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[ad_1] Posted November 28, 2023 by Joshua M Brown The new online home of Ritholtz Wealth Management has (finally) arrived! It’s ironic that we’re a firm with ten content creators and all these big blogs but we’ve never really paid much attention to what our corporate site looks like or […]

[ad_1] Posted November 28, 2023 by Nicole Samoroukova Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Year End Rally – Choose your weapon – tech almost always […]

[ad_1] Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final post I will be publishing at The Reformed Broker. After today the site will be inactive, forever. I began this blog in November 2008 without any idea where it would take me. I had a negative net worth, was working at a […]

[ad_1] This article is based in part on material drawn from “The Dawn of a New Active Equity Era” by C. Thomas Howard and Return of the Active Manager by C. Thomas Howard and Jason Voss, CFA. In our 2019 book Return of the Active Manager, we declared that active […]

[ad_1] Introduction London ranks ninth on the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble index for residential properties. Like in many other countries, property prices in the United Kingdom reached an all-time high in 2020. A global pandemic with sudden mass unemployment should have forced UK citizens to sell their homes, but […]

[ad_1] The GameStop story returned short-sellers to the front pages of the global financial press. The Reddit crowd’s “Main Street Takes Revenge on Wall Street” narrative cast these short sellers as the villains of the financial markets. It also created enough consensus buying pressure to squeeze their positions into margin […]

[ad_1] I’m the most important person in behavioral finance, because most of the behavioral finance is just the criticism of efficient markets. So, without me what do they got? Eugene Fama Gene has it all wrong. If it were not for Behavioral Finance, he and French would have had nothing […]

[ad_1] The following analysis is based on “Tax-Smart Portfolio Valuation and Performance Measurement,” Andrew Kalotay’s forthcoming article in the Journal of Portfolio Management, and Kalotay’s “Tax-Efficient Trading of Municipal Bonds,” from the Financial Analysts Journal. Say you have a portfolio composed of two tax-exempt municipal bonds. How do you determine […]

[ad_1] Since the Federal Reserve’s historic rate hiking campaign and the inversion of the yield curve in late 2022, we have been waiting for an economic downturn. We have yet to see one, and this has confounded economists everywhere. The lingering effects from the COVID pandemic have certainly made this […]

[ad_1] Special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have surpassed traditional initial public offerings (IPOs) in volume this year and some have hailed them as a new asset class that all investors should consider adding to their portfolios. For what purpose? Supposedly they generate superior returns and may also offer diversification benefits relative […]