The Federal Reserve, as you probably know, has a dual mandate: to maximize employment and to stabilize prices. Every month, the Fed gets graded on its inflation obligation when the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is updated.
I’m an impatient person...
Vanguard, the world's second-biggest asset manager, cut the total expense ratio on all its Hong Kong-listed exchange traded funds, effective on Monday, as competition heats up in the passive asset management space.
(Bloomberg) -- Many exchange-traded funds are poised to avoid some aspects of sweeping new U.S. regulations meant to ensure that asset managers can easily meet investors’ redemption demands...
Impact investing can be seen as a way for investors to align their investment philosophies with their personal beliefs, prioritizing investments that advance social or environmental change with the goal of generating returns.
Similarly, organi...
Charley Ellis has been preaching about the benefits of passive investing for a long time. In 1975, he wrote the now-classic article "The Loser’s Game," which challenged the traditional wisdom about the investment business&mdash...
(Bloomberg View) -- Janus saw the writing on the wall. And it wasn’t pretty.
Like many big asset managers, Janus Capital Group is caught on the wrong side of two powerful trends that are reshaping the financial industry.
The first is the wh...
We finally got a break in gold prices on Tuesday. And now there’s plenty of punditry explaining why. British PM Theresa May was named a culprit by many observers for talking down sterling (read: talking up the Yankee dollar) as she laid out a Bre...
(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest provider of exchange-traded funds, is cutting prices across its core ETFs in anticipation of a new U.S. rule that may prompt more investors to pour into passive funds...