Alex Berenson Quotes

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.

I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.