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3 Reasons to Consider Spanish Stocks
by Russ Koesterich, iShares Europe is far from out of the woods. Bond yields in Italy and Spain…
Navigating Volatility: The Case for Tactical Alpha
In today's volatile markets, alternative investments are key for diversification, resilience, and returns, but they demand expertise to navigate. Ash Lawrence, Head of AGF Capital Partners and Scott Radke, CEO and Co-CIO of New Holland Capital discuss...
Managing Equity Risk: Some Rules for the Road
by Kurt Feuerman, AllianceBernstein Under the surface of May’s strong equity returns were major shifts in sector leadership,…
Tail-Risk Parity: The Quest for a Crash-Proof Portfolio
by Ashwin Alankar (pictured) and Michael DePalma, AllianceBernstein By any name—Black Swan, three-standard-deviation event or negative tail event—the…
The Art of Low Turnover (Smead)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management We have argued vociferously that active managers have given up their preferred…
Technical Talk: Comprehensive Market Technical Rundown (June 17, 2013)
Pre-opening Comments for Monday June 17th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were…
Changing Picture? (Sonders)
June 14, 2013 by Liz Ann Sonders, Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Strategist, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.…
Who is Your Daddy and What Does He Do?
by Cole Smead, CFA, Smead Capital Management In the 1990 movie Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed a police…
Thackray Market Letter (June 2013)
Thackray Market Letter (June 2013) Market Update As the S&P 500 continued to rise in May, I kept…
The Bear Case for Equities
The bear case for equities by Cam Hui, Humble Student of the Markets I have been fairly bullish…
Jeffrey Saut: "Thinking About Thinking?"
“Thinking About Thinking?” by Jeffrey Saut, Chief Investment Strategist, Raymond James June 10, 2013 “Thinking, good thinking that…
Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering Talk
Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering Talk (via Market Shadows) Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering…
The Day The Big Fat Junk-Bond Bubble Blew Up
The Day The Big Fat Junk-Bond Bubble Blew Up (via Market Shadows) Courtesy of Wolf Richter, www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter…
Why Don’t Investors Understand Emerging Markets?
by Tassos Stassopoulos, AllianceBernstein Big is not necessarily beautiful when it comes to forecasting emerging markets. In fact,…
Portfolio Comfort in Stock Splits (Smead)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management We have noticed that there has been a dearth of stock splits…
Fickle Investor Sentiment
One common trait of individual investors during the equity bull market run since November is restraint. Based on…
