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Modern portfolio theory (MPT) has become the whipping boy in recent years, and rightly so. Too many investors and financial advisors put it on a pedestal and assumed it had powers it could never... read more »
Robert Powell at MarketWatch has written a good article on the challenges of education in personal finance. The impetus for his story is last month’s Life-Cycle Saving & Investing Conference at... read more »
Investors readily agree with the old adage "Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket." In order to implement this wisdom into the management of investment portfolios, investors frequently... read more »
With the plethora of investment tools at one's hands and the concept of indexing flooding newswires, exchange traded funds and their counterparts are extremely attractive and for good reason. An... read more »
From Nic Lenoir of ICAPI will send a macro update in a little bit. For now I would like to comment on the volumes or lack thereof... Today is just a dismal showing so far, and unless some bomb hits... read more »
Quite often we are asked by readers and clients how we recommend investors develop a long-term financial plan, and what kind of investment strategies we recommend. Though these are topics we... read more »
Economic numbers are becoming less good. In some cases they are downright bad. Back in the spring of 2009 many analysts were commenting that the news was getting less bad, therefore "green... read more »
In the 2 years that actively-managed ETFs have been around, there have been funds launched that focus on various asset classes, ranging from equities and fixed-income to currencies and commodities.... read more »
One of the problems with Neoclassical economics is that it assumes that the economic system tends toward stability. In all of my years of doing quantitative analyses of equity and debt markets, as... read more »
I have a phrase that I use to describe the current difficulties within state and local governments; I call it "The New Normal." The phrase is cribbed from PIMCO, but with me this phrase... read more »
