“As a Canadian investor I am constantly scolded…”

Here’s LPL Research’s Burt White and Jeffrey Buchbinder with an important breakout not many people are discussing – US economic data is now surprising to the upside, after a year and a half of negatively-skewed reports… The Citigroup Economic Surprise Index, or CESI, tracks how economic data are faring relative to expectations. The index rises when economic…

Vanguard is implementing measures to control asset growth…

Earlier this morning, we looked at the most recent SPIVA data on five years’ worth of mutual fund performance. It wasn’t pretty. In a new research note, Deutsche Bank looks at what it calls The Great Divide. It’s a musing on the idea that mutual fund flows are being driven almost entirely by Fed policy –…

Institutional managers have lower fees, does it help performance?

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“It’s real. Oh my god…”

As you can see, we’re guilty but not nearly as much as everyone else is. Australians in particular are outrageous 🙂

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