Economic, monetary and foreign policy hurdles led to outflows from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. funds over the past week. Global emerging markets posted 27th week of consecutive inflows.
In the week just passed the bond market had a modest correction that, unlike it's bearish predecessor, strikes me as being as much about data and the Fed as oversold technicals and sentiment.
The wave of buy-back announcements from U.S. banks led to the biggest influx of fresh money to financials among all sector funds for the week ending July 12.
John Ameriks, head of Vanguard’s Quantitative Equity Group, on the future of rules-based investing, where advisors add value, and why being quantitative just for the sake of it is not enough.