IVA Research
A collection of 180 posts
A Most Challenging Year
2022 MARKET REVIEW: For conservative investors, 2022 was as difficult as 2008's Global Financial Crisis.
Just Keep Going
2023 OUTLOOK: I'm on recession watch but still expect stocks to gain ground.
Fleeting Yields
Cash has been king this year. And yields on money markets are tempting but be aware that the current spike in municipal money market yields is likely to prove fleeting. Municipal Money Market’s (VMSXX) yield has more than doubled in December—rising from 1.72% to 3.60% (as
Heating Up?
Newton’s first law says that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. [Emphasis added.] This is the idea behind momentum investing and our Hot Hands
Di-Worse-ified Equity
Is anything as painful as a bad mutual fund that compounds its mediocrity by paying out large capital gains distributions? Vanguard released its final estimates for the capital gains it expects its funds to pay this month, and one of the biggest is coming from one of Vanguard’s worst