Some may think that an actively managed fund should at least beat the market, because this is what we pay them more for. 78% of them fail to even do this. It’s pretty common knowledge these days that about 8 out of 10 active funds fail to beat the market, in spite of all the […]
We’ve been speaking about how risky bonds are right now and to expect a significant pullback. Few bond investors really understand even why such things should matter to them. It takes very little understanding of bonds or markets to get why the run-up that we’ve seen with bonds over the last year should concern us, […]
When we see a company such as Kraft Heinz get hammered so much, we usually think that it’s the grocery business itself that is to blame. This has been all by their own hand. Given the sheer ugliness of Kraft Heinz’s stock over the last few years, and we might want to try to explain […]
Given how large the grass roots campaign against wealth inequality has grown, with two presidential candidates now in tow, if we’re going to improve this, we need to be careful. We see all sorts of numbers out there telling us just how concentrated wealth is among the elite, the top 1%, the top 0.1%, the […]
Should Elizabeth Warren become elected president, and should her proposed tax hikes get put into place, the estimates of a 20-30% loss in the stock market may be on the low side. It isn’t all that easy to predict what effect having Elizabeth Warren as president might do to the stock market, but by just […]
People have been concerned for a while now about the risk of an upcoming pullback in stocks. There are good ways to protect yourself, but you have to actually take the reins. While we usually think of investment as the pursuit of positive returns over time, and that’s a big part of the reason why […]
While we recently ran an article explaining why dividends never make sense, a lot of stocks offer them. We don’t want to just shun them, but they need to earn their keep. If we are attracted to the idea of investing in higher dividend stocks, as many people either were already or have become more […]
Canopy Growth, the world’s largest legal marajuana producing company, has been in freefall since firing their CEO earlier this year. The freefall continues to accelerate. Canadian marajuana producer Canopy Growth remains in serious trouble, and one look at their chart says it all. Just seeing a stock drop from around $50 last April to barely […]
When we look to predict the future, the assumptions we make will determine what the future will hold. Research Associates have used theirs to predict a dim outlook for large caps. In spite of all the advancements that modern civilization has made, some things remain in a pretty nascent stage, and our understanding of the […]
People have been discussing all year whether or not investors should pull back or even get out of stocks. This dialogue is picking up again, and this is at least worth thinking on. We have to speculate as to why any investor who is not close to needing to cash in would want to do […]