Mr. Hurd became known for his flip chart and his ability to distill each business decision to a set of metrics that could determine how profitable a move would be, said former colleagues.
In the pages of this publication and elsewhere, many have posited that recalcitrant IT departments, hidebound by a history of rigid organization, have been a bottleneck to the adoption of new technologies and, by extension, the ability to distill business value from data.
If you believe in your ability to take the plethora of economic information available and distill it into accurate forecasts of the market moving forward, there is no better investment vehicle available than sectors and the ETFs that cover them.