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Top-End Small Cap Fund Company Doing Well Overseas
Brown Capital Management’s Small Company Fund beats 99% of its peers. They also have a newer fund focused on foreign stocks that is getting accolades. Do they deserve…
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Grantham Tells Investors Climate Change Will Trample Them
Jeremy Grantham is as passionate about climate change as they come in the industry, enough to allow him to think that climate change will trample our portfolios somehow.…
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Sanders Win in New Hampshire Stokes the Fire
The idea of Bernie Sanders being the stock market’s best hope for Trump to win is starting to gain more traction. We need to be careful when we…
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Pivotal Research Downgrades Facebook to a Sell
Fundamental stock analysts don’t usually like using the “s” word, and by the time they tell you to sell, you should have sold a long time ago. This…
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ETFs Did Not Have a Tough Last Year as Is Claimed
We might want to think that seeing less new ETFs introduced last year, as well as a higher percentage of them closing, might not look so good for…
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Why So Many Mutual Funds Can’t Beat the Indexes
Investing in stock indexes doesn’t require any skill in stock picking at all. How can no skill beat the presumed skill of fund managers? They obviously aren’t using…
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Annuities About to Have a Bigger Footprint in 401(k)s
With the SEC making the offering of annuities in companies’ 401(k) retirement plans easier, we are now scrambling to make this type of investment more transparent. There is…
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Law Professor Hoping Sanders Will “Save Capitalism”
What does the left-wing branch of corporate and antitrust law look like? Wayne State law professor Sanjukta Paul gives us a glimpse, and it’s a pretty strange world…
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Exxon Mobil Stubbornly Refuses to Cut its Dividend
Oil giant Exxon Mobil has increased its dividend for the last 17 years without fail. They want to increase it again this year. They don’t have the money,…
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Is the Stock Market Guilty of “Casino Capitalism”?
Ralph Nader is at it again, and he’s now accusing the stock market of promoting “casino capitalism.” Could it be that Mr. Nader is starting to figure out…