Over the last ten years, the oldest technology ETF I could find, the Select Spider Tech fund (ticker symbol XLK), has made more than 20 percent per annum through September 30th. A $10,000 investment in that fund would have been worth $64,172 at the end of last month. Even though I know better than to drive forward while looking out through the rearview mirror, I can’t help it: I want… Read More
Like many industries, the wealth management business has many rules and regulations. Many of the rules make good sense and were created after real-world problems occurred. I have one rule on my mind this week, and it concerns one of the ways that we communicate with you: texting. Acropolis is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and one of its rules concerns maintaining our books and records. At… Read More
An Arizona State professor, Hendrik Bessembinder, wrote a fascinating paper detailing something that we intuitively sense: a small handful of stocks have created almost all of the wealth over time, and most stocks don’t provide much in the way of returns. It’s one of the reasons we want hot tips (even when we know they aren’t likely to be hot). The paper’s provocative title is “Do stocks outperform Treasury bills?”… Read More
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People started asking me about a year ago what the election would do to stock prices. I didn’t know then, and I still don’t. Over the years, I’ve read many articles describing how markets fare under Democratic and Republican administrations. I’ve also done the research myself and written several of those articles. Last year, I even wrote about what happened in the year leading up to the presidential election because… Read More
