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It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends — today’s, [...]
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So much progress has been made in online finance, but man, we still have so much more to do! While the amount of investing information has exploded online, there are still major gaps in many of the top sites that seem like no-brainers to fix. The following list — submitted to me over the past [...]
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As reported yesterday, Seeking Alpha, the largest aggregator of financial content from blogs, asset managers and investment newsletters, raised another round of funding yesterday. The raise of $7 million represents a B round financing from existing investors, Accel and Benchmark, along with new investor DAG. There’s been speculation about what Seeking Alpha’s going to do [...]
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The competition for assets in brokerage and investment advisory hasn’t been lost on prime brokers. In New Kids on the Prime-Brokerage Block on the WSJ, reporter Jenny Strasburg does a good job describing how new players in prime brokerage are challenging the old guard. Strasburg specifically cites 4 newish entrants into the prime-brokerage pool: Cantor [...]
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Hat tip to Felix Salmon who draws our attention to the news that Portfolio.com has reemerged from Conde Nast purgatory by shifting ownership to American City Business Journals Inc.’s bizjournals, another division of Advance Publications. In its new form, the site will: In addition to newly created content, Portfolio.com will share content with other Condé [...]
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Because it has broader appeal, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the demand side of financial social media. Investors can use tools like following their favorite investors portfolio moves on Covestor or crowdsource ideas on Piqqem or use AlphaClone to create the same portfolio Warren Buffett has. There are other great [...]
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If you elect to hold yourself out as a fiduciary, do you have to justify the use Why of mutual funds over index ETFs, which many point to as having a higher likelihood of outperforming a majority of funds net of fees and expenses? (Advice America) If brokers are fiduciaries but can continue to be compensated on [...]
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Behavioral Finance in an emerging field. We’ve practically done away with viewing an investor as a purely rational being (sorry, Kant) and now look at investors as normal people driven by emotions. These emotions totally influence our behavior as it relates to investing (loss aversion, et al) and therefore completely impacts the performance of our [...]
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