Michael Batnick

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Articles The city’s cost of living was by far the highest among 821 school districts in the state, but its average teacher pay ranked No. 528 By Heather Knight For funds that hold exotic assets like palladium however, quirks in the underlying market can often lead to more unpredictable patterns By Carolina Wilson and Luzi-Ann Javier…

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Articles Don’t ask big companies who sell annuities if you should own one. By Tony Isola From a surface-level standpoint, it looks like we’re either too selective, or complacent. Neither could be further from the truth. By Brent Beshore A virus that mutates and evolves means a vaccine that might work today won’t work tomorrow….

Only a Market of Stocks

It’s hard to believe that the S&P 500 has been within 5% of its all-time high for the last 284 trading days, going all the way back to June, 2016. It would surprise no one if that streak ended sooner, rather than later. On Friday, The S&P 500 closed 1.99% below its all-time high. The…

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Articles Over-diversification can create a false sense of confidence whereby we believe we are well diversified, but in reality, a large number of investments actually share a common risk. By Corey Hoffstein An advisor who isn’t counting on some percentage of their clientele needing more than just emailed assurances probably isn’t being realistic. By Josh…

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Meb Faber recently asked three very interesting questions on Twitter. Do you currently own U.S. stocks? 87% Yes, 13% No (1,401 votes) Would you continue to hold U.S. stocks if valuations hit a 10-year PE (CAPE) of 50? 55% Yes, 45% No (1,282 votes) Would you continue to hold U.S. stocks if valuations hit a…

If This is 1929…

Eight days before the market bottomed in July 1932, Ben Graham wrote an article in Forbes, Should Rich But Losing Corporations Be Liquidated? In it he wrote, “More than one industrial company in three selling for less than its net current assets, with a large number quoted at less than their unencumbered cash.” At a time…

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Articles I asked if they measured the efficacy of the analysts’ historical picks. No. I asked if they measured the accuracy of the analysts’ fundamental estimates. No. By Leigh Drogen Curiosity’s treasures are a bitch to extract. By Mike Dariano You can’t see the end in advance, nor can I, nor can Druck. By Josh…

Ben Graham on Index Funds and Efficient Markets

Twenty-five years after he retired, at eighty-one years old and just six months before he passed, Ben Graham sat down for an hour with Hartman L. Butler. The whole interview is worth reading, but I pulled three sections that particularly stood out. HB: By some coincidence as you were becoming less active as a writer,…

The First 28 Days

There was a lot of attention given to the first 28 days of 2016. During that period, the S&P 500 fell 10.5%, which was the worst start to a year ever. Since that time, the S&P 500 is up 35%, the Dow is up 41%, the NASDAQ 100 is up 49%, and the Russell 2000…

A Millennial’s Rebuttal

Our intern Tommy Tranfo wrote a great piece about his generation and investing that I thought was worth sharing. In a recent Barron’s Next article, Why Won’t Millennials Embrace the Stock Market, they write, “The S&P 500 has grown over 75% in the past five years, yet, according to a new survey only 13% of millennials said…