Yesterday, after the market close, the first quarter earnings season officially kicked off with Alcoa releasing results for the quarter.  Alcoa reported earnings per share of $0.14 on revenue of... Read More

Michael Hasenstab, chief investment officer of Templeton Global Macro looks at the world and sees a monetary experiment filled with economic and political risk. Those risks can take the... Read More

We decided to start this week's letter with the latest data put out from the Federal Reserve's latest "Survey of Consumer Finance."  The headline data posted shows that the... Read More

Adding active indexes to your portfolio can enhance long term results.  AlphaClone Mirror Portfolios allow long term investors to easily take advantage of the potential power of active indexing in... Read More

A federal bank regulator is warning that financial institutions are increasingly coming under cyberattack, specifically pointing to a threat of banks being hacked and then finding themselves subject of extortion schemes. Bank... Read More

When real government interest rates are at zero percent or actually turn negative, what does that tell investors? If investors are willing to lend the government money without receiving... Read More

Insolvency petitions spiked more than 30% year over year in the Cayman Islands, as 2013 was a year when investors started to grow impatient with fund managers who domicile... Read More

Emotions In Motion: Making Decisions In Difficult Times by Tom Macpherson, Dorfman Value Investments “Emotions are jolted by too much information and the wrong type of information. That’s the problem... Read More

Short interest in Air France - KLM (OTCMKTS:AFLYY) (EPA:AF), the French flag carrier airline, is on the rise according to disclosures filed with the French regulatory authority, AMF. In... Read More

Corsair Capital returned 4.6% net for the fourth quarter, bringing its 2022 return to -15.8% net. Corsair Select was up 6% net for the fourth quarter, capping its full-year... Read More