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One Crazy Summer
May 10, 2012Market Reflection During the first quarter of the year the markets continued the rise they began last October. The S&P 500 ended the quarter up +12.59% and even Europe saw a nice little recovery, with the MSCI Europe ex-UK Index (Europe without Great Britain) rising +12.36%. If you looked at this rise through a short-term lens, things might appear to be improving. But not so fast. Since the beginning of the quarter, the S&P 500 gave back -3.64% while the MSCI Europe ex-UK dropped -9...
Read MoreEfficient or Inefficient Markets, Passive or Active Management?
April 18, 2012Investing in today’s markets can be a daunting task for most people. The sheer volume of information available can be quite overwhelming to the average investor. Not only is there a massive amount of available information, much of it is also conflicting. One major area of conflict is the lifelong question asked by advisors and investors alike – what is the best investing methodology to employ: passive (efficient) or active management (inefficient). Passive Management and Efficient Market Hypothesis Explained Passive management is the practice of investing by indexing your portfolio with the overall market. Index investors contend that the lower cost of investing combined with improved tax efficiency and the reduction of manager underperformance risk, make index investing more ...
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Maintaining Perspective: A Year in Perspective and Perspective into a Year
February 9, 2012Unless you were living in a small village in Mozambique, I don’t have to tell you what an eventful year 2011 was. Headlines were plentiful. Abroad, we started off the year with a nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan. This was followed-up by the ramp-up of the grass-roots democratic reform of the Arab Spring which eventually lead to the collapse of major long-term dictatorships in Libya and Egypt. Europe was a train-wreck all year and provided glimpses of hope throughout the year, only to be tr...
Read MoreYou Can Bank on It, Europe
January 5, 2012Stop me if you've seen this movie before. Banks hold the key to both crash and recovery in Europe (they did here too). I'm afraid the recent ECB 3-year 1% loan efforts to banks may be too little too late for some of the most troubled banks; and this week we have started to see the fear and risk of contagion spread. Remember the word systemic? It may have been the most widely used word in 2008 - and for good reason. Lehman Bros failed. Morgan Stanley, Goldman and Merrill would have failed had ...
Read MoreStructural Change Needed
December 2, 2011I want to share this article with you from a guy that I follow fairly regularly. Economics have primarily driven the market moves we have witnessed this past year. From an econ perspective, there is not much optimism that the Eurozone will be able to fix their problems without massive structural change. There is considerable historical data on the fate of currency unions to support this. I had a great discussion a few weeks back with a friend that grew up in the 60's (race riots, MLK, Vie...
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