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  • Difficult Quarter for Eurozone Stocks
     Author(s): Bill Witherell, Ph.D. | Fri June 29, 2018



    Eurozone equity markets have encountered significant headwinds in the second quarter of this year despite continued robust economic growth above estimated potential for most Eurozone economies.


  • Tax Free Munis Continue to Perform
     Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Thu June 28, 2018



    The tax-free bond market has continued to benefit from the drop in supply so far in 2018. To recap, the end of 2017 saw a bulge in supply as issuers tried to beat the tax-cut bill that Congress was still massaging through joint Senate/House committee work.


  • College and University Endowment Funds, Vanguard and the 60/40 Model
     Author(s): Gabriel Hament | Wed June 27, 2018



    At the conclusion of each fiscal year, Commonfund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) team up and publish a study analyzing the return and asset-allocation metrics across the country’s higher education endowment funds.


  • Market Volatility ETF Portfolio 2Q 2018 Review
     Author(s): Leo Chen, Ph.D. | Thu June 21, 2018



    While the U.S. stock market had a long overdue correction in February of 2018, the first quarter ended merely flat eventually. Continuing from the rebound since February low, the stock market kept rising strongly in the second quarter.


  • Quarterly Review: US ETF
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed June 20, 2018



    US stocks were buffeted by crosscurrents in the first half of 2018.


  • Kim, Trump, Xi & Saving Children
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Tue June 19, 2018



    We’ve collected a diverse set of quotes about Kim and Trump and Xi and the region as a whole. Of course, our vantage point for this assemblage is the United States, and our view is influenced by our financial, economic, and markets perspective.


  • John Mousseau, CFA® Becomes President of Cumberland Advisors as Firm Celebrates 45th Anniversary
     Author(s): Sharon Prizant | Sat June 16, 2018



    It is with pride that Cumberland Advisors celebrates its 45th Anniversary. June 18th marks 45 years since Cumberland Advisors officially opened its Vineland, NJ, office. Eight years after moving our principal office from Vineland to Sarasota, FL, we have 45 employees, and as of April 30th, 2018…


  • The Fed Decides
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Fri June 15, 2018



    As the June FOMC meeting approached, pundits and market participants increasingly expected the Committee to raise rates.


  • Thucydides--Part 4
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu June 14, 2018



    In the modern geopolitical world, money and payments are integrated in war (and trade wars) and politics. We see that intrigue in the daily news flow. Some 2400 years after the Peloponnesian War, we can still glean from antiquity lessons to guide us. The Thucydides Trap includes money as a tool…


  • Man Bites Dog by Bob Brusca
     Author(s): David R. Kotok & Bob Brusca, Chief Economist of FAO Economics | Wed June 13, 2018



    With all the Trumpian hullabaloo over trade, I want to share with readers a balanced, well-reasoned analysis of US trade issues penned by my good friend Bob Brusca, Chief Economist of FAO Economics. Bob makes it clear that while there are pros and cons to the US’s longtime propensity to run…


 

 

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