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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

For passive investing, Blackrock and Vanguard are able to get costs very low due to their scale and skill in replicating a benchmark index. Robo-advisors such as Wealthfront and Betterment charge fees based on money managed – the robo-advisors automatically rebalance portfolios which are constructed with low fee ETFs.

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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bubble Meltdown; Hype or Reality?

MishTalk

Singapore’s booming finance and real estate-focused economy has earned it the moniker “The Switzerland of Asia”, and finance professionals from all over the world are flocking to work there to take refuge from the hard-hit financial sectors in their home countries. Singapore’s unemployment rate is a mere 1.8

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Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages

Harvard Business

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. Twenty years ago, BlackRock and Vanguard were only very rarely among the top ten shareholders of any firm.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

The drop in construction spending is a necessary correction of previous overinvestment and is unlikely to be entirely reversed. They encapsulate the self-reinforcing interactions between perceptions of value and risk, risk-taking and financing constraints which translate into financial booms and busts.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.