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December 12, 2019
After three consecutive rate cuts, the Federal Reserve (Fed) decided to stay on the sidelines at their final gathering for 2019. While this result was widely expected, it also represented a stark turnaround from the December 2018 FOMC meeting when the policy makers made Santa’s naughty list and hiked the Fed Funds target for what amounted to the final time in that rate-hike cycle.
December 5, 2019
Should U.S. Treasury (UST) yields be this low, given the current investment landscape? It sure is an interesting question, don’t you think? That being said, whether or not you feel the UST 10-Year yield should be trading at its current level of around 1.70%, the old adage “Don’t fight the tape” comes to mind.
November 29, 2019
Last week’s “Behind the Markets” podcast featured a discussion with Nir Kaissar, founder of Unison Advisors. Unison provides portfolios to individuals and institutions that leverage academic work on the long-term performance of various investment factors. Kaissar was an early advocate for focusing on valuations to rotate between the various investment factors and asset classes.
November 21, 2019
The volatility in Treasury (UST) yields since Labor Day is a real-time example of what investors have been faced with recently regarding the direction of interest rates. While 2019 thus far has been, generally, a year of falling rates as compared to the 2018 experience.
November 14, 2019
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October 31, 2019
Once again, as widely expected, the Federal Reserve (Fed) voted to cut rates at its October FOMC meeting. This marks the Fed’s third consecutive quarter-point reduction and places the new federal funds target in the 1.50% to 1.75% range. The question that now comes to mind is whether the third time’s a charm.
October 24, 2019
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September 26, 2019
September 19, 2019
September 12, 2019
I previously wrote “Debunking the Myths of a Model Portfolio Approach,” exposing the difficulties of third-party due diligence as a myth. Let’s prove it by diving deeper into best practices for ETF model portfolio due diligence. Ask the right questions – Starting at the firm level, here are a few questions advisors should ask when evaluating model portfolio providers…
September 5, 2019
August 29, 2019
August 22, 2019
August 15, 2019
The entire German yield curve is negative. The U.S. 3-Month Treasury yield is at 2%, while the 10-Year yield currently sits close to 1.65%. Excluding U.S. debt with 20 years to maturity or more, U.S. short-term Treasuries now have the highest yield among all developed-nation debt.
August 8, 2019
In a week of big news, ranging from the Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting to additional Chinese tariffs to an employment report, we had two great podcasts with Professor Jeremy Siegel covering the major events with First Trust economist Brian Wesbury and Hanming Fang, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the nonprofit website VoxChina.org.
August 2, 2019
Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe and his ruling coalition won a very comfortable majority, but fell short of gaining the two-thirds supermajority required for fast-track constitutional reform, in Sunday’s Upper House election. In our view, this is good news for financial markets as “Team Abe” will now stay focused on economic policy to maintain a strong “feel-good” factor, rather than divert even more political capital (and parliamentary time) to preparing to revise the constitution.
July 25, 2019
July 18, 2019
I recently had the opportunity to interview Jesper Koll, a Senior Advisor to WisdomTree, on opportunities in Japan’s equity market for our “Behind the Markets” podcast. Koll believes Japan will be a source of surprise for both economic strength and corporate performance. Koll sees investors as underweight in Japan today as they were at the time of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster.
July 11, 2019
Over 85% of the current advisory population is not using external model portfolio providers. Why aren’t more advisors adopting ETF model portfolios in their practice?Perhaps it’s because of some of the myths surrounding them.
July 5, 2019
June 27, 2019
According to the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), this should tend to be the case over the long run. EMH says market prices reflect all available information, and any excess returns are simply a by-product of greater risk. Let’s run with this theory of higher risk being behind higher returns: How have riskier mid-caps done relative to less-risky mid-caps?
June 20, 2019
Although the money and bond markets appear to be “chomping at the bit” for a rate cut, expectations for such action at the just-completed FOMC meeting were low. Rather, the focus was on whether the policy makers would be making any changes to their Federal Funds’ Rate projections, or blue dots, for the remainder of this year and 2020.
June 13, 2019
To watch the money and bond markets of late, there is one development that stands out quite clearly: the Federal Reserve (Fed) has to cut interest rates. In fact, from the markets’ perspective, trade uncertainty plus economic weakness equals three rate cuts. Or quite simply: 1+1=3.
June 6, 2019
Ahead of the monthlong Indian elections, we held a “Behind the Markets” podcast preview with Gaurav Sinha, Associate Director of Modern AlphaTM and Asset Allocation at WisdomTree, and Srinivas Thiruvadanthai, director of research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center. Our discussion, which suggested Modi was going to stay in power with a 70% probability, was quite prescient.
May 30, 2019
On last week’s episode of the “Behind the Markets” podcast, I was joined by Alex Moazed, Founder and CEO of Applico, and Rafi Aviav, head of WisdomTree Europe’s Product Development team, for a discussion on platform businesses. Moazed described platforms as companies that do not own the means of production but rather the means of connection.
May 23, 2019
