The death of Alpha

Why no one can beat the market anymore, and other must reads from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
SEP 20, 2013
Each week I read all of the important stories affecting your business and investments. Below is the weekly catch-up, curated just for you: The Death of Alpha: Why no one can beat the market anymore. (Institutional Investor) Federal Reserve shocks the market when it decides not to taper it's easing program - what spooked the committee? (The Economist) High ranking Apple executives on the release of iPhone 5S and why they don't care about the "junk" end of the smartphone game. (BusinessWeek) This week investors plowed $26 billion into global equity mutuals funds, the biggest weekly total since at least 2005! (Bloomberg) Google announces its next challenge - it will proceed to take on death itself with Project Calico. (TIME) Joshua Morgan Brown is a New York City-based wealth manager and popular financial commentator on CNBC. You can follow his writing at The Reformed Broker blog and his random outbursts on Twitter @reformedbroker.

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