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There’s been a lot of speculation about what or what not Merrill Lynch (now owned by Bank of United States of America) [...]
This post originally appeared on Tradestreaming.com, the site for my new book and where I will be posting primarily about consumer financial. New Rules will begin to take more of a financial industry bent to it.
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So, top-dog personal finance website, Mint.com, just announced a further step into financial planning with some goals-based tools [...]
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eBay of investment advisors, kaChing announced today that they’re providing servicing of IRA plans. That means that someone with an IRA of at least $10k and the desire to have kaChing investment managers take a crack at managing his portfolio, can now do it.
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It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends [...]
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VOD for investors
Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners. It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text.
Trader You Tube? [...]
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Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad.
Let’s remember (from the article):
Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week
3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions)
30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app — so room for [...]
February 15, 2010 – 6:15 am
We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap.
As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced:
new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.)
made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies)
provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual Funds that price [...]
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February 7, 2010 – 8:33 am
Just doing some thinking about the growth and future of the ETF industry:
In my eyes, ETFs began as a second-generation of mutual funds with the following characteristics:
Passively managed: ETFs were passively managed (though that’s changing), building upon Jack Bogle’s success at Vanguard. Most research at the time clung to the Efficient Market Hypothesis and academics [...]
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