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Investment Outlook Q4 2017
Notz Stucki has just released its investment outlook for the last quarter of 2017. Contrary to predictions at the start of the year, when it was expected that they would have to contend with rising interest rates, markets have been strong this year. Moreover one of the main hopes on…
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Chart of the Month – The rise of passives
The rise of passives How the role of ETFs has evolved in an increasingly efficient market Not a month goes by without an article in the press criticizing the high fee structures of both hedge funds and traditional long only funds and their underperformance in comparison to their benchmark indices. …
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Investment Outlook Q3 2017
Notz Stucki has just released its investment outlook for the third quarter of 2017. “The reduction of interest rates below their natural levels has poisoned the river at its source, and nobody knows whether the water is fit to drink.” Jonathan Ruffer The markets performed well in the second quarter…
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Portfolio managers beware: factor based ETFs and how they can be helpful
Breaking down your broad universe of food groups into their more basic elements and nutrients is now part of our daily habits. Checking labels for sugar, fat, carbs and protein content isn’t just the remit of Californian health freaks but something that is part of every shopper’s habit nowadays. Although…
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Perception vs. Reality: are high yield ETFs riskier than similar funds?
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, wrote a best-selling book entitled “Thinking, Fast and Slow”. The central thesis of the book is that human beings have two modes of thought: System 1: Fast, instinctive and emotional; System 2: Slow, deliberative and logical. We can say that…
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