This Week On TRB

Cartoon by Bruce Plante, Tulsa World  These were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them:

Another Bulls*** Myth Debunked

“The large cap space is too competitive so active managers do a much better job in small caps, where their skills add value.” You’ve heard that before. A lot. Except it isn’t true. At least not over any length of time that actually matters. S&P Dow Jones Indices is out with their latest SPIVA Scorecard, with…

What if Oil Runs Back to $80 this Year?

An interesting speculation on the part of UBS’s economists about oil this morning. The firm asks which areas of investment will be winners and losers should the price of oil rebound to $80 by the end of this year. They guess that there’s a 25% chance of this occurring based on past price swings… The…