In a Fortune article titled “Why Stocks Beat Gold and Bonds,” Warren Buffett provides a glimpse of his upcoming shareholder letter.

While Buffett’s advice is perfect for investors who have a long-term perspective, anyone near or in retirement may want to think twice about acting on the prescription.

The core of Buffett’s advice is as follows:

“Trees grow” is an adage that has stuck with me over the past several years.

In a post financial crisis interview, a successful investment manager was talking about his decision to load-up on Citigroup and a handful of other banks in early 2009 when the decision to do so was difficult to say the least.

Wally Weitz is a hugely successful and yet relatively low profile money manager.

His performance over a very long period of time credibly places him among the world’s top performing investors.

Like his Omaha neighbor Warren Buffett, Weitz is a deep value investor.  His fundamental investing criteria is the price of a security relative to its intrinsic value—the lower the price the better.

In the video below, Weitz speaks to Bloomberg about his biggest investment mistake.

The Wall Street Journal recently published an interview (see the video below) with entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

The interview is interesting for a number of reasons.  Cuban talks about investing his own money and he offers some suggestions for regular, non high net worth investors. 

In a nutshell, Cuban strongly believes that the “buy and hold” approach to investing is a worthless strategy.

According to a 2009 article in Sports Illustrated, 78 percent of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress within two years of their retirement, and 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of their retirement.

It's been a year since the market bottomed and the financial crisis presumably peaked.

There has been enough time for noted financial journalists such as Roger Lowenstein and Michael Lewis to write soon to be released books on the crisis.