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Our society is not just divided along political lines — media, culture, and even coffee shops have become delineated between red and blue. So perhaps it is inevitable that these fissures would come to the world of investing. I’m speaking about the growth of so-called ESG investing — which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance — and the growing backlash against this trend. Battle lines are being formed in the heretofore apolitical, clubby world of money management. The roots… Source link

‘The tide has changed’: This investing veteran says hot inflation and a tight Fed call for a shift in strategy. He likes 3 specific areas for protection 2022 continues to give growth stocks — particularly those in the tech sector — a blunt reality check. The tech-centric Nasdaq index is down 24% year to date, more than double the 10% decline of the Dow over the same period. Story continues MoneyWise recently interviewed investing veteran Claudio Chisani — investment advisor and portfolio… Source link

Ex-Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt says he’s invested “a little bit” of money into cryptocurrencies — but for him, the most interesting part of blockchain isn’t virtual currency. It’s Web3. “A new model [of the internet] where you as an individual [can] control your identity, and where you don’t have a centralized manager, is very powerful. It’s very seductive and it’s very decentralized,” Schmidt, 67, tells CNBC Make It. “I remember that feeling when I was 25 that decentralized would… Source link

The meme stock craze — which multiplied the value of beleaguered companies like GameStop (GME) and squeezed hedge funds that bet against them — became a symbol of the populist fight between small-time traders and Wall Street juggernauts. But the most visible figures associated with the movement on behalf of everyday traders, which took off in January 2021, shared something in common: their gender. Keith Gill, a day trader who rose to prominence through his YouTube persona “Roaring Kitty,”… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, April 27, 2022 “I recommend the S&P 500 index fund and have for a long, long time to people,” billionaire investor Warren Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting last May. That’s been pretty good advice, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he repeated it again at the upcoming shareholder meeting on Saturday. In… Source link

General Motors (GM) has been revving up its electric vehicle business. And Cathie Wood is taking notice. The innovation-focused, Tesla (TSLA)-loving Ark Invest CEO — a vocal critic of legacy automakers who predicted not long ago that GM will go bankrupt — is changing her tune on the Detroit-based car manufacturer as it commits to an electric future, Wood signaled in an interview with Yahoo Finance. She also revealed that her investment management firm recently met with General Motors CEO… Source link

Pressure has mounted in recent weeks on U.S. pensions to dump Russian assets, but policymakers scrambling to unwind investments face a bigger moment of truth — what about their holdings in other autocratic regimes? Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted many of the largest public pension plans to quickly divest from Russian securities or trim their exposure to harder-to-exit allocations. The first-of-its-kind move to exit so abruptly put into question the… Source link

Warren Buffett is channeling one of his long-held investing philosophies in his recent flurry of buzzy deals, says one fellow value-focused investor. That is to be greedy when others in the market are fearful. “I think he is reminding us that when the tide goes out, we see who has been swimming,” remarked Research Affiliates CEO Chris Brightman on Yahoo Finance Live. The 91-year-old billionaire investor revealed Monday that his Berkshire Hathaway will spend $11.6 billion to buy insurance… Source link

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk posted in a Twitter thread on Monday advising followers to own “physical things” when inflation is high. In the tweet, Musk said “As a general principle, for those looking for advice from this thread, it is generally better to own physical things like a home or stock in companies you think make good products, than dollars when inflation is high. I still own & won’t sell my Bitcoin, Ethereum or Doge fwiw.” The biggest takeaway for some followers… Source link

Russia invaded Ukraine Thursday, shelling key strategic targets.Vadim Zamirovsky/AP Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO Lisa Shalett said the Russia-Ukraine conflict will keep markets in risk-off mode for weeks. She said a rapidly-changing situation often results in a flight out of risk assets, but this isn’t a good strategy in the longer run. Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday in the region’s largest military operation since World War 2. Financial markets have been roiled this week after… Source link