It’s been a wild ride for Platform Specialty Products and Bill Ackman. When the firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 24, 2014, trading at $14.40 per... Read More

2014 has been another stellar year for low fee passively managed index funds. Investors continued to vote with their feet, piling investment dollars into passive funds and avoiding under-performing active... Read More

Women and men take similar risks in their portfolios, a Vanguard study noted, but women take advice from professionals in building their portfolios and those accepting professional assistance performed... Read More

After generating -12.17% performance in 2013 and starting out 2014 with -4.78% in January, Aref Karim, chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Quality Capital Management (QCM), laments... Read More

As JANA Partners took a new position in FMC Corp (NYSE:FMC), the question becomes: what are they after? Also see: FutureAdvisor Offers Asset Management Services In A Low-Fee World JANA added... Read More

Developing a circle of competence is a fundamentally important part of every investors' education. The circle of competence is a term Warren Buffett has used over the years as... Read More

Oil prices fell 8% on Monday, proving to anyone who still needed the lesson that macro is hard and pricing commodities isn’t for the faint of heart. But in... Read More

Jim Chanos, the legendary short seller who made a name for himself by betting against Enron, announced on CNBC this morning that his hedge fund, Kynikos Associates, has built a... Read More

The US elections are not going to end in the “transformational” result that is currently being considered, a July 24 Morgan Stanley research report says. A population turning its... Read More

Globalstar, Inc. (NYSEMKT:GSAT) issued a brief response to Kerrisdale Capital Market’s short thesis earlier this week, but yesterday evening Globalsat CEO Jay Monroe and Jarvinian managing director John Dooley... Read More