Did you miss this foreign stocks boom? – MarketWatch 07-31-2104

Salient to Investors: Pundits calling for a huge decline in equities are either the absolutely certain types, who have stuck to their prediction for years, and the less media-savvy academics and heads of research at big investment firms who see a decline but after the market goes higher. The last

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Emerging ETFs Turn Positive for 2014 as Outflows Reversed Bloomberg 07-25-14

Salient to Investors: Flows into emerging-market ETFs have turned positive for the year, reversing outflows in the first 2 1/2 months of 2014. The most inflows in 2014 have gone to India-focused ETFs. Investors have withdrawn $1.5 billion from China-targeted ETPs over concern over economic imbalances there. The RSI of the BlackRock ETF

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Proof Investors Love Tech Companies That Skimp on R&D – BloombergBusinessweek 07-09-14

Salient to Investors: A Bernstein Research study “Do High R&D Spenders in Tech Generate Stock Outperformance?” found: Over 1, 3, 5, and 10-year periods, the companies with the lowest spending on R&D tended to perform the best on Wall Street. Over the past 5 years, stocks in the biggest R&D

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Activists Beat S&P 500 in 48 Percent Gain for Shareholders – Bloomberg 03-14-14

Salient to Investors: Corporate activists including Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Nelson Peltz targeted 81 US companies with market values exceeding $1 billion between 1/2009 and 12/31/2013, generating a 48% average gain for long-term investors versus 31% for the  S&P 500. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-03-31/activists-beat-s-p-500-in-48-percent-gain-for-shareholders.html Click here to receive free and

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