by Springwater Wealth | Oct 27, 2014 | Investment Management, Services, Wealth Management
University of Chicago Booth Professor and Nobel prize winning economist Eugene Fama talks about the evolution of modern finance. Â Click here to watch the short, three minute video.
by Springwater Wealth | Sep 24, 2014 | Investment Management, Services, Wealth Management
Last week, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest pension fund in the US, announced that it would pull all $4 billion from its hedge fund investment program of 24 hedge funds and six hedge “fund-of-funds”. CalPERS was one of...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 28, 2014 | Investment Management, Wealth Management
The financial services industry spends millions of marketing dollars every year trying to convince investors that the key to financial success is picking the right stocks (or mutual fund) or correctly timing the market. Yet study after study over the past four decades...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 27, 2014 | Investment Management, Services, Wealth Management
In trying to understand the concept of active management, and its potential for success, let’s begin with the question: What is a stock? A stock is simply an ownership share in a company. Each share of stock in a company represents a part ownership for the...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 26, 2014 | Investment Management, Services, Wealth Management
In an August 19, 2014 article on the CBS MoneyWatch website, author Larry Swedroe tackles the question of whether active management can generate superior results to index or asset class-oriented strategies in less developed market segments, like emerging markets...