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Don’t Fall For the Siren Song!

By JTheus|2016-02-11T00:17:21+00:00February 11, 2016|Financial Market|

Don't Fall For the Siren Song! The Deceptive Returns of Active Managers I tend not to like reinventing the wheel; there are a number of great authors out there who are ‘singing our song’ - that is discussing the research vis-a-vis what Wall Street hypes. When markets are negatively volatile, it’s easy to get sucked into the siren song of “Beat the Market!” over here, or “Get Better Returns with Us!” over there. It’s important to keep the long view…and understand how the risk in [...]

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Hold the line!

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Hold the line!

By JTheus|2016-01-03T23:05:28+00:00January 3, 2016|Financial Market|

Hold the line! Welcome to 2016! Where the market is giving everyone the heebee-geebees! We’ve been to this dance before folks, and we’re watching who’s pulling the strings. And the truth is: nobody knows where the market is heading next or how long the this roller coaster will last. We’ve had a couple of years of flat to negative returns and everyone is getting itchy. My friend, Dan Wheeler, formerly with Dimensional, has a great analogy about when firemen earn their money. It’s when there’s [...]

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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

By JTheus|2015-11-28T22:52:16+00:00November 28, 2015|Financial Market|

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story Every so often a new show hits Broadway with lights that shine brighter than the rest. In 1996, Rent celebrated a group of impoverished East Village artists struggling to thrive in the shadow of AIDS. In 2003, Wicked imagined the lives of the witches of Oz before Dorothy's unexpected arrival. But who would have thought today's hottest ticket would be a rap-driven bio of the Founding Father responsible for the financial system that collects those taxes we [...]

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The Spinning ‘Talking Heads’

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The Spinning ‘Talking Heads’

By JTheus|2015-10-22T22:26:31+00:00October 22, 2015|Financial Market|

The Spinning ‘Talking Heads’ Watching the ‘market’ squeeze the “false credibility” out the “experts” these past few weeks has been entertaining if nothing else. The end of the 3rd quarter proved annoying, with bouts of anxiety and frustration. It almost feels like 2008 again! In late August, the message was that “everyone should have seen the correction coming”. Even the lead story in the New York Times read “Signs, Long Unheeded, Now Point to Risks in U.S. Economy.” OOPS! Dan Wheeler, Director of Financial Services at [...]

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