I have a brimming, bottomless well of disgust inside me. It takes a constant effort to keep this black bile from rising up into my throat, to keep its acidic bite from eating into the lining of my mouth. I choke it down, but it never goes away. So sometimes, no matter how hard I try,…

as disorienting as this all feels, the truth is that double-digit drawdowns from prior highs in the S&P 500 are not an anomaly

Very big news to relay about the firm this afternoon… It is my honor to introduce you to the new Director of Corporate Retirement Plans at Ritholtz Wealth Management, Daniel McConlogue. Dan is the principal and founder of Eleven O’Clock Associates, a financial planning, asset management and retirement plan consulting firm based in Estero, Florida….

“the higher the Vix, the higher the clicks.”

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You are going to lose sometimes, no matter how good you are. This is how to lose right.

At the request of so many investment advisors, my friends at Riskalyze share the big trends in the assets going into and coming out of advisor portfolios every week. The underlying data is aggregated from hundreds of thousands of client accounts across the $120 billion and counting that advisors manage on the Riskalyze platform*. I…

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Nobody is happy about the fact that the systemically important banks that survived the crisis are now bigger than ever. But at least they’re being regulated to within an inch of their lives. Risk-taking is down substantially, so is leverage, and lots of, shall we say, non-core trading activity has been jettisoned to the hedge…