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Archive for January, 2010

  • ETF industry growth illustrated
    , January 21st, 2010 at 4:15 pm, Comments: 0

    In another edition of infrequent “charts that need no further explanation” one can see below a chart from The Economist documenting the growth in the [...]

  • Thursday links: unbiased industriousness
    , January 21st, 2010 at 1:10 pm, Comments: 0

    Apparently Dr. Copper’s PhD is legit.  (Crossing Wall Street) How Vanguard won the past decade.  (Morningstar) Junky, i.e. low price-to-book value, banks catch a bid.  [...]

  • Wednesday links: still absent edition
    , January 20th, 2010 at 1:52 pm, Comments: 0

    Still no linkfest today.  Thank you all for your patience. In the meantime check out some other linkfests we read on a regular basis. The [...]

  • Tuesday links: absent edition
    , January 19th, 2010 at 12:37 pm, Comments: 0

    Due to exigent circumstances there will be no linkfest today. In the meantime check out some other linkfests we read on a daily basis. The [...]

  • Monday links: MAVIN mavens
    , January 18th, 2010 at 11:09 am, Comments: 0

    How to invest in the MAVINS.  (The Money Game) What constitutes a frontier market these days?  (The Reformed Broker) The panelists in the annual Barron’s [...]

  • Sunday links: net-net-net returns
    , January 17th, 2010 at 10:41 am, Comments: 0

    How simply coining the term ‘BRICs’ has “redrawn powerbrokers’ cognitive map.”  (FT via Clusterstock) Two looks at the scope of the current market rally.  (The [...]

  • Friday links: black box blues
    , January 15th, 2010 at 12:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Charles Kirk, “In my experience, usually the things we fear the most are the things that impact the market the least. I’ve seen this happen [...]

  • Thursday links: skewed returns
    , January 14th, 2010 at 12:34 pm, Comments: 0

    The Dow hit its bull market high ten years ago today.  (Crossing Wall Street) Since the collapse of Lehman Bros. preferred stocks have outperformed high [...]

  • Wednesday links: TBTF taxes
    , January 13th, 2010 at 12:40 pm, Comments: 0

    What a sub-250 bp Baa-Treasury spread means for the stock market.  (Crossing Wall Street) Watching the reversal in the VIX.  (FT Alphaville, Daily Options Report) [...]

  • Tuesday links: short suffering
    , January 12th, 2010 at 12:21 pm, Comments: 0

    John Carney, “Warren Buffet has consistently beaten the market with an annualized rate of return of around 22%. You cannot do this, especially not by [...]