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The Economy Rests On Consumers Fragile Shoulders

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Consumption growth is, in a sense, a mile wide and an inch deep.

Activists Boost Innovation As Well As Share Prices

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A new working paper finds benefits to innovation at firms which get picked on by hedge fund activists.

Be Wary If Your Mutual Fund Manager Also Runs Hedge Funds

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The concern is that those who manage both products will be tempted to favor their higher-paying hedge fund clients.

The Happy Marriage Of Activist And Passive Investors

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Both activist and passive investments are on the rise.

The Advantage Of Taking More Risk As You Age

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Your lifecycle fund with its tapering equity allocation may be injurious to your wealth.

Yen's Rise May Mark Limit For Monetary Policy

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The sudden strength of the Japanese yen shows we may be reaching the limits of what monetary policy can accomplish.

Check Your Fund Manager's Privilege

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Two recent studies highlight that mutual fund managers from less affluent backgrounds outperform.

Looking For A Hot Stock? Try Centenarians

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Investors can easily fall into the trap of over-weighting new and buzzy companies and sectors.

This Election Will Be Good For Labor, Bad For Capital

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The 2016 U.S. presidential election is a circus which will produce an outcome and policies that will tend to fatten labor’s share of the economy while reducing that of capital.

Central Banking, Paranoid Style

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The National Bank of Hungary has decided to arm itself with 112 handguns and 200,000 bullets.

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