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Joshua M Brown
Hot Links: Dreaded
What I’m reading this morning
How many active mutual funds have beaten the S&P 500 in 8 consecutive years?
How many active mutual funds have beaten the S&P 500 in each of the last 8 consecutive years? Four. Here’s Chuck Jaffe at Marketwatch, who is jeopardizing a lot of ad dollars for the parent company by saying this: Today, even the most ardent fund investor would have a tough time knowing which fund and/or manager…
Selecting a Robo-Advisor
Question #2: How many colors can you show in your pie charts that depict my asset allocation? Robo-advisors are not only known for their low fees for basic services but they also give their clients stunningly beautiful pie charts to understand and visualize investable assets. The pie chart is the robo-advisor’s signature tool in emotionally connecting…
Guess Which City Has the Hottest Retail Sales Growth?
Virtually every economic report is a non sequitur in relation to its predecessor in the series.
Hot Links: Global Risk-Off
What I’m reading this morning
Chart o’ the Day: 1 in 3 US Workers is a Millennial
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QOTD: Inflation is still just wishful thinking
How to interpret the recent backup in sovereign bond yields
Hot Links: Prepping for a Fight
What I’m reading this morning
Observations from the Mission
(a shot I took from the new CNBC bureau high atop Market Street, overlooking the Ferry Building) Four days in San Francisco seeing our wealth management clients and meeting with prospective clients. It was quite a whirlwind. Ten random observations about the city, in no particular order… 1. The local economy is obviously on fire. Career…
