Evan
Simonoff is editor-in-chief and editorial director of Financial Advisor
magazine, as well as editorial director of Private Wealth magazine. He
has spent more than 15 years as an editor and reporter covering the
financial services industry. Evan is a widely recognized expert on
personal finance and investments.
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Evan Simonoff
The bull market that gets no respect could start claiming some big RIAs as victims if it stays on course.
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Evan Simonoff
Historians have every right to examine the personal lives of famous economists, but Niall Ferguson fails to consider historical context when he singles out John Maynard Keynes.
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When one meets Ron Paul, two characteristics are immediately evident. The first is that he is a gentleman. The second is that he is a skilled politician, however unorthodox he may be.
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When DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach recommended buying Japanese equities earlier this year, he was called an idiot. He expected Japan's Nikkei stock index to rise to 13,000 in yen by year-end 2013...
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Evan Simonoff
I’ve always admired Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, so it was amusing to see him on CNBC earlier this week reiterating his conviction that buy-and-hold will work even though it is entirely possible...
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Evan Simonoff
Conventional wisdom holds that commodities and commodity stocks typically outperform the rest of the pack in the late stages of a bull market...
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Evan Simonoff
Advisor have long complained that one has to meet higher standards to become a hairdresser than to be a financial planner...
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Evan Simonoff
In only seven years, all of America will look exactly like Florida does today, at least on the age spectrum.
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Evan Simonoff
If mean reversion is truly an immutable law of investing, then investors might want to consider shorting the S&P 500 and going long Japan’s Nikkei index, DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach remarked...
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Evan Simonoff
"Clean coal," according to GMO’s Jeremy Grantham, is a big lie worthy of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels...
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Evan Simonoff
Discount brokerage pioneer Chuck Schwab and KKR co-founder George
Roberts voiced frustration with President Obama's suddenly strident
post-election tone but indicated they thought the U.S...
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Judging from Wednesday's 312-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial
Average, the equity market could be replacing the bond market as the new
"vigilantes" who try to drive some sense into...
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Evan Simonoff
This energy- and agriculture-rich region characterized by low tax rates
and debt levels is poised to grow at a much faster rate than other parts
of the country where tax rates and debt levels are...
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Evan Simonoff
Now the regulators fine them! I never thought I'd write a piece
criticizing regulators for belatedly piling on the big banks and fining
them half a decade after the financial crisis in which...
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Evan Simonoff
Intrade makes the odds of a President Romney 26 percent, almost the same as the odds for a Speaker Pelosi, 28 percent. Yikes!
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