There’s some great investing advice out there, but plenty of bad advice as well. Like, oh, this pearl of wisdom: “It doesn’t matter how high the price is — buy all the Enron you can.”
While you can spend all day listing smart and useful investment advice, I got to thinking about great advice that’s no [...]
Those who shy away from investing in anything but cash face missing out on the potential higher returns offered by investing in equities and other assets.
But the world of investing can seem a daunting one, so here we offer
investment virgins a guide [...]
The athletic director is talking about education and the full college experience. The president is talking about succeeding at the highest level.
Only in the melodramatic reality show that has become Washington athletics could you find such a role reversal.
Up is down. Vegans eat meat. Owls like the sunlight.
Normalcy will resume soon. We think.
When it does, [...]
My introduction to cellphone solicitation recently arrived in the form of a note from “Roman.”
It said, “Get software 80 % o.f.f. 9fast-secure-immediate download) visit:” and it listed a Web site that I wasn’t even able to reach.
Clearly the note indicated trouble because I don’t know anyone named Roman, and if I did, he probably wouldn’t [...]
A former minority owner of the Sonics and Storm says he has put together a local group that wants to buy the teams back from Clay Bennett to keep them in Seattle.
Dennis Daugs, who owns a Seattle investment-management firm, sent a letter to Bennett on Thursday saying he represents the potential buyers, including other former [...]
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
If you can grasp this simple advice from Warren Buffett, you should do well as an investor. Sure, there are other investment strategies out there, but Buffett’s approach is both easy to follow and demonstrably [...]
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
If you can grasp this simple advice from Warren Buffett, you should do well as an investor. Sure, there are other investment strategies out there, but Buffett’s approach is both easy to follow and demonstrably [...]
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
If you can grasp this simple advice from Warren Buffett, you should do well as an investor. Sure, there are other investment strategies out there, but Buffett’s approach is both easy to follow and demonstrably [...]
Editor’s note: This commentary was updated on Nov. 17, 2005 for clarity.
Let me ask you one question before we get started. Why did you want to read an article called “Bad Investment Advice”? I mean, why not just pop over to the “Ruin Your Life” article or the “Download a Computer-Killing Virus” site [...]
It’s a cardinal principle of smart fund investing: Buy the manager, not the fund. Alas, like most pieces of investment “advice” that are a little too pithy for their own good — not to mention yours — it’s a catchy phrase that’ll likely leave you scratching your head after the charm of its bumper sticker [...]
