Here's a topic we never grow tired of talking about at Mullooly Asset: the fiduciary standard we have to our clients as registered investment advisors. To refresh your memory a fiduciary has the legal obligation to put your interests ahead of their own or their...
No Nontransparent Active ETFs for Now
Not too long ago, Tom and I did a podcast about nontransparent active ETFs. If you missed it, check it out here: https://mullooly.net/nontransparent-active-etfs/7641. Our main question about these potential investments was primarily focused on who they would benefit...

October 2014 Increased Volatility
To say that October 2014 has been volatile so far would be an understatement. This month has awoken dormant nervousness inside many investors. Relatively speaking, October has been much more volatile than any other month of 2014 so far. Ryan Detrick recently shared a...
Equity Risk Premium: No Free Lunch Principle
With all the recent volatility in the market, it's provided a good opportunity to remind people what risk premium is all about. Owning equity (stocks) inherently means you're taking on more risk in return for the possibility of a larger reward. This is something a lot...
Brokers are Not Fiduciaries
You've probably heard or read us talk about the fiduciary standard we have to our clients here at Mullooly Asset Management. I read an article from the New York Times over the weekend that echoed a lot of the same sentiments we typically share here on the site. The...
Is Volatility a Good Measure of Risk?
When it comes to investing, many people associate volatility with risk. In fact, most freely substitute the two words interchangeably. This has led most of the financial industry to reference an investment's volatility when talking about risk. However, Corey Hoffstein...
Relative Strength: It Is What It Is, Until It Isn’t
If you're a regular visitor to our site, you've probably heard us mention Tom Dorsey and his team over at Dorsey Wright and Associates before. Today the Wall Street Journal featured a great article profiling Tom and the team. They discussed, among other things, their...
Common and Costly Investing Mistakes
You've heard of the Seven Deadly Sins, right? Well recently I read a post that shared the 7 Deadly Sins of Investing. This is a really great post that Katie Brewer put together on her site Your Richest Life Planning. I was going to pick just one of the seven to share...
Is the “Superstar Fund Manager” Finished?
By now you've likely heard about Bill Gross leaving PIMCO for Janus. It was absolutely huge news last Friday, and people all over the investment industry have been discussing it for almost a week now. In situations like these, everybody likes to chime in. Most of the...
Stacking the Odds in Your Favor
You've probably heard us discuss how relative strength allows us to keep tabs on market leaders and laggards. It's not perfect because no investment strategy is, but relative strength helps us achieve our goal of cutting losses short while letting profits run. We...