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Nine well-known Wall Street investors and analysts agreed that stock valuations deserve greater attention in 1999. Predictions about US economic growth, Japan and Brazil, and the stock market were mixed, but no one predicted a global economic meltdown. Participants included Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management; Scott Black, president of Delphi Management; Meryl Buchanan of Buchanan Parker Asset Management; Mario Gabelli of Gabelli Funds; Archie Macallaster of MacAllaster Pitfield MacKay; John Neff, retired managing partner of Wellington Management Co; Art Samberg of Pequot Asset Management; Oscar S. Schafer of Cumberland Associates LLC; and Felix Zulauf of Zulauf Asset Management.

The article discusses the economic outlook for the United States in light of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The author notes that despite widespread economic caution and gloom, in terms of stock prices, U.S. history demonstrates that economic recovery is possible. The author states his belief that the bear market economy is abating, thereby ushering in a more positive economic outlook.

An investment analyst describes the investments he believes are overvalued and undervalued, and those that will not be profitable in several years. Commercial real estate, Japanese investments, pro teams and employees are some of the overvalued investments, while cash and bonds are recommended.

Byline: Barton Biggs Private equity may finally get it right. Private-equity (PE) firms are partnerships that create a series of portfolios to invest in mature, usually troubled companies whose valuations [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner of Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. It's not too much of a stretch to suggest that Iraq could be the next [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs It's time to rethink the old idea of ossified Europe, as the continent surges strong and fast out of the global recession. As an investor and observer, [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs Hedge funds are hitting middle age. When the financial world fell apart in 2008, hedge funds started to run for cover. Huge losses were rumored, the Madoff [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs Why the China bears are wrong. For the chattering classes, spotting financial bubbles has become their favorite global sport, and currently China is the hot game. Fears [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner of Traxis Partners Hedge Fund in New York. Don't run with the herd--ever. There are two mighty pillars of conventional wisdom that dominate [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner of Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. Winds of change are sweeping Syria. The Syrian Arab Republic is a longtime pal of [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs manages the hedge fund Traxis. The Syrian Arab Republic is cozy with Iran and was once castigated by George W. Bush as a harborer of terrorists. [...]

This market rally still has time to run. The recent drop in the Shanghai market has gotten everyone scared. Sharp downward movements tend to focus the mind, just as a [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner of Traxis Partners Hedge Fund in New York. Japanese stocks deserve better. It's intriguing that as Asia leads the recovery of the world [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs The next age of equities is coming. At a recent dinner this writer attended with the glitterati of some of the world's major investment institutions, about half [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs Is Managing Partner Of Traxis Partners Hedge Fund In New York. Ankara needs help now, but rejects it. Turkey, in the hot grip of the summer [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner at Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. To understand the rally, recognize that the GDP statistics you are reading are already out [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner at Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. The feeling that we have averted depression is a big reason equities in many places [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner of Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. The recovery will be sluggish. But the doomsday scenario of depression, deflation and Dow 5000 [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs A legendary Wall Street bull makes the case for how aggressive government rescue efforts and super-cheap stocks could revive markets, fast. I recently laid out in NEWSWEEK [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner at Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. Throwing money at the problem and propping up greedy banks is like trying to put [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is a managing partner of Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. The hedge-fund industry in the future will be much smaller and less leveraged, and [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is a managing partner of Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. It's incredible that Madoff could have sucked so many rich and very sophisticated people [...]

PE returns have been spectacular, but getting them has required immense leverage in the form of high-yield debt. Probably the most spectacular asset class of the late and lamented Great [...]

Voices of calm: Barton Biggs, Heizo Takenaka, and more. Fast Action Will Prevent Disaster Heizo Takenaka, Keio University professor and former Japanese minister of economic and fiscal policy, shares his [...]

Bernanke told the Japanese to boost liquidity, even if it meant dropping money from helicopters. The bear market in stocks around the world continues and is more than a year [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs MARKETS OF ALL VARIETIES EVERYWHERE--STOCKS, BONDS, GOLD, commodities--have recently been refreshed by steep rallies only to be terrorized moments later by sickening declines. The wild gyrations in [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs Markets around the world are poised for a rally that could be as violent as the decline. The Dow could rise a thousand points. As this is [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs (Biggs, the famed Wall Street strategist, is now a hedge-fund manager at Traxis Partners.) It's a very odd thing. The hundred biggest capitalization stocks on the New [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs It was a good year for world equity markets. most major indexes were up in the mid-double digits, and many emerging markets did even better. Some investors [...]

Byline: Barton Biggs is a managing partner of the Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. Hedge funds, like Moby Dick, are mysterious and potentially threatening, but are they the [...]

Presents a discussion between two financial advisors concerning the state of the U.S. stock market as of August 1998. View of Barton M. Biggs, chairman of the company Morgan Stanley Asset Management, on the future of the stock market; Advise of Robert J. Farrell, senior investment adviser at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc., on investments; Expectation of a rise in the small growth companies.

Presents an interview with Barton Biggs, director of global strategy for Morgan Stanley and head of its $57 billion asset management operation. Referred to as the world's reigning contrarian; Stock picks by Biggs in 8 countries, including Brazil, Hong Kong, and India.