Source: Marketwatch
Gold Miners Index Down 30% Since 1993 Inception
If you wanted to own gold in the bad old days, there were only a handful of choices: You could take physical delivery (but if you needed...
Five things you can do to get your financial house in order
A rollicking week in the markets is really a chance to clean up your act Barry Ritholtz Washington Post, August 28 2015 ...
S&P 500’s Dubious Market-Cap Weighted Anniversary
click for larger graphic The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is market-capitalization weighted, meaning that...
Late to the Party Again: Apple Gets Added to the Dow
I want to address the addition of Apple to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, so we have to get a few things out of the way up front. The...
Attention Fiscal Conservatives: New IRA/401k Fiduciary Rules...
Fiscal Hawks Should Love Cheaper Retirement Plans Changes in rules governing retirement-plan managers and advisers will lower their fees,...
How Passive Funds Changed Investing
Fantastic explanatory from the FT on the history of passive investing: click for ginormous infographic Source: FT
The S&P 381 and Other Oddities
Here’s some funky stuff for the day: • The Bespoke Boys point out that 23.8% of the S&P500 381 "no longer fulfill the $5...
S&P500: Better than BRICs!
Fascinating stuff: Of all the lousy bourses, the SPX (White line below) is the least lousiest! >click for bigger chart...