He may be the best investor you’ve never heard of. Beginning in 1975, he delivered to his investors a compound annual return of 15.2% for the next 33 years! If you’d put $10,000 with him and left it there, you’d have had $1 million by 2007. Peter Cundill is his name. ...read more

The housing market is one of the best-looking asset classes for 2011 and 2012. I’ll admit, that prediction may seem shocking right now, especially if you’ve been following my thoughts about the massive wave of mortgage resets threatening home ownership this year. But bear with me — now may be ...read more

The story of Mongolia’s resurgence is mouthwatering for investors for a very simple reason. Mongolia is rich in natural resources… and it sits next to the world’s most voracious consumer of those resources, China. Beneath Mongolia’s rugged mountains and slumbering sands lie huge untapped resources of copper, coal, gold, uranium, iron ...read more

In research I send my Lifetime Income Report readers, the theme you I cover more than any other is market mispricings. Some of the best times to buy a stock are when it is the least popular. It’s because of this that we’ve been able to lock in gains of 32%, ...read more

Some of the most successful companies of the last half-century all had one thing in common. And I am certain that the best investments of the next half-century will also share this trait. It’s pretty simple and intuitive, yet I wonder why more investors don’t focus on it. I’ll use a ...read more

There have been a number of acquisitions lately that tell us some important things. One of them is that corporate insiders are willing to pay a lot to get growth these days. The prices of some of these deals are rich, as I’ll show you. It also says something important about our ...read more

Joesley Batista started working at his father’s butcher shop, in the tropical highlands of Brazil, before he was a teenager. His two brothers worked there, too. It was a small family-run affair, and the family could slaughter, at best, just five cattle a day. His father, who started the business ...read more

It’s not surprising that most investors cringe at the thought of betting against the market – after all, the pundits on financial news channels work hard to tell investors that bad times are fleeting and good times are always just around the corner. Until recently, most investors were inclined to ...read more

If you’ve been reading my market commentary for more than a few months, you know that the global economy faces a hangover from a giant credit binge. This hangover will return after the effects of the stimulus plan wear off, and it will correct many of the capital spending mistakes ...read more

Someone once said that the city of São Paulo was as if LA threw up on New York. That’s an imaginative way to describe this sprawling metropolis. It’s a bustling, congested city of 11 million people, with another 9 million in the suburbs. Greater São Paulo ranks as the third ...read more