Acropolis was an early adopter of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). As the name implies, an ETF is a fund that trades on an exchange. It’s like a mutual fund in that…
…Partners, Fidelity Contrafund, Royce Special Equity Investments, Fairhomle fund and found basically the same results to varying degrees. I will say that this is a casual look on my part….
…the hedge fund industry since the lack of regulation allows hedge fund managers to short stocks (or bonds, commodities and currencies) and use other exotic strategies that are unrelated to…
…or the size of a company. Big companies like General Electric, Pfizer and Verizon fit in one of the top three boxes. The second dimension, from left to right, is…
…me of some old market jokes. 1) How do you make a small fortune in commodities trading? Start with a large fortune. You could certainly insert the VIX futures ETF…
Value stocks are undoubtedly having a tough time these days. As I first wrote last November (click here for the article), value stocks are undergoing their worst period of underperformance…
…each strategy (found here and here) and at the end of the momentum article, I pointed out that value and momentum work especially well together. While both strategies have enjoyed…
…valuations are coming down. In the old days, venture capital firms would fund start-ups and when they got big enough, the companies would go public through an Initial Public Offering…
…a variety of subsidiaries, is China’s largest ecommerce company, offering solutions to millions of businesses and hundreds of millions of consumers. Some analysts estimate that as much as 80 percent…
…manifestation for the additional risk that value stocks represent. On average, though, the distressed companies right themselves thanks to action by company management. Some companies go under, like Borders Bookstores,…
