Looking to conduct a review of your investments? Below is a five-point end-of-the-year housekeeping checklist. Suitability. When it comes to the world of investments, the most common types of assets are stocks and bonds—but they aren’t the only ones. There are alternatives like real estate and [...]
Wall Street’s Latest Innovation: ‘Buffer’ Funds
An ancient financial concept is gaining newfound popularity. In his book Politics, Aristotle related a story about a fellow philosopher named Thales, who lived about 2,600 years ago. One winter, Thales made a prediction about the coming olive harvest. He felt that it was going to be a strong [...]
Lessons From This Year’s Nobel Winners
The neighboring towns of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico figure prominently in the work of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, who, together with a colleague, won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. In their book Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson explain that these two border towns are [...]
Another Solution for an Expensive Market
For years, there’s been growing concern about the top-heavy nature of the U.S. market. Today, just 10 stocks account for 35% of the total value of the S&P 500. And while the largest technology stocks—dubbed the Magnificent Seven—have done exceedingly well in recent years, their extreme [...]
Better to Stay Home?
Is it worth owning international stocks? There is far from universal agreement. The traditional argument for diversifying outside the U.S. is straightforward: diversification—since domestic and international stocks don’t move in lockstep, and sometimes diverge significantly. At the same time, [...]
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