Book review: What Ashvin Chhabra’s The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life’s Goals gets right about choosing an investment approach. (Institutional Investor)
Quote of the Day
"If you’ve been a growth spurt for the past few years and have not taken the time to do some belt tightening, it might be a good time to do that."
(Fred Wilson)
Markets
- 2015 has seen a wide divergence between the haves and have nots, stock-wise. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Credit markets are tightening in anticipation of the Fed. (ft.com)
Commodities
- November was an awful month for the commodities complex. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Gold is on track for its longest bear market in history. (shortsideoflong.com)
- How rising interest rates affect the price of oil. (econbrowser.com)
Strategy
- What happens if risk factor premiums go away? (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Now is the time of year when everyone starts talking about seasonality. However beware small sample sizes. (theirrelevantinvestor.wordpress.com)
Offers
- Sign up for Audible.com you can get two free books including "The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life's Goals." (amazon.com)
- MODERN TRADER Magazine—the essential journal for professional traders and active investors. Special Subscription Offer! (moderntrader.com)
Companies
- Why Prime is so central to what Amazon ($AMZN) is doing. (bloomberg.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) Prime TV could soon be on the Apple ($AAPL) TV. (techcrunch.com)
- The enclosed shopping mall is fading into extinction. (wsj.com)
Finance
- Why private equity loves to buy into hedge funds. (ft.com)
- BATS is going to take another crack at an IPO. (wsj.com)
ETFs
Economy
- If you were the Fed Chairman what would you do? (bloombergview.com)
- The great (growth) normalization is well underway. (pragcap.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: collapsing efficient frontiers. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
