The new program by TiE Silicon Valley aims to help scale Indian startups globally to reach $1 billion in value. Photo Credit: Shutterstock, Adorable newborn wearing a hat, bow-tie and glasses and holding a one hundred dollar bill TiE Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley chapter of  The Indus Entrepreneurs, announced its Billion Dollar Babies initiative, a new…

At this time of the year, when Santa Claus is making his list of who has been naughty and nice, optimists rub their hands in glee, anticipating a stocking full of goodies. Pessimistic believers resign themselves to something worse. In pension land, if you embrace fiduciary change, the incoming head of the U.S. Senate Finance…

The trend on a global basis is getting really scary. Our forecasts have been computer generated and are by no means my personal opinion of what I would like to see. This is getting to be really horrible as government simply go after more and more money without any consideration what happens when you have…

I am ecstatic that the majority of my client base had 65%-70% long exposure in lower-volatility stock ETFs over the last two trading sessions. The S&P 500 picked up roughly 4.5%, which means that these portfolio balances rose approximately 3.0% since the U.S. Federal Reserve promised to be “patient” with respect to raising overnight lending…

‘If you are a fiduciary, the decision is easy.’ Especially if you take the duties of a fiduciary for other people’s assets seriously. What about the fiduciary responsibilities of central banks?  Hard to say, right? We’ll get right on that– in about seven years.  Jawohl!   And no need for an audit.  We believe. And as…