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In this week’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio, we interview Stephen Weiss, author of the newish book, Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors. You can also find a full transcript of the show here. Weiss had a long-spanning career on Wall Street (Oppenheimer, Salomon, Lehman) where he covered [...]
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Piggyback investing has made it so easy for investors to mimic the moves of the best and brightest — and most successful — asset managers. The hardest part is figuring out whose portfolio moves to clone. Today’s Bloomberg deals with the issue of super star, celebrity fund managers and a recent study into their performance. [...]
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To its credit, the financial industry has been playing around with different pricing structures — and mostly, for good reasons. 4 Ways Financial Advisors Get Paid To understand where we are in history, here’s a short overview of how financial pros get paid: 1. Brokerage: This transactional model meant brokers got paid when they bought [...]
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I’ve written about previously (here and here) about Bloomberg’s expansion and eventual dominance of financial media from news to data and consumer. The WSJ reports today that indeed, Bloomberg is forecasting a respectable 10% growth rate for 2010 and plans to add an additional 1300 employees. The revenue gains would come largely from a projected [...]
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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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