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Recent Features

Forbes

Warren Buffett Has It Right – Time In The Market Trumps Market Timing

Warren Buffett famously once said, “The stock market is a mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.”

Don’t Always Believe What You Read: Darden (DRI) Up, Not Down

I find it comical how unreliable (perhaps even counterfactual), headlines often can be as a predicter of stock performance, particularly in the near-term. ..

Eating My Own Cooking: Navigating Buy, Hold And Sell Decisions – ORCL

At The Prudent Speculator, we believe in “eating our own cooking”—aligning our portfolio strategy with the very advice we give to readers.

Money Where My Mouth Is: 3 Undervalued Stocks For Buckingham Portfolio

As the editor of The Prudent Speculator newsletter, I firmly believe in “eating my own cooking” when it comes to investing.

Mentions from members of the press

Phil Van Doorn
Philip Van Doorn,
In Market Watch
2020

“The Prudent Speculator is published by Kovitz Investment Group of Chicago and remains at the top of the list for 30-year returns among newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest. The TPS portfolio’s average annualized 30-year return is 14.5% through June 30, compared with 9.9% for the S&P 500, with dividends reinvested monthly, according to Hulbert.”

Jane Wollman Rusoff
Jane Wollman Russoff,
in Think Advisor
2020

“A long-time value investor whose largest holdings are in technology, John Buckingham is clearly not your typical value portfolio manager. That shows up… in a striking record of picking winning equities for more than 30 years. Principal and portfolio manager of Chicago-based Kovitz, he has been managing the Al Frank Fund (VALUX) from its inception in 1998. Since then, through Jan. 7, 2022, it has realized an annualized return of 10.79%, compared with 7.9% for the Russell 3000 Value Index and 8.75% for the S&P 500.”

Mark Hulbert
Mark Hulbert, Finance Analyst, Journalist & Author, in Barrons
2017

“It pays to have nerves of steel. That’s the most important lesson to emerge from the Prudent Speculator’s position as one of this country’s most successful investment newsletters of the past four decades.

The Prudent Speculator’s model portfolios on average produced a 16,937% gain, versus 4,952% for buying and holding the broad stock market. That’s equivalent to the difference between 15.1% and 11.3%, annualized.”