While the bickering in Congress over a fiscal stimulus bill of enormous proportions continues, the Fed has thrown caution to the wind and will even be buying ETFs. Given that the Federal Reserve has already gone to the felt with interest rate cuts, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are finished. They do have some […]

University endowments have been earning returns that have well underperformed stocks, due mostly with their fascination with private equity. They happily fail though. University endowments manage a total of $840 billion in funds these days, and coming in with returns that have averaged 6.3% less than the S&P 500 over the last 10 years should […]

While a lot of traders prefer to trade individual stocks, trading the major stock indexes offers some significant benefits, especially for amateurs who need to focus on simplicity. The great majority of amateur traders struggle mightily, and the biggest challenge for them is to come up with a trading strategy that actually works. While there […]

China’s massive effort to try to contain the coronavirus definitely is having an effect on their economy, but now that the incident is winding down, they are starting to heal already. Through all the panicking that is going on in the world about the potential spread of the coronavirus, we’re somehow not noticing that things […]

There are quite a few people out there who are intimidated and disenchanted with all the computer trading that goes on these days, but these fears are not justified at all. There is a myth out there that still prevails that has us human traders and investors pitted against an army of computers, all of […]

We’re not sure why Federal Reserve member Neel Kashkari feels that he’s qualified to speak about investments. What he lacks in knowledge, he more than makes up for with contempt. If you wish to speak about investments, it’s a good idea to at least be familiar with the basics. While the Federal Reserve does important […]

Brown Capital Management’s Small Company Fund beats 99% of its peers. They also have a newer fund focused on foreign stocks that is getting accolades. Do they deserve them? When you have a fund that has outperformed 99% of your peers over the last 15 years, that might be something to crow about. The use […]

Fundamental stock analysts don’t usually like using the “s” word, and by the time they tell you to sell, you should have sold a long time ago. This sell call is more proactive. Pivotal Research analyst Michael Levine just sounded the alarm on Facebook, at a time where the stock doesn’t really look all that […]

Value funds seem to take a defensive approach to investing by steering away from good performing stocks and favoring poorer ones. This isn’t that good of a deal though. It’s a given that value fund investing will provide lesser returns than average, not that the average is something that we should be setting our sights […]

Seeing a company like Schwab running an ad encouraging investors to diversify by balancing stocks and stock sectors may not appear noteworthy, but it certainly is. Small children will often ask why when you tell them something, and as you try to explain it to them, they will often just keep asking why to get […]