Quant fund interest in China has skyrocketed, an article in Financial Times contends. Last month, the quant titan DE Shaw applied for direct access to China’s financial markets. It’s the…
Robinhood Battles Investor Apathy
In August, Robinhood acquired Say Technologies, creating a platform that allows its individual investors to engage with company executives in a way that was once the exclusive domain of institutional…
Five Lessons Our Podcast Guests Would Teach Your Average Investor
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — One of the things many podcasts have in common is a standard closing question that they ask all their guests. For most of the history of…
Ritholtz Wealth CFO Bill Sweet Talks the Biden Tax Plan, Direct Indexing and Lessons From Their Rapid Growth
This week we talk to Ritholtz Wealth CFO Bill Sweet. Bill has had a very unique career, which started serving our country in the military and also included a stint…
Bitcoin Futures ETFs Have Arrived Bigtime
In a milestone for cryptocurrency, the first Bitcoin futures ETF hit the markets this week after winning regulatory approval late last week, reports Barron’s. The fund’s sponsor ProShares filed a…
Inflation Increases in Canada at Fastest Rate Since 2003
Driven by supply chain bottlenecks and higher food, housing, and transport costs, inflation rose out of the Bank of Canada’s control range for the 6th month in a row, reports…
1987 Market Crash Culprits Remain A Mystery
Stock market crashes are rare and destructive, and an article in Barron’sreexamines the red flags leading up to 1987’s Black Monday crash, when the Dow plummeted 507.99 points, a record…
SEC GameStop Report Debunks Conspiracies
The eagerly-awaited SEC report on the January GameStop frenzy was released on Monday, and it debunks conspiracy theories spun out on social media as well as bolsters SEC Chair Gary…
What’s Wrong With Negative Yields?
In an interview with CFA Institute, Vineer Bhansali had a two-pronged answer to the question “Is there really anything wrong with negative yields?” Stating there’s nothing fundamental about negative yields,…
The Importance of Quality Shareholders
Investors who research and buy individual companies are becoming increasingly rare, according to Larry Cunningham in an interview with Wealthtrack. The most obvious example is Warren Buffett, famous for buying…