By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The pictures and charts outlined below may actually be worth much more: 30 million unemployed.$7 trillion on…
Tag: Market Trends
Does the Rally Have Stamina?
A Bloomberg article published on March 26th describes that the S&P 500’s sudden uptick as the “quickest three-day advance in nine decades. As absurd as it may seem, the Dow’s…
Five Questions: A Balanced Look at the Future of ETFs with Nate Geraci
The ETF landscape has been undergoing significant change in recent years. Although the lowest fee products and the largest providers continue to dominate, several new trends have the potential to…
The Hot “Quant” Industry is Suffering a Winter
The exciting frontier of quantitative investing, which has drawn huge inflows over the last ten years, is suffering a rough patch that is raising questions, according to an article in…
Hindsight Capital’s Decade of Wins
A recent article in Bloomberg chronicles the past decade’s track record of a “mythical” hedge fund called Hindsight Capital LLC with a tongue-in-cheek account of its wildly successful trades. The…
CalPERS Fires Bulk of Equity Managers
The $380 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest in the U.S., has fired most of its external equity managers, cutting their allocation from $33.6 billion to $5.5…
New Link Between Stocks and Bonds reflects Change in Market
A pattern has emerged over the last decade in which value share performance has increased when the yield curve has steepened, a relationship that represents changes in investor behavior. This…
Dead ETFs Cause for Celebration
The number of defunct ETFs hit 1,000 this year and should be considered “healthy and natural in a thriving—albeit brutal—market.” This according to a recent Bloomberg article. “On the practical…
Markets Have Lost Their Cool, and Here’s Why
A recent bump in market volatility underscores “why investors should mistrust serene markets,” according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. On Wall Street, the article explains, market…
Charts that Scare Wall Street
A recent article in Bloomberg offers a compilation of what it calls “Wall Street’s chilling charts” that highlight ongoing concerns about high levels of corporate debt, volatile markets and the…