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What You Need to Know About the Fed’s Move to Raise Interest Rates

Date14 Dec 2015

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Brian Haywood So the Fed has finally decided to raise interest rates, ending months of rampant speculation. Director of Fixed Income Brian Haywood covers the why, what and how of the Fed’s rate hike, plus what you should do about it. Short answer? Nothing. What You Need to Know About the Fed’s Move to Raise...

Getting Comfortable With Change

Date07 Dec 2015

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Some of us really like the status quo. Even when we have a better alternative, many of us are content to keep on doing what we’re doing. I think about this every time my wife and I swap cars. Depending on who is running what errands that day, we’ll switch between our big car and...

Genes, Experience Affect Choices

Date07 Dec 2015

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Are you a value investor or a growth investor? Could your preference be influenced by a biological predisposition partially ingrained from birth? Is it possible that your choice of investment could be explained by your personal experiences, both early on and later in life? The field of behavioral finance advances psychology-based theories to explain investor...

A Game You Shouldn’t Play

Date07 Dec 2015

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It seems like almost every week a new study appears to debunk the myth of active management. This week was no exception. Robin Powell, a U.K.-based journalist and financial blogger, discussed a recent study that covered 561 U.K.-based stock funds between 1998 and 2008. The study’s findings were consistent with similar research done on funds...

If You Don’t Like The Market Today, Just Wait Until Tomorrow

Date07 Dec 2015

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In my hometown of Baltimore, there’s an oft-heard saying that seems especially applicable when, like now, the seasons are changing: “If you don’t like the weather today, just wait until tomorrow.” For whatever meteorological reason, it’s not uncommon for an absolutely miserable Monday to turn into a gorgeous Tuesday. Temperatures have been known to swing...

Foxes More Right Than Hedgehogs

Date07 Dec 2015

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Philip Tetlock, who teaches psychology, business and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, is also the author of “Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?” The book, which was published in 2006, discusses the findings of his 20-year study, the first scientific study on the ability of experts from...

A Classic Factor Model Improves

Date07 Dec 2015

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There has been a great deal of focus by the academic community in recent years on fine-tuning the various factor models used to explain the differences in returns of diversified portfolios. Marie Lambert, Boris Fays and Georges Hubner contribute to the literature with their 2015 paper, “Size and Value Matter, But Not the Way You...

Is Stock Picking Back?

Date07 Dec 2015

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Is it time for stock-pickers to make a comeback? That was the topic of discussion during a recent Trading Nation segment in which CNBC’s Brian Sullivan interviewed Stacey Gilbert of Susquehanna, and Phillip Streible of RJO Futures. Gilbert and Streible made the case that because the correlations (a measure of the strength of the linear...

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