The Takeaway: Why the race is on to scale up your practice

Portfolio The July Mutual Fund Observer is out - why it's impossible to categorize long/short funds.  (Mutual Fund Observer) The thing about investing in tech is that shareholders are not promised a return commensurate with the innovation.  (The Reformed Broker) Larry Swedroe goes hard at the active management "liars"  (Index Universe) The big development from Q2? Dividends jumped by 15%!  (Crossing Wall Street) July is a poretty good month for the S&P.  (Avondale) The Biz Finra has a highly-profitable 2012 thanks to investment portfolio gains and fining/arbitrating a lot of brokers.  (Investment News) You might want to scale up your practice - here's why:  (Advisor One) Full speed ahead for the trend of hedge funds becoming mutual funds or so-called "liquid alts"  (All About Alpha) The mystery of the advisor who scammed 19 NHL players is still unraveling - where are those millions of dollars?  (Fortune) Outliers Why so many prominent hedge funds are struggling right now.  (Business Insider) *** Disclaimer: Joshua Brown is an investment advisor representative with Fusion Analytics. The content above is for informational purposes only, nothing here should ever be construed as investment advice or a solicitation to trade any securities. Mr. Brown or his firm may be long or short securities mentioned above for client or personal accounts at any time.