Book Q&A: Spencer Jakab author of Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tile the Odds In Your Favor talks about the high cost of being out of the market. (ETF)
Quote of the Day
"The key determinants of investing and trading success are not one’s feelings of confidence, but the objective realities of the marketplace."
(Brett Steenbarger)
Markets
- Markets-wise there wasn't a whole lot of bad news last week. (dashofinsight.com)
- Individual investor sentiment is not frothy. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
- Global PMs are holding a lot of cash. (twitter.com)
Strategy
Offers
- Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment of the book biz. Sign up for a free trial to Audible.com to see what is what. (amazon.com)
- Mesh wi-fi systems are the state of the art for your wireless home. Check out eero today. (amazon.com)
Companies
- A misunderstood company: the case for Apple ($AAPL) stock. (sumzero.com)
- What is a reasonable earnings run rate for Chipotle ($CMG)? (peridotcapital.com)
Finance
- Chuck Royce likes the stocks of the alternative asset managers like KKR ($KKR). (barrons.com)
- The story of Deutsche Bank. (johnkay.com)
Funds
- The SEC just made it easier to list actively managed ETFs. (wsj.com)
- What factors does your multi-factor ETF use? (etf.com)
Global
Economy
- Economic surprises have been trending higher. (blog.yardeni.com)
- What CEOs had to say about the economy this week. (avondaleam.com)
- A succinct summary of the economic week that was. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The public is losing faith in economists. (qz.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)