Lessons From the Oracle Plunge
What a day Oracle (ORCL) had Wednesday. Here was a seemingly bullet-proof company, with a great CEO (unless you ask his competitors), continuously growing internally and with insatiable appetite for acquiring competitors — and the stock was hammered on a wide earnings miss. Before this occurred, Oracle probably appeared to be an airtight investment. After all, what else could an investor want in a stock? In my opinion, however — …
Barrons ETF Expert Portfolios-Not much in the way of innovative thinking. By Roger Rusbaum
One of the features in this week’s Barron’s included an interview with three investment advisors who were billed as ETF experts using all-ETF portfolios for clients. Obviously I have no idea where Barron’s found these guys but the conversation read like something you could have read four years ago at IndexUniverse (that is a compliment to IndexUniverse and a shot at the Barron’s article). Each interviewee provided specifics of the …