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“Steal” These Two Stock Ideas From The Best Investors In The World
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By the time this is in your inbox, the quarterly 13F deadlines will have gone.
The headlines will probably still be with us:
· “What did Warren buy?”
· “What did Ackman do?”
· “Is Cathie Wood buying or selling?”
· “Who sold NVIDIA?”
· “Are the Tiger Cubs back?”
· “What is Icahn doing?”
· “What are the stocks the big institutions love most?”
· “Which ones are they selling?”
For some bizarre reason, the filings of the two largest index fund purveyors, Vanguard and BlackRock (BLK), receive enormous media attention.
Lots of ink, real and digital, will be spilled with headlines and topics very similar to these.
Too many people will click on them and look for serious investment advice.
Most of it is not worth the time to read. The odds of you making money from the information are small. There are too many eyeballs reading the same stuff for you to gain any edge.
Most of the more famous investors that everyone clamors to read about have underperformed for years.
They are old and very rich. They do not have the same goals and expectations as those of us in the accumulation phase of life. They have nothing at all in common with those looking for income-producing investments.
That doesn’t mean you should ignore 13F filings. To the contrary, 13F filings can be one of your best resources as an investor.
The trick is knowing which ones to follow.
In this expensive market, if you can dig up value plays, you could have an entire portfolio of winners. I have a dividend portfolio that’s winning 100%... and I just released a new value portfolio that is my best yet. Because you have a chance to get high dividends and huge profits at the same time.