Stock Market Investing Financial Advice

The Compound News is a curated financial advice aggregator for all things related to investing and the stock market.

“Most people are woefully unprepared for the roller coaster ride to get to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.” 💰🌈 – @mebfaber

How Long Can You Handle Underperforming? (or, How To Beat 94% Of All Mutual Funds)

“While I am very bullish on Direct Indexing in the future, I have a hard time believing it will disrupt the trajectory of ETFs any time soon.” 🐂🚀📈 – @bpsandpieces

Around the ETF World in 80 Hours

“Since we are drowning in popular culture today … this series will try to turn that reality on its head, mostly using popular culture to illustrate and, I hope, illuminate our behavioral and cognitive biases” @RPSeawright

Top Ten Behavioral Biases, Illustrated (mostly via popular culture)

Passive management is making strong inroads in the UK with Blackrock in second place and gaining ground 🥈🥈 – @FT

https://www.ft.com/content/bc78dd26-4356-11ea-abea-0c7a29cd66fe

Franklin Resources is buying Legg Mason to create a $1.5 trillion asset manager 🆕➕ – @WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/franklin-resources-is-in-talks-to-buy-legg-mason-11582009251

DID YOU KNOW: Web traffic to the top 100 sites in 2019 was up 8% driven by mobile? 📈📱 – @TechCrunch

Web traffic increases in 2019 were driven by mobile; top 100 sites saw average of 223B monthly visits

“The better strategy for investors then is not to try and win, but to not lose. Too many people in the financial community obsess over the “optimal” way to invest…” 🚫0️⃣ – @dollarsanddata

Avoid the Zeros

The coronavirus has come for Apple’s earnings 🍎🦠 – @CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/apple-warns-on-coronavirus-it-wont-meet-revenue-guidance-because-of-constrained-iphone-supply-and-suppressed-demand-in-china.html

ATTACK OF THE CLONES: Scammers Mimic Hedge Fund Websites!

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-hedgefunds/london-hedge-funds-websites-cloned-as-scammers-grow-bolder-and-more-ubiquitous-idUSKBN2062R1

New York Invests $800 Million into Green Bonds, Private Credit

https://www.ai-cio.com/news/new-york-invests-800-million-green-bonds-private-credit/

GM is exiting Australia, New Zealand and Thailand, and sunsetting the Holden brand 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇹🇭 – @axios

https://www.axios.com/gm-australia-new-zealand-thailand-exit-efb36e9f-ebe8-4ee2-8a03-d024575d713c.html

YouTube is the world’s leading video streaming app and it’s not even close 📱📺 – @Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/13/21136335/youtube-streaming-wars-mobile-android-tiktok-netflix-quibi

$200 billion Ontario Teachers Fund sells Disney, Starbucks – what are they buying instead?

https://www.barrons.com/articles/giant-canadian-fund-sold-disney-starbucks-stock-blackberry-51581534218

There’s a difference between a frothy market and a bubble 🤔🤔 – @cullenroche

Three Things I Think I Think – Bubbles, Bernie & the Recliners

“One of the reasons we’re living in the golden age of the individual investor is the number of research and investing tools available for free.” 🆓🔢 – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/02/some-lessons-from-92-years-of-market-return-data/

When it comes to Berkshire Hathaway’s future, there seem to be more questions than answers 🤷🤷‍♂️ – @barronsonline

https://www.barrons.com/articles/berkshire-hathaway-future-without-warren-buffett-51581727862

RIP, HQ Trivia. The once-popular live mobile trivia app has shut down. 😢😢 – @CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/media/hq-trivia-shut-down/

People who call everything a bubble likely haven’t lived through a real one 🎈🎈 – @ritholtz

Are We in a Tech Bubble?

“There is no perfect company, and every fund manager must make trade-offs.” ☮️🤹‍♀️♻️ – @ronlieber

“If you are someone who struggles with their finances, look no further than the big wealth levers. These are the areas that can make or break your finances, not $5 lattes.” ☕️🛠💰 – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/02/the-biggest-wealth-levers/