10 reasons finance is going to keep changing -- Ritholtz

As long as the potential for doing things faster, cheaper and better is out there, finance will be in flux.

By Barry Ritholtz | June 25, 2018 at 09:07 AM

scrappy startup The days are long but the decades are short Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction 1. Declining fees: 2. Indexing: 3. ETFs: 4. The death of alpha: 5. Fin tech: 6. Behavioral finance: 7. Communications, storytelling: 8. Fiduciary rule: 9. Consolidation: 10. Head count:

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