What percentage of the US population is obese? Go on, hazard a guess. What do you think the figure is without looking it up?
According to Healthline, a little over 42% of the US population is clinically obese. And that figure is expected to balloon to 50% by 2030.
Picking stocks is hard enough but how do you decide what amount to allocate to each stock? Portfolio construction is an art unto itself. Done well, a portfolio can withstand economic storms. Done poorly, the results can be catastrophic.
For two contrasting perspectives, look no further than Berkshire Hathaway versus ARK Invest during 2022.
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What stocks would artificial intelligence select to produce outsized returns over the next 20 years?
That’s the question I wanted to ask ChatGPT, the breakthrough AI product from OpenAI, and the results were stunning.
In the pantheon of investors, Stanley Druckenmiller is revered as one of the best. When he managed money he had a track record over 30 years of 30% plus returns annually net of fees. Truly a spectacular record.
In 2019, Etsy share price hovered around the $50-60 range. Then the pandemic came in full force and Etsy got swept up with “lockdown era” stocks like Zoom. In a virtual heartbeat, Etsy was trading up at $294 per share by November, 2021.
It’s bad out there the news media will tell you. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. First Republic Bank collapsed. First Horizon shares crashed. Bank PacWest cratered. US Bancorp tumbled.
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When ChatGPT launched, it became the fastest growing product,
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Perhaps the most anticipated 13F filing of all is from Berkshire Hathaway. Investors muse: What did Buffett just buy? What did Berkshire Hathaway sell?
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When Warren Buffett bought shares of Taiwan Semiconductor, some speculated it was a play on supply chain integration. TSM is the leading semiconductor manufacturer in the world, and famously supplies chips to Apple, his largest bet.