Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the economics of dumpster diving.
Investing
- How are female money managers doing around the world? (view.ceros.com)
- McKinsey has been (successfully) running an internal hedge fund. (next.ft.com)
- A look at Norway's "Warren Buffett" in "Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors" by Allen Benello, Michael van Biema, and Tobias Carlisle (marketwatch.com)
- Do you want to trade? Then learn how to program. (bloomberg.com)
- A dozen things learned from Georges Doriot founder of the modern VC industry. (25iq.com)
Non-finance
- Bethany McLean looks at the hot mess that is Valeant Pharmaceuticals ($VRX) and how Wall Street is complicit in its rise. (vanityfair.com)
- Monsanto ($MON) gets a lot of criticism but is helping to feed the world. (fortune.com)
- An oral history of the online travel industry. (skift.com)
- The future of podcasting. (stratechery.com)
- Is 'screen time' making your kids dumb? (digg.com)
- A big interview with Bill Simmons prior to the launch of his HBO talk show. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- An excerpt from Chuck Klosterman's "But What If We're Wrong: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past." (theringer.com)
- The drug war has ebbed in Juarez, Mexico. (nationalgeographic.com)