Meb Faber Research – Stock Market and Investing Blog

This excerpt is from the book Global Asset Allocation now available on Amazon as an eBook.   If you promise to write a review, go here and I’ll send you a free copy. ---- “Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business and a third let him keep by him...

This excerpt is from the book Global Asset Allocation now available on Amazon as an eBook.   If you promise to write a review, go here and I’ll send you a free copy. ---- Andrew Tobias has written twelve books, including selling over a million copies of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need. He proposes another basic Lazy Portfolio with only...

This excerpt is from the book Global Asset Allocation now available on Amazon as an eBook.   If you promise to write a review, go here and I’ll send you a free copy. ---- I would classify both my mother and grandmother as traditional Southern cooks.  Their style was very much of the “finger” variety.  While they may have a broad...

We sent this to The Idea Farm, and I'm a big fan of the work Norbert and crew do at Star Capital. Click to enlarge.  

I wrote about mean reversion in my book The Ivy Portfolio back in 2008.  Below is a chart from the book with a couple studies of what has happened after you buy assets down multiple years in a row. (You can also search the blog archives for words like "reversion" to find lots of old posts like this on...

Over two years ago I did a post called "Five Million Dollar Investing Ideas", though you could now replace "Investing" with "Fintech".  I update the status of all of the ideas at the bottom of the post, and it is great to see many companies tackling the opportunities there.  Lots of innovation going on in our space, even if some of the...

Below are some basic charts of the main asset classes with our old 10 month simple moving average overlaid.  The old QTAA model would be parked in a whopping 80% or so cash and bonds right now.  It is surprising to see, but the only market still in an uptrend is US stocks (I'm ignoring ethanol and cattle).  That...

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Back in 2000 I was a biomedical engineering student at Virginia (who happens to be in the College baseball World Series, go Hoos!).  I was in love with genetics and all things biotech, but also spent plenty of time reading annual reports and buying and selling (often shorting) stocks.  One of the classes I enrolled in outside of engineering (if you...