The Irish Times

Stocktake: Bill Miller – from hero to zero and back again

Billionaire fund manager invested in Amazon and bitcoin

Tue May 04 2021 - 00:00

Are you a good investor – or a lucky one?

The luckiest investors end up with five times as much money as the unluckiest ones

Tue Aug 14 2018 - 05:00

A bad week for Facebook shareholders

Stocktake: Facebook stock down $60bn over Cambridge Analytica’s revelations

Tue Mar 27 2018 - 08:00

Will animal spirits drive a stock market melt-up?

Stocktake: Investors are still jumping in as FOMO trumps worry of losing money

Tue Feb 06 2018 - 07:00

Will the bitcoin bubble burst?

Warren Buffett, Howard Marks and Nobel economist Robert Shiller have warned the craze will end badly

Tue Dec 12 2017 - 06:00

Trading truisms and time-tested investment adages

Many memorable one-liners have emerged from Wall Street, offering intriguing insights into the approaches of both long-term investors and short-term traders

Tue Apr 11 2017 - 07:18

Stocktake: CRH investors gain at expense of index funds

Fund managers still cautious, changes at Apple, and was Bill Miller just lucky?

Tue Aug 23 2016 - 06:00

Picking and sticking with superstar investors

It’s very difficult to beat the stock market as even top fund managers have shown

Tue Aug 16 2016 - 05:02

‘Extreme winners’ take it all while 40% of stocks suffer ‘catastrophic’ declines

Report spanning 34 years charts (frequent) agony and (rare) ecstasy of stock-picking

Tue Oct 21 2014 - 01:50

Win or lose, are you lucky or shrewd?

Recent polls shows that people put good returns down to skill while bad ones are blamed on bad luck. But now there are calls for a more scientific approach

Tue Jun 10 2014 - 01:10