From Mark Ford, founder, Palm Beach Research Group: At PBRG’s Infinity Conference last month, there were a number of questions about how investors should prepare for the future, now with Donald Trump as president-elect and U.S. and world debt at historic highs, and threats of financial collapse and social unrest looming over us. Here’s what […]
From Mark Ford, founder, Palm Beach Research Group: When business writers talk about why so few people become entrepreneurs, they cite “fear of failure” as the No. 1 challenge. agree. Fear of failing is a real factor. But to overcome it, you need to figure out what it means in more specific terms. When I […]
From Bob Irish, retirement expert, Palm Beach Research Group: Before “retiring,” I spent more than 30 years in the financial services industry watching the same movie over and over. The plotline and the cast of characters never changed. The flick goes like this: A good market begins. Investors watch stocks rise in disbelief. Surely this […]
From Teeka Tiwari, editor, The Palm Beach Letter: It’s a puzzle I’ve been trying to unravel since entering Wall Street in 1989… Each year, thousands of investors would rather lose money than embrace an inconvenient truth. Over the years, I’ve heard it all. In the late ’80s, investors would tell me,“I really should sell my […]
From Mark Ford, founder, Palm Beach Research Group: I used to be a strong opponent of television. But K and I recently started watching it together more often. (I blame Netflix and its addictive archive!) Just a little bit here and there but enough to get me thinking about the way people spend their recreational […]
From Greg Wilson, analyst, Palm Beach Research Group: There I was at 8 o’clock in the morning, sitting in a nondescript college classroom on the eastern edge of Nebraska. The jet-lagged and sleep-deprived crowd shifted and grumbled in their seats. I was worried for the first speaker. The group seemed subdued and unfriendly. The speaker […]
From Mark Ford, founder, Palm Beach Research Group: Two engineers, Fahri Diner and Xiang-Dong Cao, were the “brains behind [a] Billion Dollar Deal.” They were sitting around after work having a few beers (I’m making up the details) and complaining about their employer, Siemens Information and Communication Networks in Boca Raton, Florida. Cao was saying […]