The Orlando Sentinel reported that the Walt Disney Company retirement plan committee is facing a class-action lawsuit for offering the Sequoia Fund in its portfolio of investment choices for employees. Why? Because Sequoia lost 7.3% last year and is down over 13% this year, mostly due to one bad investment: Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Over the last…
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This blog was prompted by an article in the SJ Mercury News reporting that Jake Peavy, the San Francisco Giants pitcher, had been defrauded out of more than $15M by Ash Narayan, a financial advisor with RGT Capital Management in Irvine, CA. According to the SEC lawsuit, Narayan had fraudulently shifted $33M from client accounts…
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Today’s unexpected vote by U.K. citizens to exit the European Union (EU) has resulted in stock market turmoil worldwide. Unsurprisingly European stocks have taken a beating. U.K. stocks dropped over 3%, German stocks over 6%, and in France the CAC-40 plunged over 8%. Even the Japanese Nikkei fell over 7%, its worst single-day performance in…
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If you were holding an S&P 500 mutual fund in 2008 that dropped 37%, you’d likely feel that your fund should go down in history as one of the worst ever. But in reality the fund didn’t do anything wrong except to invest in a part of the market that happened to experience a calamitous…
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It’s well-understood that as we age, we experience a general decline in our physical health. And there is increasing evidence that cognitive decline in old age is also natural and inevitable, and cannot be slowed by education or intelligence, nor by so-called brain exercises such as solving crossword puzzles. Our brain, like the rest of…
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Are you currently holding a mutual fund that is not performing well compared to your other assets? Before dumping it, consider that it might be an indicator that your investment portfolio is well-diversified. I’ve written often on this topic, but it’s still worth reviewing how diversification works. In non-mathematical terms, it’s the inclusion of multiple…
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