Book insights: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr. (Farnam Street)
Quote of the Day
"If it were easy to find fund managers who persistently outperform, why would anyone give money to all the other managers? And yet there is no shortage of fund management companies or mutual funds."
(Buttonwood)
Strategy
- How should we think about the 60/40 portfolio? (theirrelevantinvestor.tumblr.com)
- Why squeezing returns from target-date funds is going to be more difficult going forward. (blog.abglobal.com)
- Under what conditions would quants blow up (again)? (humblestudentofthemarkets.blogspot.com)
Companies
- IBM ($IBM) is cozying up with Box. (fortune.com)
- Can Roku continue the navigate the space between Apple ($AAPL) and Google ($GOOG). (fastcompany.com)
- Where did all the public listings go? (bloombergview.com)
- Why Facebook ($FB) should buy Slack. (howardlindzon.com)
Finance
- Slack is ready for Wall Street. Compliance issues abound. (bloomberg.com)
- Shaq wants to get you access to IPOs. (blogs.wsj.com)
- Bank customers are increasingly embracing mobile banking. (blogs.wsj.com)
- There are always potential conflict issues when managing outside money. (fortune.com)
Funds
- Charles Schwab ($SCHW) is pushing forward with robo-solutions. (pragcap.com)
- Some big mutual funds that continue to charge high fees. (news.morningstar.com)
- How quickly should you adopt a new ETF? (nasdaq.com)
Global
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Female money managers: unconscious bias and differentiated returns. (abnormalreturns.com)
- FOMO, the art of not caring and investing in yourself. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: the super-rich circuit. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)