Posts Tagged ‘investing’
What Should Come Next In ETFs? Part Deux
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Well I was not expecting a followup to yesterday's post, well not today anyway, but it is appropriate. Perhaps coincidentally to yesterday's post or perhaps not I had a conversation with a
What Should Come Next In ETFs?
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
In the last few days there have been a couple of posts touching on the idea of what direction the ETF industry might go in; one from Mebane Faber revisiting a wish list from four years ago
Learning From Tunisia
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Charles Kirk kicked off yesterday's daily email with a quote from Seth Klarman from the Baupost Group as follows; "The best investors in the world do not target returns; they focus
Wednesday Twofer
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Yesterday at the gym I saw a guy on the treadmill with a Walkman-like device that looked older than the one pictured to the left. He had cassettes and everything to pop into that
Frontier Markets
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
I meant to get to this before but a while back Dow Jones redid their country classification such that they now recognize countries as being frontier (apparently this is new for them). This is
The Big Picture For The Week of January 16, 2011
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
The US market is off to a strange start in 2011 continuing a nice run that started months ago. At the same time the economic data seems to point more toward malaise in terms of jobless claims,
Gooooood Morning…Laos?
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
The other day the Wall Street Journal had a writeup on the new stock exchange in Laos. Laos as an investment destination? While I'm sure it will be a while before Laos Telecom lists and ADR on
I’m The Only One Who Thinks This, But Still
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
The other day IndexUniverse noted that the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 Portfolio (PRF) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The article also noted that the fund had doubled the return of the
Sunday Morning Coffee
Monday, January 10th, 2011
A few weeks ago I was interviewed for an article on CNBC.com about investing in farmland . To read that article but none of my blog posts I came across as a cockeyed optimist without a care in
Single Stock VIXs?
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Bill Luby from the Vix And More blog stumbled across what I think can be very useful if it catches on. The Chicago Board Option Exchange will start calculating a VIX like index for five
