Money and Finance
- The Taper: Recalibrating Liquidity - By Richard Duncan
The “Taper” has begun. It’s important to understand why. On December 18th, the Fed announced that it will begin to taper the amount of fiat money it creates each month from $85 billion to $75 billion starting in January. Chairman Bernanke also indicated...
- Are Retail Investors ‘fleeing’ Stocks? – By Jason Zweig
Make no mistake: Individual investors are selling more U.S. stocks than they are buying, as my colleague Jack Hough pointed out this weekend. But it’s wrong to rely on mutual funds as the sole or primary indicator of retail flows into or out of U.S....
- Hft Drama Versus Dramatically Lower Costs
Michael Lewis launched his HFT book, did Sixty Minutes on Sunday, and here we are on Wednesday and HFT is still dominating the news cycle. Whatever you think of HFT, Lewis has already won. In our ADHD society, that we are still talking about his book...
- Rebalancing & Managing Your Portfolio
Rebalancing is a basic part of every investor's journey. The process of buying ETFs, then subsequently adding to them is only one part of investing. I've come to realise that rebalancing is an important concept which I must learn. For example,...
- Index Investing In The Singapore Stock Market, What Do I Buy?
Passive Investment Strategy to Index Investing When it comes to investing, most people are searching the web or mindlessly reading through blogpost after blogpost on a hundred different blogs in an attempt to search for the 1 Valuable Thing. The Best...
Money and Finance
ETFs....
“Since the liquidity and daily trading volume of some of the largest ETFs now exceed the liquidity of the stocks that comprise the index, this phenomenon has reached a critical point: indexes, which are meant to measure the performance of, and provide exposure to, groups of stocks, have come to distort the prices of the stocks they are meant to measure – one of the great sorts of ironies that arise from bubble behavior.” –Horizon Kinetics, Q4 2011 Commentary
- The Taper: Recalibrating Liquidity - By Richard Duncan
The “Taper” has begun. It’s important to understand why. On December 18th, the Fed announced that it will begin to taper the amount of fiat money it creates each month from $85 billion to $75 billion starting in January. Chairman Bernanke also indicated...
- Are Retail Investors ‘fleeing’ Stocks? – By Jason Zweig
Make no mistake: Individual investors are selling more U.S. stocks than they are buying, as my colleague Jack Hough pointed out this weekend. But it’s wrong to rely on mutual funds as the sole or primary indicator of retail flows into or out of U.S....
- Hft Drama Versus Dramatically Lower Costs
Michael Lewis launched his HFT book, did Sixty Minutes on Sunday, and here we are on Wednesday and HFT is still dominating the news cycle. Whatever you think of HFT, Lewis has already won. In our ADHD society, that we are still talking about his book...
- Rebalancing & Managing Your Portfolio
Rebalancing is a basic part of every investor's journey. The process of buying ETFs, then subsequently adding to them is only one part of investing. I've come to realise that rebalancing is an important concept which I must learn. For example,...
- Index Investing In The Singapore Stock Market, What Do I Buy?
Passive Investment Strategy to Index Investing When it comes to investing, most people are searching the web or mindlessly reading through blogpost after blogpost on a hundred different blogs in an attempt to search for the 1 Valuable Thing. The Best...