Joshua M Brown

Chart o’ the Day: Which ETFs are we buying this year?

BlackRock’s latest monthly report on flows in the exchange traded product (ETP) space has some great information in it. The headline is that, through September, inflows for all ETPs totals $124.2 billion, putting us within reach of 2013’s full-year intake of $190.2 billion. Here’s a look at where the money’s been going thus far in…

Meet Ritholtz Wealth Management in Washington D.C.

On October 15th and 16th, my partner Barry Ritholtz and our director of financial planning, Kris Venne, will be in Washington D.C. meeting with clients of the firm. They’ve carved out some time to sit down with prospective clients as well, including a cocktail hour at a place and time to be decided. If you’d like…

Stocks Explode Higher on Fears of Renewed Economic Weakness

I swear I’m not auditioning for The Onion. This is what actually happened. Peter Boockvar on the Fed’s minutes, released at 2pm: While nothing new, according to the just released FOMC minutes from the meeting 3 weeks ago, a majority of the committee remains deathly afraid of raising rates off zero. They still have very…

An Investing Frankenstein

Patrick O’Shaughnessy attempts to combine all the key attributes in order to create a “Perfect Investor” in a new post at his site, Millennial Invest. I’ll go the other way around and build the absolute worst investor, taking the worst qualities that we can possess to create an absolute Frankenstein monster… 1. Obsesses over each day’s activity…

Never Forget Whose Recovery This Is

You may or may not be doing better now than ever before. But it’s highly unlikely you’re doing as well as the Fortune 500. Last night DoubleLine’s Bonnie Baha and Robert Cohen went through a presentation entitled M&A Wave in connection with their relatively new Floating Rate Fund. Three slides jumped out at me that…

Yeah I said it.

A market dip is when you notice the drop in your portfolio value. A market correction is when your wife does. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) October 8, 2014

“Stocks and bonds aren’t good enough anymore” – Wall Street

Here’s what’s coming down the pike, high net worth investors, and don’t say you haven’t been warned. The powers that be in Wall Street’s massive asset management units have figured out a workaround for the problem of investors no longer willing to pay up for stock or bond picking. It’s called “Alternatives” and a major push…