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Seeking AlphaComparing Mutual Funds To ETFs And SMAsForbesIn two of my recent columns, I described the questionable behaviors of mutual funds and the costs of mutual funds. I presented a lot of bad news. Sorry about that. But I also promised to discuss alternative ways of investing. I am going …
Investors are increasingly favoring so-called passive funds that blindly track market indexes at the expense of active funds that rely on a manager to pick stocks.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump © Getty Images Presidential elections have often marked major changes in American attitudes towards fiscal policy. The arrival of President Kennedy in 1960 represented the beginning of Keynesian fiscal activism. President Nixon’s election in 1968 marked the high point of inflationary budgetary policy designed to finance …
For managers of money, the post-crisis low growth world has had major implications for asset allocation strategies. Assumptions about returns are greatly affected by both monetary easing used to counteract the slowing and the yield curve flattening that is indicative of easing’s ineffectiveness. Recent research on demographic trends and …