Mutual Funds are continuing to fall out of favor with investors while ETFs continue to see ever-increasing inflows, that’s the key takeaway from Morgan Stanley’s June 20 Asset Managers... read more

We were running Opium between seven Asian Ports and business was GOOD! Hong Kong was our home base, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Saigon, Manila, Singapore, and Batavia (Batavia is the old Dutch... read more

The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) has had a rough year, dropping sharply at the end of January ahead of the general market slump, and still only trading slightly ahead... read more

Despite some well-founded concerns that the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) is currently overbought, if this recovery follows historical patterns, the market will continue to grow and investors shouldn’t be looking... read more

In the event of the Fed staying dovish and/or the RMB depreciating further against the USD, Goldman Sachs analysts anticipate that macro flows would stay equity-friendly in the near term.... read more

An argument soothing nerves over the current geopolitical standoff with North Korea is that rational leaders are going to avoid war. Such soothing voices point to the stock market,... read more

Berkshire Hathaway repurchased $1.2bn of its stock from a long-time shareholder in its most significant buyback ever. The company also changed the threshold for share repurchases to 120% of book value from... read more

ICAHN REPORTEDLY SHOPPING HERBALIFE LTD. (NYSE:HLF) SHARES JUST DAYS AFTER HIS QUESTIONABLE FTC SETTLEMENT PR by Quoth The Raven Research @QTRResearch Wall Street Journal confirms Icahn has been shopping his Herbalife... read more

Just day’s after Baupost’s Jim Mooney wrote a letter warning of dangerous volatility patterns and risks of systematic strategies such as risk parity exacerbating a S&P 500 sell off,... read more

In an increasingly competitive mutual fund environment, where passive investing and smart beta is the trend du jour, can a small niche fund find success? It can if that... read more