Once the darling of the market, producing consistent gains twice that of stocks for 30 years, managed futures funds have fallen upon hard times. They still might have their place. Managed futures funds seem like such a great idea on paper. The potential return with futures trading dwarfs what anyone could make with stocks, and […]
The coronavirus scare and gold are made for each other. The soft commodities have taken a hit, but several commodities advisors see this as a good opportunity. It didn’t really take much know-how for us to recommend going long gold when the coronavirus that still grips the financial world broke out not so long ago. […]
It’s not easy to find an actively managed fund that does what it is supposed to, which is to provide above average and not below average returns. MFS is doing its best. It is actually pretty amazing how so many poor performing mutual funds there are out there, and how people continue to invest in […]
The way that initial public offerings have been traditionally placed in the market harkens back to bygone days where paper was king. We’re finally looking to modernize this process. One of the real obstacles for companies going public is the long and expensive process of getting a stock from the private side to offering their […]
It’s always interesting to hear from the bear camp during a bull run. Morgan Stanley strategist Andrew Sheets thinks the stock “cycle” is nearing an end, and tells us why. There’s no shortage of pretzel logic in the investment world, and sadly, this is actually the standard fare in these professions. It takes quite a […]
When they look at how much money retail investors are pouring into both stock and bond funds right now, Bank of America is worried that we might be creating a bubble with both. We use the word bubble to describe situations where prices of things rise so much that they end up collapsing under their […]
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 […]
Jeremy Grantham is as passionate about climate change as they come in the industry, enough to allow him to think that climate change will trample our portfolios somehow. There are countless folks who want to tell us all about how bad climate change will be at a time where both they and many of us […]
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 […]
We might want to think that seeing less new ETFs introduced last year, as well as a higher percentage of them closing, might not look so good for ETFs. Think again. The 2010s were definitely the decade of the ETF, as they made up a huge amount of ground over mutual funds and are now […]