by Lou Barberini | Sep 16, 2025 | Market News
What are alternative investments? Alternative investments come in three flavors: 1) Venture capital firms use their clients’ funds to seed start-up companies with the hopes that a few investments’ dramatic successes significantly outweigh the losing and mediocre...
by Lou Barberini | May 14, 2025 | Market News
Public employees forced to contribute more because SFERS investment managers ignored Warren Buffett’s advice It happens in the corporate world. It happens within government agencies. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. And it’s as old as the oldest profession....
by Lou Barberini | Jan 23, 2025 | Market News
I guarantee the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the Dow) is going to hit 500000. I’m so confident, I’m willing to bet dinner at the takers’ choice of restaurants. If financial advisors are not allowed to guarantee results, why am I ensuring such a high mark for the Dow?...
by Lou Barberini | Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Historically, it was advisable for investors to balance their investments and/or their retirements accounts between fixed income investments and stock/mutual fund investments. Fixed income investments could be described as certificates of deposits, stable value...
by Lou Barberini | Jan 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
In my November 2nd column, I questioned how self-appraised real estate investments purchased by public pensions, like the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS), had appreciated in value, while at the same time comparable investments that are...
