Exchange traded funds (ETFs), the bricks of investing, help the likes of Ray Dalio build structurally sound investment portfolios which outperform the indexes or achieve alpha returns in all market conditions. So then what are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)? ETFs are a basket of securities traded on the exchange, like stocks. ETFs can be dedicated …
Engineered financial crisis
We could be on the cusp of an engineered financial crisis. The free market mechanism which facilitated an equilibrium price, price discovery, has been hijacked by the central bank’s planned central pricing policy. The world’s central banks sit in the cockpit and determine the trajectory of asset prices through their unprecedented monetary easing policy. As …
Monetary policy lunacy
Doubling down on monetary policy lunacy could be the central bank’s next move, but it will be to no avail, as Darren Winters explains. Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP) has had no positive impact on economic activity in Japan and Europe. The BoJ’s has kept it’s key short term interest rates near a record low …
Big pharma moves into Cannabis
Big pharma moves into Cannabis. As Darren Winters explains, the global pharmaceutical industry, known as Big Pharma, is now seriously eyeing the cannabis market as evidence of cannabis increases. It is anticipated that as big pharma moves into cannabis it will transform the cannabis industry The cannabis business has been heavily stigmatized. So big pharma …