Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
BILL GROSSIn questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well.
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Imperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
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Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you’ll ever make.
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We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
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I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.
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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
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When you’re underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It’s not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We’re too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.
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The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, … you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor — not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.
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Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.
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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
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Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, ‘At least my wife loves me.’
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Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
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When the tide goes out, you get to see who’s swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
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Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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