The Sundance Fire
Walker Fire had its first and hopefully last wildfire of the season yesterday; the Sundance Fire (someone at the Forest Service gave it that name).We...
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Stanford Wonk Argues In Favor Of Levered Equity Funds
My latest for Alpha Baskets looks at a kind of unique idea for portfolio construction that includes liberal use of levered ETFs. The idea is...
Weekly Market Update
One of my regular blog posts for AlphaBaskets is a Weekly Market Update which looks at macro events moving markets, ETF industry news... then a...
Impact Investing
My latest post for AdvisorShares' AlphaBaskets is titled When Clients Ask About Impact Investing Will You Have An Answer? The post is in support of...
Turning Asset Allocation Upside Down
After the second 50% drawdown of the US equity market in one decade, the investment industry began to reassess the idea of what asset allocation...
Do you want to live to invest or invest to live?
A reader left the following comment on the Seeking Alpha version of a recent post of mine that included the following snippet; Do you want...
The Market is Scandalous and We Have to Deal With It
This morning I have an article up at TheStreet about the LIBOR scandal as part of a package about the scandals of 2013 that I...
Why Doesn’t The Dividend Growth ETF Grow Its Dividends?
An article at Seeking Alpha making the case for the SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY) had the following question left in the comments which as...
Yahoo Finance: Could You Be Oversaving for Retirement?
The short answer is of course yes. If the byproduct of a middle class income, savings rate and lifestyle is $2 million unspent when you...
A Little Light Reading With Great College Football
Today is turning out to be a great day of college football. The Bedlam Game was great and Baylor/TX and Auburn/MO are both competitive as...