BBRG: Index Funds Don’t Hurt Consumers, But Monopolies Do
Index Funds Don’t Hurt Consumers, But Monopolies Do Critics of passive investing blame the wrong thing for higher prices in some...
Why Would Indexers Become Anti-Competitive Monopolists?
I have previously discussed all of the ways active managers have been slagging low cost indexers, but here is a quick reminder for...
What’s in Your Index Fund?
Index Funds Sure Don’t Seem Like Libor Arguments that they lack transparency or may be subject to manipulation are largely off base....
BBRG: Index Funds Sure Don’t Seem Like Libor
Index Funds Sure Don’t Seem Like Libor Arguments that they lack transparency or may be subject to manipulation are largely off base....
Market Volatility is a Feature not a Bug
Why the 401(k) Millionaires Club Got Smaller Last Year For those who thought markets only go up, 2018 was an unwelcome surprise....
No Way to Pick Stocks: The Trouble with Stock-Picking Contests
Stock-Picking Contests Are No Way to Pick Stocks But they could be made more useful with some simple changes. Bloomberg, January 31, 2019...
MIB: 95% of Crypto Will Die a Painful Death
There are over 2000 crypto-currencies being traded today, and more are being created every day. Matt Hougan, former CEO of Inside ETFs,...
Transcript: Matt Hougan on ETFs, Crypto
The transcript from this week’s MIB: Matt Hougan on ETFs, Crypto, is below. You can stream/download the full...
BBRG: Stock-Picking Contests Are No Way to Pick Stocks
Stock-Picking Contests Are No Way to Pick Stocks But they could be made more useful with some simple changes. Bloomberg, January 31, 2019...
Share of Sector Market Capitalization: 1900 vs 2018
In the 1800s, when stock market indices were first introduced, they covered railroads and industrials. That was it — a 2 sector...