Tyler Mordy

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Contact Contributor

Biography

• Thoughts From The World's Largest ETF Forum

  Published 12 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Hollywood, Florida has become the ETF industry equivalent of Davos, Switzerland. Each year, IndexUniverse hosts the "go to" conference here for leading advisors, portfolio managers…

• Global ETFlash - Mutual Volatility

  Published 23 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  "Restricting or eliminating the [ETF] business will not solve the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, will not balance the US budget, will not restore bank…

• Workers Of The World Untied

  Published 28 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "In the long run, the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so…

• Behind the Curtain: Entering Oz-sterity and Other Macro Challenges

  Published 17 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  We are in a bull market in behavioral economics and we are in a bear market for regression-based economic forecasting (that relies on historical patterns…

• Temporary Dip, or Rebel Without a Pause?

  Published 29 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Our subject, of course, is not the iconic 1955 American film about emotionally confused and disaffected suburban youth (although there are more investing parallels than…

• It's the End of QE As We Know It (And We Feel Fine)

  Published 23 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Global financial markets are at a crossroads. The key question is this: with the Fed's quantitative easing program set to expire at the end of…

• Revisiting Europe and the Euro: Will Atlas Shrug?

  Published 24 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In the Eurozone, Germany may be feeling like Atlas, the Titan from Greek mythology, bearing the burden of the peripheral nations. While many countries outside…

• Hot Money Blowing Emerging Market Bull Conditions?

  Published 06 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," goes the memorable opening line of Charles Dickens' famous 1859 novel "A…

• Greed is Good - But is it Profitable?

  Published 28 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," declared Gordon Gekko, the fictional antagonist in Oliver Stone's 1987 classic film Wall Street. But was…

• Fallen Angels and Rising Stars

  Published 29 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Why the High-Yield Bond Boom Can Continue Former junk bond king, Michael Milken, must be feeling a tinge of nostalgia -- boom times are back…

• Are 'Safe Assets' in Short Supply

  Published 17 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Is the world suffering from a chronic shortage of "safe assets"? That's the assertion of MIT Economics Professor Ricardo Caballero. In a series of research…

• Revisiting Financials - Is There Life After Bubble?

  Published 17 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Few executives have generated more criticism for a single quote than Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein. After telling London's Sunday Times that he's just a banker…

• Stepping Toward Macro Volatility

  Published 18 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The "Right Stuff" for Global ETF Investors? Few people feel nostalgia for the pop band, New Kids On The Block. However their seminal 1990 track,…

• Commodities -- Does it Take Two to Contango?

  Published 08 April 2010 | viewed 1,286 times

  The subject of commodities has always been a controversial topic. Classical economists, like Adam Smith, viewed a market based economy, unfettered by government regulation, as…

• Investment Tools or Poker Chips?

  Published 16 March 2010 | viewed 2,589 times

  "... human nature desires quick results, there is a peculiar zest in making money quickly, and remoter gains are discounted by the average man at…

• Inglorious Debtors in Global Bond Indexes?

  Published 08 February 2010 | viewed 2,712 times

  Everywhere government spending is presented as a panacea for all our economic ills ... here I'm afraid that we shall have to be dogmatic, and…

• O, Yield, Where Art Thou?

  Published 06 January 2010 | viewed 2,808 times

  The Federal Reserve, with its ability to control interest rates and conduct open market operations ... was hailed in the 1920s as the remedy to…

• When Zero Gains are Good

  Published 04 December 2009 | viewed 3,330 times

  You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip. - Morgan Stanley (Advertisement) John Maynard Keynes, the British economist,…

• I Thought I Wanted An ETF?

  Published 02 November 2009 | viewed 4,058 times

  "You've heard the story before, and no doubt some assertions seem compelling. Before you get on board with ETFs, explore the facts." - Mackenzie Investments,…

• Who is the Fairest of Them All? A Homely Lineup in the Global Currency Beauty Pageant

  Published 28 September 2009 | viewed 3,662 times

  "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent…