Growth Investing

Last week a lot of people lost money in the market; most of them are wishing they had lost less. But most investors have no idea how to do that except by investing more conservatively—and that’s counterproductive if your main goal is growth. Today’s column, therefore, is dedicated to addressing ways to improve your investing system—without giving up the potential for growth. Practice Market Timing Academics will tell you it can’t be done—but they’re wrong.   We’ve been doing it for more than 40 years, and the proof that it works is that Hulbert Digest, which tracks the performance of...

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After the sharp decline that we’ve seen recently in the market, it’s inevitable that most investors feel blindsided by the market—the speed of the decline, and in particular in leading stocks, can make your head spin. And the fears fueled by these declines mean many investors who want to invest in potentially big-winning stocks find themselves scared out of most winners.  So, today, I want to talk about an investment style that I’ve been thinking about for a while—I call it the Conservative Aggressive style. To explain it, let’s consider two systems, the first of which gains, say, 18%...

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