Book notes: What can biomimicry teach us about investing? A look at Katherine Collins’ The Nature of Investing: Resilient Investment Strategies through Biomimicry. (Enterprising Investor)
Quote of the Day
"The persistent expansion of lifestyle is what makes retirement so difficult."
(Peter Dunn)
Strategy
- How can good economic news be both good and bad for stocks simultaneously? (thereformedbroker.com)
- Accelerated innovation cycles are messing with traditional thinking about valuations. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Health care has been leading the market for awhile now. (stockcharts.com)
- On the myth of summertime trading. (seeitmarket.com)
Companies
- Programmers love Apple's ($AAPL) Swift programming language. (bloomberg.com)
- Why Dish ($DISH) might want T-Mobile ($TMUS). (nytimes.com)
Finance
- Activist investors are under investigation by the SEC for acting in concert. (wsj.com)
- Cash-rich tech companies are scarfing up newly issued corporate bonds. (bloomberg.com)
- Investors are not taking advantage of big data. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Funds
- Why don't mutual fund firms reward their loyal shareholders? (blogs.wsj.com)
- Why isn't the "buyback ETF" benefiting more from the buyback boom. (etf.com)
- Bond ETF fears are overblown. (blogs.barrons.com)
Economy
- The NFP report shows the economy is adding jobs at a rapid clip. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Consumer strength is offsetting industrial weakness. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
- What CEOs have been saying about the economy this week. (skrisiloff.tumblr.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: retail arbitrage. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Summer reading: a list of lists. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you might have missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
