The Riskalyze Report: Advisors embrace no-flation

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 $44 billion and counting that advisors manage on the Riskalyze platform*. I…

Buffett vs hedge funds bet through Year Six

Carol Loomis updates us on the seven year bet at the end of Year Six: Results are in for the seventh year of what’s sometimes called The Million-Dollar Bet—Warren Buffett’s 10-year wager that the S&P 500 would outperform a sampling of hedge funds—and, for now at least, it’s looking like a rout for the CEO…

Founders: How We Invented Chipotle

My admiration for Chipotle knows no bounds (see here). I mean the company, not the stock, as I don’t really get into those types of discussions here. But my god, Chipotle the startup, Chipotle the brand, Chipotle the experience – everything about what these guys have done is so amazing, so American. Anyway, head over…

Will the Top-Callers Get Clowned Again?

The S&P 500 finished the first month of the year with a 3.2% loss. By this time last year – the first trading day of February – the S&P 500 had declined by 6% in the first month of 2014 and the top-callers were out in force. Except the market bottomed that day and recovered the entirety…

Q4 Earnings Season Tracks Above Average

Savita Subramanian notes that, overall, Q4 2014 earnings reports are tracking better than average, despite the massive headwinds of FX volatility and energy-related investment stalling. With the conclusion of Week 3—the biggest week of 4Q earnings season—226 companies representing 63% of S&P 500 earnings have reported. Bottom-up EPS jumped $0.51 to $30.06, now tracking above…