Merrill’s clients, pretty much across the board, were buying stocks into the teeth of last week’s vicious sell-off
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Today’s Poll: False Starts
But I digress. Take my poll about “false starts” and let’s see what we end up with:
Are Commodities a Necessary Portfolio Component?
Josh here – This is the problem with the clarion calls of the last decade to make commodities a part of one’s asset allocation because they are “uncorrelated” to traditional stock / bond portfolios. The more people adopt this suggestion, the more “financialized” commodities become, and the less helpful for diversification. And everyone adopted this…
The Riskalyze Report: Why advisors are flocking to REITs this year
Interestingly, advisors didn’t let the volatility of stocks keep them away from REITs
It’s always 1987 somewhere…
Speaking of Ministers Without Portfolio yelling “fire” in a theater… via Danny Jassy
Ministers Without Portfolio
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out who is more mentally ill: the guy taking Twitter victory laps for virtual trades, or the guy who retweets him.
Clips from Today’s Halftime Report
Investment Tip of the Day
We ran the math on this, it totally checks out…
The Death of a Brokerage Firm
And with salespeople like that, trouble can’t be far behind.
The Farce Awakens
One of the worst starts to a calendar year in stock market history. The S&P 500 plunges straight out of the gate and is now 11% off its record high set last year. Volatility brings out the most counterproductive behavior in investors and, almost without fail, brings out the worst sort of advice. Farcical advice, the…
