Market Structure Insights
July 11, 2018
This year’s rare midweek July 4 prompted a pause for the Market Structure Map to honor our Republic built on limited government and unbounded individual liberty. Long may it live. Returning to our market narrative: Did you know that 100% of Exchange Traded Fund creations...
June 27, 2018
What’s actionable? It’s a buzzword of business and the investor-relations profession. And, yes, my title violates a rule of grammar because you can’t tell if the topic is a hoax about actionability or if a hoax out there has proved actionable. We’ll answer using the...
June 20, 2018
I hope you enjoyed summer vacation from the Market Structure Map! We skipped last week while immersed in NIRI National, the investor-relations profession’s annual bash, this year at the Wynn in Las Vegas, where at the ModernIR booth these passersby in feathers joined us for...
June 6, 2018
What do these pension funds below have in common? All (over $1.3 trillion of assets), according to Pensions & Investments, periodical for retirement plans, endorse the SEC’s Fee Pilot program on stock-trading in US equities. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System The California Public Employees...
May 30, 2018
We’re back! We recommend Barbados but we didn’t see Rihanna. We also endorse floating around the Grenadines on a big catamaran turning brown and losing track of time. We had rum off the shore of Petit Tabac where Elizabeth set Captain Jack Sparrow’s rum store...
May 23, 2018
EDITORIAL NOTE: We are on a big catamaran with Painkillers in hand watching the sun dissolve into an aqua Grenadine sea. So while we all float on, here’s Part Two of our return to the past to learn today’s lessons. The piece below originally ran...