That’s right, an owner of a crystal ball would have been able to multiply his money 10-fold in 2011 alone! For further comparison, in 1932, the owner of the same ball would have been able to multiply his money … 590 times!

A BAML analyst anticipates that about 75% of household debt is in fixed-rate products and hence, a gradual Fed hiking cycle shouldn’t shock the household sector.

There are 2 packages that make data manipulation in R fun. These are dplyr and data.table. Both packages have their strengths. While dplyr is more elegant and resembles natural language, data.table is succinct and we can do a lot with data.table in just a single line. Further, data.

Can you hear it?  That’s the clock ticking on your 100-day plan period. Achieving a profitable portfolio exit is challenging, but private equity firms have several ways to help their emerging and established portfolio companies reduce costs, mitigate risk and increase operational efficiencies.

13F summary – stay tuned for a lot more analysis and coverage this is just the raw data for now. As always, be extremely careful when using 13F data whether for clone investing or narratives for many reasons we have explained in the past.

Only the two components that have ex-dates in May 2016 will contribute to the June UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN (NYSEARCA: MORL) 2016 dividend.

Is gold your best performing asset for the next five years? Is it high growth technology stocks? Energy stocks? Or maybe biotech shares? How about French collectable postage stamps or vintage racing cars?

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