Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of online real estate and home-related mobile platform Zillow rallied Monday afternoon after Valiant Capital said the stock is one of its portfolio picks. The huge advantage Zillow has here is so much traffic already coming to its site, Valiant President and Founding Partner Chris Hansen said
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Adam Jeffery | CNBC Bihua Chen, founder and portfolio manager at Cormorant Asset Management, said on Monday she likes kidney disease drug maker Reata Pharmaceuticals. The kidney drug that Reata is developing called Bardoxolone has “striking efficacy,” the hedge fund manager said from the Sohn Conference in New York. Shares of Reata Pharmaceutical jumped more
Michael Wirth, CEO of Chevron. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Chevron‘s leaders insist the company’s fortunes don’t rely on dealmaking, but the oil major nevertheless has much to lose if it does not prevail in an ongoing battle with Occidental Petroleum to take control of Anadarko Petroleum. Since Occidental first revealed its challenge to Chevron’s $33
Photo by Hero Images via Getty Images When it comes to shoring up your retirement savings, “work longer” isn’t always the right answer. There’s no denying that staying at work has its perks. For instance, employees who are 50 and older can defer the maximum $19,000 into a 401(k), plus the catch-up contribution of $6,000
Your 20s can be dizzying. You may feel you’re stepping off the ledge without knowing if you can fly. To make things more complicated, it’s time to get serious about money. That means getting a grip on spending and saving, and learning to invest. Investing is not just for rich people. It’s not just for
Stan Litow The days of traditional retirement may be over. Potential retirees at the lower and middle end of the economic spectrum simply can’t afford to stop working, given the high costs of health care and housing, especially when you consider that only 1 in 3 Americans have access to retirement benefits through their employer.
Ariel Skelley | Blend Images | Getty Images Market volatility can turn into a tax-savings play for savvy advisors and their clients — as long as they do it right. Tax-loss harvesting is a strategy in which investors deliberately incur losses in a taxable account by selling off investments that have fallen in value. By
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, December 19, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters It appeared to be a painful start to the week for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling more than 470 points at the open on Monday. Yet Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner,
Thomas Barwick | Iconica | Getty Images Parents are spending more than on their children’s sports with the hopes that they will make it to the big leagues. And dads are often the ones likely to shell out the most cash on their children’s activities, according to a new survey from TD Ameritrade. Yet spending
Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, with students from the Richard Wright Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Scott cosponsored legislation expanding tax-advantaged Opportunity Zones with Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images How can a formerly failing freshman in a South Carolina high school ultimately build a path
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses questions about whether COLAs are lost when delaying filing, filing strategies with a young child, how survivor benefits are calculated, when spousal benefits can be filed for and whether
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin I’m always fascinated — and frustrated — with the tug of war over Social Security: Will it survive? Should we expand or privatize it? How do we bolster it for those who really need it? Full disclosure: As someone who is looking forward to receiving it
In this wired world, technology has had an enormous, wide-ranging impact on the multifamily real estate market. That impact is most notably seen in the way property owners innovate and differentiate their holdings but really begins much earlier than that with the way in which owners examine the market and appeal to potential renters. It
With a price-to-earnings ratio over 40, MasterCard is still my top value manager’s favorite stock © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP When the Supreme Court handed American Express a victory last July, John Archer’s portfolio looked vulnerable because MasterCard was his biggest position. I have found that when the going gets rocky is when great managers
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Jefferson Park Apartments in Cambridge, Massachusetts was a winner in the multifamily housing category. Bruce T. Martin The American Institute of Architects recently bestowed a series of awards to the winners of 12 exceptional residential designs. AIA’s Housing Awards program, now in its 19th year, was established
An interview with billionaire and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett. In this interview, Warren discusses how he picks stocks and thinks about investments, including how the wider economy plays into his strategy. Warren also talks about how his current investments are performing, the state of the global economy and political issues. ?Books about Warren
Should you buy or sell Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet. Getty Each time the S&P 500 sets a new high, readers ask what they should do with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet. I call them the Triple-A stocks because so many investors tell me they would never sell them until, that is, they dropped 25% to 35% in
With the 2020 presidential election underway, a few of the candidates have started addressing the mounting cost of higher education by presenting distinctive policy proposals on student loan debt. For example, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren recently unveiled a proposal that would cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt balances for households with annual incomes
Skyscraper and high-rise buildings near The Bund at night. Getty In a previous article, I theorised that one of the key PropTech themes for this year is that of “smart” technologies. Industry players seek solutions that help deliver the now widely accepted principle of real estate-as-a-service. There are many ways this goal can be achieved, from
. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP Dunkin’is a tiny company compared to McDonald’s, both in store count and revenues. But it shares with the franchise giant an important competitive advantage: location. Exploiting this advantage could help it replicate McDonald’s success in in adopting and adapting to emerging consumer trends. An early
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