Networks - Direct Investing

To ensure you are on the right track when buying and maximizing valuations when selling, it is important to minimize mistakes during the due diligence and direct investment process.

Nearly all investment professionals rely upon portfolio optimization techniques grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory to structure investment portfolios for individual investors.

The stock market abounds with colorful sayings that reflect the collective wisdom of decades of investment experience. For professional investors, these time-worn adages are reminders of sometimes-painful past market episodes and the unending challenge of getting the future right.

With President Trump often communicating policy via Twitter, investors are once again finding messaging can be costly—one mere tweet from Trump blasting the pricing of an F-35 fighter jet caused Lockheed Martin to shed $2 billion of market value within minutes.

The optimism and market strength seen in 2016 continued into the first quarter of this year with equity markets showing notable advances.

Traditional economic theory teaches that humans will make rational decisions when presented with all the facts and appropriate alternatives.

After falling from over $100 a barrel to its low point of $26 in February 2016, prices for crude oil have now risen to about $50 a barrel. While that’s nearly a 100 percent increase, oil is still comparatively cheap.

Assuming funds of funds offer nothing in return—or that you get less than you pay for—is a mistake for a surprisingly broad group of investors.

Legal developments in digital currencies, including bitcoin, emerge almost on a daily basis across the global landscape.