Vanguard’s Best Performing ETFs
Here's a shocker, and a stomach churner for all those who abandoned bonds completely for what were believed to be the greener pastures of the stock market....
This Mutual Fund is a Ticking Time Bomb
We are more than seven years into an economic expansion, but short-term interest rates are just a fraction of a point higher than they...
Sorry, The Game is O-V-E-R for these 2 Mutual Funds
The game is over for the Putnam Capital Spectrum and Equity Spectrum funds. Sorry to be so harsh. But that’s simply the way I...
“We Are in the First Innings of a Washout in Hedge Funds”
“There is no doubt that we are in the first innings of a washout in hedge funds,” said Dan Loeb of Third Point LLC...
The Real POP in Investment Returns, Part II
You knew this was coming. Back in February 2010 I wrote to you about Putnam Investments’ full-page colored ad in the WSJ touting their...
Vanguard GNMA Outlook 2016
With the Fed hiking short-term interest rates for the first time in almost a decade in December, and signaling to investors that additional interest...
Vanguard GNMA: Slow and Steady
Slow and steady wins the race.
Beware Bio-tech risk in ETFs
Barrons’s had a nice piece over the weekend on the hidden exposures that may be lurking in your small-cap fund. Bio-tech stocks have been...
Vanguard GNMA Outlook 2015 Part II
In Part I of this series I explained the risks that investors are compensated for when they invest in Ginnie Mae mortgage backed securities....
Vanguard GNMA Outlook 2015
What is the outlook for mortgage backed securities and in particular GNMA Mortgage Backed Securities?