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Franklin Templeton, today announced that it will acquire O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC , a leading quantitative asset management firm.

ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL BEFORE MAKING ANY INVESTMENT DECISION August 3, 2021 | US Markets Statll Near End of July as Global Markets Retreat – Are We Ready for an August Surprise? Chris Vermeulen Chris Vermeulen has been involved in the markets since 1997 and is the founder of TheTechnicalTraders.com. He is an internationally recognized technical analyst, trader, and author of the book: Technical Trading Mastery. Chris has developed trading strategies that incorporate technical analysis, position-sizing, and risk management to boost performance while reducing portfolio r...

We recently completed some interesting research related to one of our newest Custom Indexes – the Commodities to Smart Cash Index (C2SC Heat Index) – weighted by the US Dollar and VIX.  We’ve been reviewing this new index for months watching it to see how it reacts to various trends in Lumber, Gold, Treasury Yields, the Smart Cash Index, and other weighted values.  Recently, we added the Fed Funds Rate to this chart and suddenly things took on a different perspective. We had drawn horizontal lines on the Commodities to Smart Cash index highlighting historical high, low, ...

Several years ago, industry observers predicted that direct indexing would be the next wave of innovation to upturn the asset management industry, equal to the revolution of exchange traded funds and the rise of mutual funds prior to that. Institutional investors have always customized their own portfolios, and separately managed accounts have long been used as an investment wrapper for wealth managers to richer clients. But for retail investors and most financial advisors, direct indexing—or tweaking an index-based portfolio around the individual needs of the client—was a small part of t...