Author: Dian Chu

By Energy Burrito (Guest Post) This past week I’ve been doing some digging into energy efficiency, emissions, and the transportation sector, given the announcement by the European Union to include the aviation industry in...

By Doug Short (Guest Post) Last week I spoke at the Retirement Industry Income Association (RIIA) Fall Conference on the topic Dynamics of the New Normal. Several of the slides in my PowerPoint presentation featured subjects...

By Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) The third quarter was not kind to stock-oriented mutual funds. Out of the approximate 800 stock funds covered by our Quarterly Low-Load Mutual Fund Update newsletter, relatively few showed gains....

By EconMatters BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are among the highest risk regions to have armed conflicts based on the third annual Conflict Intensity Index, an annual study evaluating the intensity of armed...

By Bruce Krasting  (Guest Post) I have an account with one of the well know WS names. The guy I work with calls this morning. He says: “Across the entire‘Wealth Management’ side of our firm we...

By Prieur du Plessis  (Guest Post) A quick whizz around the moving averages of global stock markets makes for interesting reading. Specifically, I have considered the standard deviation from the 50- and 200-day moving...

By Doug Short  (Guest Post) The latest Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index(PCI), a measure of the economy based on diesel fuel consumption, is now available. The published report highlights the 1.0% decline in...

By Erik Oppers via iMFdirect  (Guest Post) What drives the investment decisions of investors with a longer time horizon? Our research found these investors generally do not look at differences in...