Clearly, in order to make sense of risk and opportunities offered in financial markets, clients will want to hire managers that are skilled, but opportunity is the other crucial component to investment success.
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Ric Edelman’s “exponential technology” strategy for investment management is now a BlackRock ETF. The new iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (nysearca:XT) began with the Edelman F...
Despite mostly downside surprises from U.S. economic data, hopes of a slower pace in interest rate normalization from the Federal Reserve pushed U.S. stocks and bonds upward. A seesaw week for U.S. stocks ended on the upside last week, though the...
It was just a sniff, mind you, but it was of a foul odor. A whiff of inflation seen in the monthly Consumer Price Index data held back stocks this morning that I believe would have otherwise gained from the get-go. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: [...
An obstinately dovish U.S. Federal Reserve and a European Central Bank intent on carrying out its own, massive Quantitative Easing (QE) bond buying programme have pushed Treasury rates to near historic lows and European rates to obscene levels. As...
The hedge fund industry is not perfect, but neither are the capital markets, which is why we have numerous regulators around the world overseeing the industry.
Last week could be best wrapped up by a heat map of the ETF universe, unless it was inverse or tied to volatility, it was nothing but shades of green last week as the FOMC officially ran out of patience but the doves delivered an unexpected...