published Jun 8, 2018 8:05:01 AM, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg Opinion) — Last summer, we looked at fundamental indexing, which is perhaps better known by the catchy marketing phrase “smart beta.” The practice uses metrics such as book value, earnings and dividend yield to assemble investment portfolios, rather than the

As Americans, we often take for granted the tremendous amounts of benefits we have compared to the rest of the world.  Sure, there are a lot of things that could be better and a lot of things that need to be changed, but for the most part we are relatively