Our esteemed panel of finance bloggers weigh in today and what they have learned in the ten years since the great financial crisis. https://t.co/DFePg9xsxC image: https://t.co/BvOuXmJ5ka pic.twitter.com/tY8jVnAIMh — Tadas Viskanta (@abnormalreturns) April 3, 2018 Continuing his annual Finance Blogger Wisdom series, Tadas Viskanta of Absolute Returns asks: Ten years have passed since the onset of...Read More

The following is an excerpt from Best Stocks 2018: Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Is Still Strong, originally published on InvestorPlace. I can’t say I’m happy to be finishing the first quarter in last place in InvestorPlace’s Best Stocks for 2018 contest. But I’ve been here before. In the 2016 contest, I was dead last by the end of the first quarter,...Read More

Tadas Viskanta, editor of the excellent finanical blog Abnormal Returns, asked a group of financial bloggers the following question: Assume you are advising a pension fund, endowment or foundation. What is a reasonable long-term expectation for real returns for a well-diversified portfolio? The answered varied, but it seems like the consensus was somewhere in the...Read More

Rumors are circling that Walmart (WMT) might be acquiring Humana (HUM) or, at the very least, deepening its partnership with the health insurer. I have my own thoughts on the matter. As I shared with Reuters’ Nandita Bose, “The end goal here is to get more people in their stores, get them to buy drugs...Read More

The following is an excerpt from Best ETFs for 2018: iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF Is Still in the Race. If there is a dominant theme in the Best ETFs for 2018 contest, it would seem to be “Go America!” and specifically “Go American tech!” The Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) is leading the pack, up 7%, and four...Read More