Modern Portfolio Theory Updated?
(B) The stock market in 2020 has been one of the weirdest ones that I ever witnessed, as it was insanely disconnected from the economy. While the economy shrunk due […]
Learning from Sequoia Capital
(B) After the successful IPOs of SnowFlake, Unity, and Sumo Logic, CNBC has published an article about Sequoia Capital “Silicon Valley’s most prominent VC firm had a banner week: $9 […]
SnowFlake Upcoming IPO
(B) The recent surreal time, due to Covid 19, has been a challenge for many start-ups in Silicon Valley since the capital markets have been dried for new IPOs. Without […]
Investing Like David Swensen
(B) Most investors buy high and sell low when they should do the reverse. To be able to buy low and sell high, investors need to maintain contrarian positions during […]
Investing Like Nassim Taleb
(B) By popular demand, and to help one of my best friends to better invest, I will be writing a few articles about great investors who inspired me. I am […]
Can Mobility Drive the NASDAQ to a New Bull Market?
(B) This week on CBNC, our hyper-energetic investor guru Jim Cramer made on his show Mad Money a wild prediction: the 12 day winning days that the Nasdaq had until it came to an […]
The Stock Market for Dummies
(E) While the stock market is unpredictable, its patterns are very repetitive. Those patterns are the same whether the stock market behaves and investors are making money or the stock […]
The Risk of a Black Swan in Your Portfolio
(B) Since worldwide equity markets peaked on October 2007, most market indexes and funds have lost between 40% and 60% of their values. Depending on the index and the fund, […]
Black Swans Gray Swans and White Swans
(E) Life is full of surprises. Good and bad. We all know that. What we learn over time is that a few of those surprises have sculptured the bodies of […]
Investing for Dummies
(E) Barron’s in its October 1, 2007 edition has ranked the top 50 hedge funds based on their average returns over the last three years (The article is available online […]
A Silicon Valley Insider 