What if You Actually Wanted to Go Active?
Being a Stock-Picker Is Just So Hard Forget the higher costs of active investing; the real problem is achieving the desired goals...
Freakonomics: The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money
Bogle. Fama. French. Ritholtz? Yes, on this huge, special edition of Freakonomics on index/investing. Its chock filled of...
Q&A with Tim Buckley, Vanguard Group’s incoming CEO
Earlier this month, we learned that William McNabb, Vanguard Group’s current Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, will step down as...
How Active is Your Passive?
Finding the Active in Low-Cost Passive Investing There are any number of ways to construct an index. Some lead to more trading than...
EM Index Investing Milestones, 1980 forward
Very cool timeline via Blackrock: click for ginormous graphic Source: BlackRock
Death of Hedge Funds Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Hedge Funds Are the Ultimate Survivors Despite market-lagging performance and high fees, they manage more money than ever. Bloomberg,...
MIB: Bill Sharpe Pricing Stocks, Assessing Risk
This week on our Masters in Business radio podcast, we sit down with William F. Sharpe, winner of the 1990 Sveriges...
Defending Vanguard’s Low Fees
Vanguard Actually Is Good at What It Does The low-cost fund provider has upended the investing world. That’s something to laud, not...