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During his recent conversation at the LSE Event, Ray Dalio explained why markets can always be beaten. Here’s an excerpt from the conversation: Host: Many economists, as you probably know, argue that over the long-term you can’t beat the markets because all the information is rationally expressed in the price… … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

In his recent interview with Tony Robbins, Ray Dalio explained how investors can cut their risk in half. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: If you have uncorrelated assets, and you easily can because when the economic policies, when economic conditions shift it shifts returns from one type of asset … Read More

In his book Principles, Ray Dalio discusses prioritizing investing decisions by weighing the value of seeking additional information against the cost of postponing a decision. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Think about the appropriate time to make a decision in light of the marginal gains made by acquiring additional … Read More

In his latest article titled – Reflections on the 4th of July, Ray Dalio discusses a number of his reflections including the world order and how it’s changing. Here’s an excerpt from the article: As far as the changing world order due to the great powers conflict, there are three … Read More

In his recent interview with The Hustle Daily Show, Ray Dalio discussed how to invest during periods of volatility. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Host: How do you generally think about moments of volatility, like the one we’re in now, from an investing vantage point? Dalio: I would worry … Read More

In his recent interview with Charlie Rose, Ray Dalio explained why we are now in a period of stagflation. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Rose: Are we close to having stagflation? Dalio: Yeah. We are in stagflation. Rose: We are? Stagflation is simply where you have inflation, and yet … Read More

In his recent interview with the Armchair Expert, Ray Dalio discusses one way that helps him to predict current financial outcomes. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Dalio: Right! 1971, the United States had paper bills that were like checks in a checkbook, they didn’t have any value, but what … Read More

In his recent interview with CNBC, Ray Dalio explained why everything can’t continue to go up. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Dalio: We’re in a paradigm shift I think. A paradigm is something happens for ten years, an environment for 10 years, and at the end of that ten … Read More

In his recent interview with Jordan Harbinger, Ray Dalio explains why investors should have two portfolios, one for the good times, and one for the bad times. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Dalio: Some of the things we talked about and a lot of them, we didn’t that are … Read More

In his recent interview with Lewis Howes, Ray Dalio explains why competing in markets is more difficult than competing in the Olympics. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Dalio: The most common mistake of investing is that the investment that did good is a good investment. People… rather more expensive. … Read More

In his latest interview with Fortune India, Ray Dalio discusses his macro-investing template. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Dalio: I want a highly diversified portfolio of assets that are not cash and bonds. I want geographic diversification as much as I want asset class diversification. Regarding my geographic diversification … Read More

In his latest interview with William Green on The Investors Podcast, Ray Dalio discussed some common investing mistakes. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Dalio: So I created this all-weather portfolio which is a balance, balance is the key. Diversification of achieving that is the best path with staying out … Read More

In his recent article titled – Are We In A Stock Market Bubble, Ray Dalio discusses the six measures of his systemized “bubble indicator” which gives him perspective on the market at any time. Here’s an excerpt from the article: I’ve seen a lot of bubbles in my time and … Read More

Here’s a great presentation from Ray Dalio’s TED Talk a couple of years ago in which he shows a short clip of himself speaking to Congress, and Wall Street Week about his call on the debt crisis in the early eighties. Following the clip Dalio says, “I look at that … Read More

Here’s a great short video by Ray Dalio in which he explains the magic behind his ‘holy grail of investing’. The holy grail strategy consists of 15-20 uncorrelated investments that will provide the best return-to-risk-ratio. Here’s an excerpt from the video: What that taught me is the magic is in… … Read More

Interviewer: David Tepper had texted into the show on Friday and suggested right now you have to be in the market, full-on. So the question is whether everybody jumps on the train. Everybody gets in full-on, and then the problem arises. When do you jump off the train? Dalio: The … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

Last week Ray Dalio tweeted that he was mentoring Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, and included a twenty-five minute video of the session. While the entire video is great, there’s one section that is particularly relevant to helping us become better investors. Here’s an excerpt from the video: Diddy: I wanted to … Read More