocks, reports its quarterly earnings. Investors, analysts, pretty much everyone on the planet sits on the edge of their seats, eagerly awaiting results from the consumer electronics firm. To put Apple’s Q1 earnings into context, we dug around in the data a bit to help make sense of it all.

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