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Hey, Merrill, What Happened To Best Interests Of Clients?

Let’s travel back in time to 2016.  The Department of Labor rolls out the fiduciary rule.  Firms providing retirement advice must act in the best interests of clients.  Wall St firms scramble.  The days of pushing products and soaking clients with commissions are over. Merrill Lynch rushes to act.  They ban commissions on IRAs.  Their [...]

Comcast vs. Netflix – Why Stock Prices Are A Proxy For How We Feel About The Future

Channeling his inner Benjamin Graham (in the ST markets are a voting machine tallying popularity - in the LT markets are a weighing machine assessing substance) Josh Brown wrote this fantastic piece about why stock prices are a proxy about our beliefs about the future. By definition hope/faith (belief in the absence of evidence) is [...]

You Don’t Own Enough Stocks

Frequent readers of the Apollo blog know of our, um, “love” for Big Media and the content-for-the-sake-of-content weapons-grade BS it spews. Given the importance of being fair we’ll give credit where due.  Here’s an article actually worth reading: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-you-probably-have-less-money-invested-in-stocks-than-you-should-2018-05-23 For every Paleo diet, juice cleanse and the like there’s one tried and true way to [...]

Vanguard Then and Now

Oh how times have changed. Vanguard, the 800-pound gorilla of the mutual fund industry, is rapidly approaching its 50th birthday. We thought it would be interesting to see how the firm has grown through the years: At the beginning Vanguard managed $1.5 billion in assets. Today that number has ballooned to $4.5 trillion. That's 3x [...]

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