Archive for December, 2012

• Monday links: valuation vagaries
  abnormalreturns, December 31st, 2012 at 11:23 am, Comments: 0

  Here’s hoping our readers had a happy and healthy 2012. We will catch up again in the New Year! Quote of the day Howard Lindzon, [...]

• Authors pick their favorite finance books of 2012
  abnormalreturns, December 31st, 2012 at 9:48 am, Comments: 0

  This post originally appeared at the Amazon Money & Markets blog. Last month’s post looked the role of skill and luck in analyzing past investment [...]

• Sunday links: manager risk magnified
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2012 at 7:46 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Tom Brakke, “Manager risk often comes out of nowhere and can be very intense. That’s one of the unappreciated challenges of [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2012 at 6:46 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, [...]

• Saturday links: learning hard lessons
  abnormalreturns, December 29th, 2012 at 7:00 am, Comments: 0

  Investing Seven lessons from the financial crisis for high net-worth clients.  (Enterprising Investor) Five reasons the Facebook ($FB) IPO was a blessing in disguise.  (Pando [...]

• Friday links: bond bear markets
  abnormalreturns, December 28th, 2012 at 10:57 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Floyd Norris, “The great bear market in bonds, both corporates and governments, lasted 35 years, from 1946 to 1981. The bull [...]

• Curating your financial life
  abnormalreturns, December 27th, 2012 at 2:45 pm, Comments: 0

  Much is being of the fact that bonds and even equities have easily outperformed average hedge fund performance over the past decade. As The Economist [...]

• Thursday links: an investment paradox
  abnormalreturns, December 27th, 2012 at 12:33 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Howard Marks, “This paradox exists because most investors think quality, as opposed to price, is the determinant of whether something’s risky. [...]

• Wednesday links: Japan’s end game
  abnormalreturns, December 26th, 2012 at 12:38 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Tim Duy, “Japan might very well be heading toward the end-game of permanent zero interest rate policy: Explicit monetizing of deficit [...]

• Monday links: the end of the macro age
  abnormalreturns, December 24th, 2012 at 12:18 pm, Comments: 0

  The stock market will be closed tomorrow for the Christmas holiday. Here’s wishing you all a happy holiday. See you back on Wednesday. Quote of [...]