Menu Search
Alphaville

Passive Investing

Someone is wrong on the internet, government employee pensions and passive investing edition

  1. A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck
  2. The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation”
  3. These hedge fund numbers can't be right
  4. The Vomiting Camel has escaped from Bitcoin zoo
  5. Lies, damn lies, and charticles
  6. The world doesn't need more Elon Musks
  7. No, Facebook should not become a nonprofit
  8. Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain
  9. Immutable ledgers meet European data protection
  10. Amazon is not a bubble
  11. Japan's economic miracle
  12. Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn't like?
  13. Delaware should change its rules to let the light in
  14. Who needs the labels anyway?
  15. Baby Boomers want your family to finance a larger share of their retirement
  16. No, America would not benefit from authoritarian central planning
  17. No one needs to buy Tesla
  18. How to win a debate in the cult of meritocracy
  19. Steinhoff International and the case of Pepkor Global Sourcing
  20. Sorry Jack, Bitcoin will not become the global currency
Calpers

Area law professor is deeply confused about both public-employee pension funds and investing.

By: Matthew C Klein

The Woodford Hall of Contrarian Honour

Neil Woodford

The star fund manager turns contrarian as he enters his dark night of the soul.

By: FT Alphaville

Further reading

How a baccarat binge helped launder the world’s biggest cyberheist; how passive investing is now in danger of devouring capitalism; how credit raters ducked reform; an honest business news update; the Irish Farmers Journal weighs in on what you could buy instead of Neymar; other stuff.

By: David Keohane

Not your father’s market: Tech tantrum shows how US equities trading has changed

De-Faanged-line_chart-ft-web-themelarge-600x480_2048x1152

“When it’s time to head for the door, you better move fast.”

By: Robin Wigglesworth

Passive investing is worse than… the misuse of antibiotics

output-10

Area fund manager decries threat to his business.

By: Kadhim Shubber

Further reading

Jeff Gundlach appears at SALT as a hologram; the SEC might kill the quadruple-leveraged S&P 500 ETF; Darwin visits Wall St; can we still rely on collective wisdom; “To Woo Millennials, Financial Advisers Dress the Part”; unpleasant thoughts you had and the things you bought to stop having them; other stuff.

By: David Keohane

Now Bernstein is warning about passive *asset allocation* decisions, too

Screen Shot 2017-01-10 at 7.53.39 AM_2048x1152

A note that’s either an exercise in wishful thinking, or a warning that darker days are ahead for passive allocators. Perhaps both.

By: Alexandra Scaggs

You are on page 1

FT Alpha Tweets