…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…
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…
…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…
…series that Morningstar compiles that attempts to figure out the actual cost of performance chasing. They look at the return of the fund compared to the returns of the investors…
…funds did today because the answer depends on what kind of mutual fund you’re talking about. The following chart shows six major hedge fund categories that reflect different strategies for…
…Beta is a rough proxy for risk and told you that ARKK was about 60 percent more volatile than the market. Now, here’s where the alpha comes in. Some of…
…categories compared to their indexes (as denoted by EUR for Europe and GBP for the UK). Here’s a link to the full report if you want to make sure that…
…don’t like. Under the suitability standard, a broker isn’t required to disclose conflicts of interest regarding a recommendation or explain how the broker is compensated. Here’s an insidious example of…
…that the returns for his fund between 1985 and 1995 was around 50 percent (before fees, which were substantial, but still, that’s high). The book actually details, in a very…
…would mean selling Japanese yen and buying Japanese stocks and bonds, for example. Managed futures are a form of trend following that attempt to own stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities…
