EFT Fee War
An interview on the web site indexuniverse.com with author Larry Swedroe, a champion of passive investment strategies, discusses the fee war waging among the major ETF providers. The interview is
December 11, 2012
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Why Pay for Passive – Part Two
In Part Two, we return to our friends at Beat the Market Investors (‘BTMI’), the former active money manager of FSIA-client ‘Jack’. It was an associate at BTMI who posed
July 2, 2012
Why Pay for Passive? The Better Question is…Why Pay for Active? – Part One
A new client of Fifth Set Investment Advisors (I’ll call him Jack) was in the process of informing his prior firm (I’ll call them Beat the Market Investments, ‘BTMI’) that
May 25, 2012
A(nother) Lesson for Stock Pickers
There’s much to reflect on following the announcement from J.P. Morgan that it lost $2 billion on a hedging strategy gone bad; “retiring” top executives, Jamie Dimon’s crow eating and
May 14, 2012
Is your mutual fund a box of Corn Flakes?
Among the myriad of conflicts of interest shrouded by the brokerage industry are payments made by mutual fund companies to brokerage firms in exchange for accessing the brokerage firms’ mutual
April 4, 2012
Why bother with hedge funds?
Why do people bother to invest in hedge funds? Other than a lack of transparency, excessive fees, tax inefficiency, illiquidity, and underperformance, I suppose they’re OK. They do make for
April 2, 2012
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