I learned that it is not necessarily the system that makes you the money but the way you handle risk. Going home flat – (Futures Magazine) The hallmark of a good investor realizes that the rules do apply to them and they own the fact that they are no more gifted or special than […]
Category: Other Voices
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Dec
2016
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Nov
2016
Weekend Reads: $33 Billion in a Week
Wow, U.S. stock ETFs have taken in $33b since election a week ago, which accounts for a third of their YTD $100b total. $SPY leading way.. pic.twitter.com/1lQauTOizo — Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) November 16, 2016 Alternative Strategies In ETFs Vs Mutual Funds – (ETF.com) The World’s Safest Bonds Are Actually Wild Risks – (Wall Street Journal) […]
27
Oct
2016
Debt and the Global Economy
Below we will highlight charts we found interesting, given this current environment of “hold on and wait” regarding interest rates.
21
Oct
2016
Weekend Reads: Radar Screen
think of the VIX as a radar screen – where all of the known information the market is reflected on the screen in various blips and dots. The sum of all that information comes out to be the current VIX level.
19
Oct
2016
Alternative Links: Wind Turbines and Farm Land
Investment performance added $2.5 billion during the quarter, boosting assets under management to $80.7 billion from $76.4 billion at the end of June. Man Group Jumps Most in Six Years After Net Inflows Surprise – (Bloomberg) “Seventy percent of U.S. turbines are in low-income rural areas.” Wind Is the New Corn for Struggling Farmers […]
12
Oct
2016
Alternative Links: Liquid Alts in Q3
Managed futures was the only liquid alt category with positive inflows in Q3, per Morningstar data
07
Oct
2016
Weekend Reads: Corzine Settlement
“Nearly five years after Jon S. Corzine presided over the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and became a target of federal investigations, his legal ordeal might be drawing to a close.” 5 Years Later, Jon Corzine May Avoid Trial With $5 Million Settlement – (The New York Times) The Treasury Department (Treasury) […]
23
Sep
2016
Weekend Reads: Six Figure Income, No Savings
These rigs, once famously labeled the “new Ferraris” of the oil world, are no ordinary ships. Carrying a price tag of about $500 million a piece, they are loaded bow to stern with sophisticated, and very heavy, gadgetry. At $500 Million A Pop, It’s An Oil Gamble That Has No Precedent – (Rig Zone) […]
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Sep
2016
Weekend Reads: 250,000 gallons of Oil Spilled in Alabama
Gov. Robert Bentley issued an executive order Thursday declaring a state of emergency in Alabama over concerns about fuel shortages in the wake of a gasoline pipeline spill that released about 250,000 gallons of gasoline south of Birmingham and shut down a major pipeline connecting refineries in Houston with the rest of the country.
09
Sep
2016
Weekend Reads: Families in Debt
The share of families in debt … remained almost unchanged between 1989 and 2007 and then increased 50% between 2007 and 2013
