Dr. Marc Faber, who predicted the 1987 crash and the recent financial crisis, is predictably gloomy. Buy farmland, gold and head into the country to avoid a "dirty" war, he told a conference. For more, please go to VonAldo.com, the blog of...
The best ETFs are cheap to buy, easy to trade and benchmarked to quality indices.
While some growth managers seek companies that are reporting the most rapid earnings gains, Janus Fund (JDGAX) avoids the highflyers. Instead, the fund favors predictable blue chips. The aim is to find dominate businesses that can grow steadily...
The FT reports today that “overseas investors bought up Japanese equities at the fastest pace in three years in January as global asset managers rebalanced portfolios towards the country’s equity market from underweight positions.” For more...
At last week’s TD Ameritrade Institutional’s national conference last week, there was much discussion about China. Is China’s growing economic might good for the U.S.? For the world? Is China, giving its despotic government...
After a 2006 opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in McCord v. Commissioner,1 many practitioners expanded their use of defined value clauses for certain transfer tax planning strategies. But many lawyers remained reluctant...
Fundamental index ETFs have been around for nearly five years now. Have they lived up to their claims that they avoid overpriced stocks?
with Paul Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group on China ADR performance.
