At my annual physical exam recently, the doctor took my vital signs, reviewed my medical records, and after reading my EKG results, said, “Well the computer says you’re having a heart attack.” But the computer was wrong.
Common tax-minimizing strategies are difficult or impossible to implement on the trading platforms that have boomed in popularity in the past year.
What is cyber risk and what can we do about it? Melody Koenig, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at FirsTrust, LLC explains how to be more aware of your personal cyber risk and ways for mitigation.
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Emerging market economies have been hit by pandemic-related lockdowns, capital outflows, reduced demand for exports, a commodity price shock, and the global disruption of supply chains. Policy makers have responded with aggressive approaches and new tools; signs that these programs are effective suggest that emerging market economies could be more resilient than their developed counterparts burdened with higher debt levels, aging demographics, and deflationary pressures. Yusko will discuss places where investors will not just survive, but thrive in a post-pandemic world — all roads lead to emerging markets when searching for alpha in the New Abnormal.
Investors shouldn't be obsessed with their portfolio's performance, but an annual evaluation is key to keeping you on track.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently said he sees asset bubbles everywhere in financial markets globally. And now, former Chairman Ben Bernanke sees policy errors making the next inevitable recession more problematic.
During the short nine days of trading from late January to February 8, the S&P 500 fell like a skydiver leaping out of a plane: fast and down. In a classic flight-to-quality response, investors pulled their parachutes, socking billions into the largest ETFs tracking the widely-watched Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Barclays Aggregate”). This time, though, it didn’t work.
