September 11, 2009 – 12:22 am
Summary
Regulators have their sights set on restructuring the market for leveraged, inverse(short) and commodity ETFs. Increased scrutiny for these index shorts and leveraged bets have the ETF industry running for cover and it’s already impacting existing shares in common ETFs tracking commodities and sectors, like Oil and Financials. Advisers commonly use these products for hedging [...]
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Also tagged broker, cftc, commodities, etf, financial advisors, financial reporting, finra, industry news, inverse, leverage, new products
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August 24, 2009 – 6:48 am
It’s a little to early to auger the demise of the investment bank research department. Yes, they’ve lost their prestige and their ability to move stocks like butter. Yes, independent, buy-side research firm Gerson Lehrman is rockin’. Yes, we’re even beginning to see the early stages of free, collaborative research take hold here and here.
But [...]
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Posted in Research, Stock market
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Also tagged asset allocation, bank, broker, economy, financial advisors, financial reporting, Goldman Sachs, industry news, investment research, trading
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I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this financial crisis was totally avoidable.
No, not the popping of the Greenspan debt bubble — that was inevitable — but the slamming of the stock market in its wake. This recession and destruction of financial firms was certainly probable – if not likely [...]
We’ve taken the bent on this blog that content sells advisory services. As competition for a shrinking asset base in the U.S. increases, creating custom content — ebooks, newsletters, etc. — can help you target your perfect customer with value-add from the beginning of the relationship. By providing value and differentiation from step 1, a [...]
On the heels of just a horrendous market and game-changing moves by the U.S. Government to appropriate invest salvage prop up large financial institutions, investors are left holding the bag. Equity prices are being driven as much by the outcome of government intervention as it is by long-term views of cash flow.
The rules of investing [...]
Today’s guest post comes from Bill Winterberg, CFP®, an operations and efficiency specialist to independent financial advisers. I thought Bill’s perspective important as we continue to explore how financial advisors can use web 2.0 technologies to build their businesses. Check out more of Bill’s good stuff at www.fppad.com and on Twitter at @BillWinderberg
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