Kamakura Corporation reported Monday that the Kamakura troubled company index ended September at 9.77%, an increase of 0.27% from the prior month. The index reflects the percentage of the Kamakura 38,000 public firm universe that has a default probability over 1.00%.

Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives. My coaching clients tell me they are losing wealthy clients to robo-advisors. They want advice on how to better articulate their value proposition.

In 2011, Scott’s Investments began tracking a momentum portfolio which ranks a basket of ETFs based on price momentum and volatility. In 2014, I also introduced a pure momentum system, which ranks the same basket of ETFs based solely on 6-month price momentum.

As more and more macro releases point to another lackluster quarter for the US economy, stretching its mediocre recovery cycle even more, equity markets (NYSEARCA:SPY) find new reasons to cheer.

A significant chunk of the data that we encounter on a daily basis is available in an unstructured, free text format. Hence, the ability to glean useful bits of information from this unstructured pile can be quite valuable.

Game developers are harnessing cutting-edge processors and software to create irresistibly immersive and challenging worlds.

I’m an indie iOS developer who sells an accounting app called Taxnote. Users of this app have been requesting the cloud sync feature for a long time. So, I started using Parse, which until last year was the best tool for mobile developers who didn’t want to handle server side programming.

Since my last update and considering September a volatile month, I was counting on increasing my income allocation. I added only small positions this month and still sitting on cash to deploy at a later date.

The Grub Street Diet debuted ten years ago, and to celebrate, we’ve asked some favorite subjects to once again chronicle everything they eat and drink.

col_number() [n], finds the first number in the field. A number is defined as a sequence of -, “0-9”, decimal_mark and grouping_mark. This is useful for currencies and percentages. To recognise these columns, readr inspects the first 1000 rows of your dataset.