All approaches to Risk-Managed Investing (RMI) have a cost of some sort.
This cost typically presents itself as a drag on performance during periods when, in retrospect, downside protection isn’t needed. We sought to develop an objective way of measuring how high this cost could be before it exhausts the benefits of RMI. Read more >>
4. Value Stocks in Various Periods
Value is an engrained investment methodology loyally followed by many with varied methods of measurement (e.g. P/B, P/E, P/Cf). Simply, value represents the undervalued stocks in a given universe and is historically recognized as having a slice of the investment marketplace. Growth is value’s counterpart and in most cases they do not overlap. Read more >>
5. Commentary: Corporate Profits Plunge in Most Recent GDP Report
In the most recent Gross Domestic Report (GDP) report, corporate profits plunged.
The overall decline in profits was $153 billion in Q4, although some of this drop was due to an $83 billion settlement that BP had with the government over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Read more >>
Meet Our ETF Strategist Partners:
- Astor Investment Management
- Beaumont Capital Management
- Clark Capital Management Group
- CLS Investments
- Confluence Investment Management
- Efficient Market Advisors
- Giralda Advisors
- Hillswick Asset Management
- Horizon Investments
- Innealta Capital
- Lunt Capital Management
- Main Management
- Newfound Research
- Nottingham Advisors
- Pinnacle Advisory Group
- RiverFront Investment Group
- Stadion Money Management
- Stringer Asset Management
- Sage Advisory
- Swan Global Investments
- TOPS/Valmark Advisers, Inc.