The Prediction Paradox
In the summary description of the book The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t, written by political forecaster, Nate Silver, there is a
March 18, 2013
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What’s In a Name? Advice From a Brand Name Firm May Not Be Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be
Many investors continue to believe they can feel secure that their finances are managed by a “brand name” firm such as J.P. Morgan. Underlying this sense of security is a
March 4, 2013
Perception and Reality: How different they can be
With the plethora of unwelcome news that generated the 2012 headlines, one might have expected equity markets to have been a bad place to be last year. But as so
January 7, 2013
EFT Fee War
An interview on the web site indexuniverse.com with author Larry Swedroe, a champion of passive investment strategies, discusses the fee war waging among the major ETF providers. The interview is
December 11, 2012
Why Pay for Passive – Part Two
In Part Two, we return to our friends at Beat the Market Investors (‘BTMI’), the former active money manager of FSIA-client ‘Jack’. It was an associate at BTMI who posed
July 2, 2012
Why Pay for Passive? The Better Question is…Why Pay for Active? – Part One
A new client of Fifth Set Investment Advisors (I’ll call him Jack) was in the process of informing his prior firm (I’ll call them Beat the Market Investments, ‘BTMI’) that
May 25, 2012
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