Animal Spirits are Back
Do you want to buy some garbage? There’s a growing number of investment products that some within the industry consider to be garbage, but they want to market them to investors like you anyways.
Leveraged exchange traded products that double or triple the daily return (or its inverse) of a “hot stock” or the latest meme coin can sound like ways to strike it rich, but buyer beware.
Before you get tempted to buy one of these products, please make sure you understand the risks associated with them, which we think deserve a warning label.
Why Diversify? Part 2
In our last blog post we looked at how adding bonds to a portfolio of stocks can have an outsized impact on the volatility of the portfolio as compared to the reduction in return. What can be less intuitive is that sometimes adding a riskier asset can also have positive impacts on the risk-reward characteristics of a portfolio. Read on for an example.
