BY OLIVIER GARRET

Investing has been all about growth over the past year. Investors are obsessed with the ‘G’ word.

In contrast, the art of uncovering value has been largely forgotten. Value stocks are massively out of favor. Concepts such as “margin of safety” and “book value” are being…

BY OLIVIER GARRET

The growth of ETFs since the Global Financial Crisis has been staggering.

Total ETF assets under management is now approaching US $5 trillion, a 400% increase from the $1 trillion held in 2009.

Investors now have access to over 7,000 ETF/ETP products. To put…

BY OLIVIER GARRET

A decade after the Global Financial Crisis, investors seem to have forgotten about risk.

The amount of money that has flowed into S&P 500 ETFs in recent years concerns me. With little regard for valuation, investors just continue to pump capital into ETFs that track the…

BY JARED DILLIAN

Nobody has a better insight into the future prospects of a company than its top-tier employees.

Executives will always boast about their businesses, but it’s what they do with their own money that really matters.

I’m talking about insider trading.

Not the illegal kind, but…

BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN

From a geographic standpoint, the Middle East and North Africa region extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Indian Ocean in the east, and from Turkey in the north to Yemen in the south.

The bulk of the region is situated…

BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN

From a purely geographic viewpoint, what makes South America stand out as a distinct region is that the continent resembles a large island.

Massive oceans physically separate the continent from other regions in the world by great distances. Mexico, Central America, and the…

BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN

The European Peninsula extends from Portugal and Britain in the west to Russia in the east. It stretches between the Mediterranean and Black seas in the south to the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

Access to rivers, the Mediterranean, and the North Atlantic has allowed…

BY JAKE WEBER

Cryptocurrencies have surely been the best-performing asset class of 2017.

The crown jewel of the crypto world Bitcoin has run up over 604% year to date. But that pales in comparison to Ethereum’s 3,562% gain this year.

Naturally, these sorts of monstrous returns in such a…

BY JAKE WEBER

The ETF market has experienced astounding growth over the last decade. There are now 5,000 ETFs traded globally with over $3.5 trillion in assets, a more than threefold increase since 2007.

The latest data from ETF.com shows a record…

BY STEPHEN MCBRIDE

While all seems calm in the markets, with stocks continuing to hit all-time highs, an interesting trend has emerged underneath the surface.

Combing through the latest Commitments of Traders report from the CFTC, we found that commercial traders (“smart money”) have a record…