Too Many Products?
Here’s a question for investors: Is Wall Street creating too many products? The short answer is yes; the longer answer may be a bit...
Advice to Saudi Aramco’s CIO
Saudi Arabia is about to confront a serious challenge: Where and how to invest the money in a gigantic new sovereign wealth fund created...
Why Plan Sponsors need Professional (Independent) Advice?
Dan McConlogue is the Director of Corporate Retirement Plans at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Dan is the principal and founder of Eleven...
Telling Clients No
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at whether financial advisors should always...
How Reproducible is Alpha?
Is alpha, the Wall Street term for market-beating returns, sustainable? Or is it a unique, statistical outlier, indistinguishable from...
Why is Active Failing?
We all know that indexing is cheaper than active management, in which a fund manager selects specific assets for investment. But the...
Americans Fall Out of Love with Owning Stocks
Before the Great Recession, almost two-thirds of Americans owned stocks. That number has since fallen to a little more than half, as you...
First Rule of Running Other Peoples’ Money? Do No Harm
The enlightened view on managing other people’s money Barry Ritholtz Washington Post, March 20, 2016 I have long been an...
First rule of running others’ money? Do no harm
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at the debate on the Fiduciary rule. The...
How Many Active Managers Outperform Their Benchmarks?
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