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The Best of Both Worlds: Active and Passive Investing
By Bob SeawrightPassive investing is predicated upon the efficient markets hypothesis that it is impossible to beat the market over time except by being lucky. In reality, however, there is an abundance of evidence that markets are less than perfectly efficient.
April 24, 2012
Cerulli: Emerging Markets, Commodities Top New ETF Product PlansAccording to the survey, U.S. equity, international (excluding emerging markets) equity account for the new product plans of, respectively, 53% and 47% of ETF sponsors. U.S. taxable bonds, currency and other alternatives (e.g., alternative allocation, managed futures) make up the new product plans of one-third ETS sponsors.
April 24, 2012
Cerulli: Emerging Markets, Commodities Top New ETF Product PlansAccording to the survey, U.S. equity, international (excluding emerging markets) equity account for the new product plans of, respectively, 53% and 47% of ETF sponsors. U.S. taxable bonds, currency and other alternatives (e.g., alternative allocation, managed futures) make up the new product plans of one-third ETS sponsors.
April 24, 2012
2012 IA 25; Investing in Russia; Tech and ROI: May Investment Advisor—SlideshowMay brings the 10th annual IA 25 (well, ninth if you dont count our special 30th anniversary edition, Thirty for Thirty, in 2010), Investment Advisors editors pick of the 25 most influential people in the industry.
April 19, 2012
French Yields Rise in Advance of ElectionFrance and Spain sold bonds, but yields crept higher despite the evident willingness of investors to buy.
April 18, 2012
Buffett Cancer Diagnosis Has Analysts, Investors ScramblingThe topic most raised was that of Buffetts successor.
April 18, 2012
Spain Should Solve Its Own Problems: German Bank ChiefJens Weidmann, a policymaker at the European Central Bank and head of Germany's Bundesbank, said Spain should look upon its rising bond yields as a signal that it needs to fix its own problems and not look to the ECB for help via bond purchases.
April 17, 2012
TD Ameritrade CEO Points to Soft Trading in 20% Profit DropPresident and Chief Executive Fred Tomczyk said earnings and revenue were right on consensus, though he did acknowledge that TD Ameritrades trades were down at a rate of 51,000 per day.