Meb Faber Research – Stock Market and Investing Blog

Many investors dream of passive income.  They picture themselves on the beach sipping a pina colada, and enjoying the income of their portfolio rolling in. (But let's be honest, the Hans Gruber yield days are long gone...) What would you do to achieve an extra 1% or 2% a year, and consequently, an extra $10,000 or $20,000 on your portfolio? I know...

This is a pleasantly weird series from Institutional Investor magazine   Bill Gross   Mark Carhart   Britt Harris   Peter Lynch   Henry Kravis   Ken Griffin   Mario Gabelli   Howard Marks   Sallie Krawcheck  

That headline was a response I received from a handful of friends regarding my last post on buying puts as tail risk insurance. And I agree.  Well, sort of. It's been long known that there exists a premium for selling insurance...hey, otherwise why would anyone do it? Now what if you could combine the best of both?  Selling vol to capture the...

When the tech bubble collapsed back in 2000, the Nasdaq fell from 5,132 to just 1,470 a few months later. Many popular stocks found their market prices gutted. For example, Cisco lost 86% of its market cap, while Amazon fell over 90% from $107 to $7. Losses such as these decimated investor portfolios. In 2008, it happened again. The average...

Do you want to spend two years and owe roughly $160K for an MBA? (I'm not even counting the lost wages of not working during that period – for many, that means tack on another $100k+) Or instead, would you rather receive the equivalent of a Masters in Investing – and get paid to do it? Still on the fence?...