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Index investing pioneer David Booth has a simple message for people navigating volatile financial markets: Stay calm and keep investing.

Peter Thiel gained early fame for being a co-founder of PayPal alongside Elon Musk. After selling that company to eBay, Thiel used his newfound fortune to become a venture capitalist. One of his earliest multibaggers came from investing in Facebook (now Meta Platforms) in 2004. Thiel later co-founded Palantir Technologies, the data analytics firm that…

Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, was a busy man during the second quarter. He and his team made some notable moves. For instance, the firm surprisingly closed its position in Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Why is this a surprise?

Billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller, who runs the Duquesne Family Office, made a number of interesting portfolio moves during the second quarter. Among them, the firm sold some of its Sandisk(NASDAQ: SNDK) stock and piled into three other AI-related companies: Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).

Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally.

As the founder of Appaloosa Management, David Tepper built his reputation through a keen eye for distressed assets, including debt instruments trading at steep discounts, and deep-value stocks that most other investors overlooked amid temporary turmoil.

The George Soros protégé ran his own fund, Duquesne Capital, for three decades, from 1981 to 2010, with no down years, and reportedly generating average annual returns of 30%, which is unheard of.

Over the last two decades, the company has grown into Russia’s largest e-commerce platform, with nearly 95,000 pickup points across the country and more than half of the nation’s population making purchases at least once a month.

Over the past week, a flurry of 13F filings have revealed the portfolio moves institutional investors made during the second quarter. The shifts from one such billionaire investor, Stanley Druckenmiller, captured my attention.