5 better names for Ritholtz/Brown’s new RIA firm
Anyone who spends time on this blog, or anywhere in the financial blogosphere/twitterverse/internet for that matter, has seen master Blogger/Tweeters Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture blog and Josh...
View ArticleMade up Trading Aphorisms
If there’s one space where the finance world can let loose and have some fun, it’s Twitter… especially on Friday with a catchy hashtag. What better way to poke a little fun at “the live or die trading...
View ArticleWhat if you had invested $1,000 in these (other) IPO’s
The finance world was abuzz today about Twitter’s much ballyhooed IPO, which quickly rose from the starting price of $26 to $45, good for 73% over the listing price. It looked all too easy, and one of...
View Article5 “other” All Time Highs
Is it just us or does all this coverage of the stock market indices at all time highs remind you of the 1983 Bond movie Octopussy theme song “All Time High.” Maybe we just have a thing for cheesy 80’s...
View ArticleWhy Hedge Funds Don’t Care if They’re Underperforming the S&P
With the S&P 500 showing triple digit returns since the financial crisis, we’ve noticed there have been more and more publications denouncing hedge funds as under performing the S&P 500. We...
View ArticleA Big List of Alternative Investment Folks on Twitter
Looks like this is sort of a thing now… saying here’s a list of 10, 50, 106 “must follows” on twitter, just as we’ve seen with Business Insider’s “106 Finance People You Have to Follow on Twitter”,...
View ArticleWeekend Reads
You know it’s been an interesting week when Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests the idea that could potentially save America from its own foreign policy problems regarding Syria. Even though this...
View ArticleAlternative Links: 15% of Assets to Liquid Alts
That’s why Grant Engelbart, portfolio manager at the $7 billion CLS Investments, says he plans to use more alternative funds next year. While he typically allocates as much as 15% of assets to liquid...
View ArticleHow Will Trump Affect the Global Macro / Managed Futures World?
Today, we published our 2017 Managed Futures/Global Macro Outlook, and there’s one rather ‘in the news’ figure we couldn’t help but analyze given his penchant for market moving tweets and what not....
View ArticleInfographic: The Highs and Lows of IPOs
It might surprise you to hear that despite the amount of effort that is going into covering new IPO’s like SNAP, fewer and fewer companies are doing it. In 1996 (rise of the dot com bubble), there were...
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