Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett reportedly proposed investing $3 billion in Uber Technologies earlier this year, but disagreements over terms took the deal off the table. This according to a…
Day: June 11, 2018
Rob Arnott on Indexing
A recent article in Barron’s outlines recent research by “modern-day Socrates” Rob Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates, which suggests “index-fund managers are willfully ignoring low-hanging alpha—the ability to beat the…
Active and Passive Investors: Which Perform Better?
Morningstar’s director of global ETF research, Ben Johnson, recently shared research regarding the relative performance of active and passive investors with Christine Benz. Morningstar’s data on domestic equity cash flow-weighted…
Interest Rates are the Market's New Boss
Interest rates are now more important than profits for stock performance, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. “The first quarter was very good for U.S. companies,…