Twitter and the Fed

Research shows that trading strategies built around tweets in the days preceding Fed meetings have been profitable, writes Steve Russolillo in this week’s The Wall Street Journal. As the use…

Quant Strategies Continue to Evolve

While the financial crisis of 2007 spurred a lot of questions regarding the role that quantitative investment strategies played in the market’s drop, these strategies continue to evolve, writes Validea…

Buffett Could Benefit Big with Trump

President-elect Trump’s proposed corporate tax reform could be great news for Warren Buffett, according to an article in last week’s Barron’s. A drop in the tax rate from the current…

Active Investors Get a Chance to Shine

From the investor’s standpoint, a low level of unemployment isn’t necessarily good news, says a recent Bloomberg article. However, it can bode well for active versus passive investors. When more…

Beware of Rosy Stock Market Predictions

We’ve written before about the precarious nature of forecasts, and an article in last week’s Wall Street Journal sings the same tune—that investors shouldn’t get “carried away” with predictions that…

More Upside in International Stocks

The continued grind of the bull market may not be justified, according to an article in this week’s Investment News. In fact, the article, written by Joe Smith, senior market strategist…

Where Are the Women Fund Managers?

A Morningstar study published last year found that in the U.S. women run a measly 2% of the mutual fund industry’s assets, reports an article in last week’s Barron’s. The…

"Irrational Exuberance" Revisited

This past Monday marks the twenty-year anniversary of former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan’s famous speech in which he used the phrase in reference to then-stretched equity valuations. In last week’s…