September 2013

Frequency of Rebalancing: Why it matters (and why it doesn’t)

In a wide-ranging article about fundamentally-weighted indexes, Chris Brightman of Research Affiliates gets into some of the additional ways that a portfolio can be optimized. One of those optimization tools is being mindful about how frequently you’re rebalancing. Chris makes the important point that adjusting your frequency of rebalancing really won’t have much of an…

The Committee to Blow Up the World

Boehner is out rattling his saber this morning. No need for a liveblog, it’s just more of the same. As Zeke Miller at TIME explains, he really only has three options to put this issue to bed in time for the aversion of another catastrophe a la 2011. First, he can do the honorable thing…