A recent examination of hedge funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found a variety of deficiencies in almost half of the firms examined, according to the Wall Street…
…one major Wall Street firm said recently that he watches four indexes that serve as canaries in a coal mine: commodity prices, emerging market stocks, high yield bonds and small-cap…
…shrink in the coming years if Fed stops reinvesting the interest payments and maturities. Notice that even after it shrinks, their balance sheet still stands around $2.5 trillion – much…
…real estate website Zillow, you probably know that you can get a ‘Zestimate’ of your home’s value. Their computer looks at recent sales in your neighborhood and does some calculations…
…technology industry. Unlike most banks with a diversified deposit base that includes individuals of all sizes and types of businesses in different sectors, SBV’s deposits were mostly venture capital-backed tech…
…spending by decade for retirees, and it shows something we all understand intuitively and that we’ve seen for decades: people spend less as they get older. Part of what caught…
…poster-child of internet bubble mentality that I know its premise. The authors argued that investors would finally come to realize that stocks aren’t risky, would no longer require additional compensation…
…70 percent and the probability of rates at 0.75 percent or higher was less than 15 percent. Since prices change every day to reflect new information (economic data releases, Fed…
…the future, but how much they pay for options contracts on the S&P 500 does signal how much volatility they expect. We’ve written a number of times about the low…
…while core inflation was 1.9 percent (core inflation excludes volatile food and energy costs). Everyone at Acropolis knows that retirees and pre-retirees worry a lot about healthcare costs. A recent…
