Page 2 - Cap Leading News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

By Matthew Waterman, Director, New Age Alpha While the Kessler Syndrome, or Kessler Effect, isn’t spoken of widely in social circles, its potential impact on everyone’s day-to-day lives is nearly incalculable. Imagine a world without cell phones, GPS or anything else reliant on satellite technology and one starts to understand the implications. According to the Kessler Syndrome, however, that is a very real possibility. The general concept involves the ever-accumulating amounts of junk orbiting the earth and, with it, the also increasing probability of a cataclysmic collision. Humans, unw...

Was Q1 only the start of herd mentality in the market? By Julian Koski, CIO at New Age Alpha In his 2004 bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki famously provides evidence that when acting independently and in their own self-interest, the actions of individual members of a crowd result in an efficient outcome. Following this logic, if investors act independently in their pursuit of excess returns, the market will be efficient. Of course, the title of Surowiecki’s book is a nod to the classic tome by Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (emphasi...

New Age Alpha Launches First US Large-Cap Equity Avoider ETFs, AVDR and AVDG New Age Alpha Launches First US Large-Cap Equity Avoider ETFs, AVDR and AVDG New Age Alpha, an asset management company that provides the global investment community with ETFs, indexes, SMAs, data and tools, announces two Avoider ETFs, AVDR US LargeCap Leading ETF (Ticker: AVDR) and AVDR US LargeCap ESG ETF (Ticker: AVDG). The alpha-seeking ETFs aim to provide an innovative source of alpha and an uncorrelated source of return by avoiding the losers “ stocks we believe to be overpriced. Tracking the New Age Alpha...