Book review: Digital Wealth: An Automatic Way to Invest Successfully by Simon Moore provides investors an overview of wealth management algorithms. (Reading the Markets)
Quote of the Day
"Everyone is a closet technician. Everyone. And in a panic or a market correction, this truism is even more, um, truistic."
(Josh Brown)
Markets
- Every major asset class is down on a one-year basis. (capitalspectator.com)
- Stock markets can sell off (hard) without a recession. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Why the bears are so vocal at present. (theirrelevantinvestor.wordpress.com)
Strategy
- Why investors should avoid return estimates to build long term portfolios. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- Eight steps to build a better risk management system. (capitalspectator.com)
- How rapid gains blind us to risk. (sharpereturns.ca)
Offers
- Amazon shows more Golden Globes than Netflix. Check them all out with a 30-day Prime trial. (amazon.com)
- Sign up for Audible.com and get two free audio books including "The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It...Every Time." (amazon.com)
Companies
- Companies are scanning private equity portfolios for acquisition candidates. (wsj.com)
- David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is now long Macy's ($M). (businessinsider.com)
- An activist investor thinks Viacom ($VIA) is woefully undervalued. (nytimes.com)
Amazon
- Soon Amazon ($AMZN) Echo devices will be able to control your thermostat. (fortune.com)
- A link to more data on the Amazon Echo. (amzn.to)
Technology
- WhatsApp is going free. How will it make money? (qz.com)
- Tero Kuittinen, "There are no comebacks in the app industry." (bgr.com)
- Why the tech giants are likely to make a push into finance. (disruptivefinance.co.uk)
Finance
- Investment banks are boosting the pay of junior bankers. (next.ft.com)
- How peer-to-peer lending gets done in China. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Funds
- The 2015 ETF.com Awards Finalists. (etf.com)
- Do active managers outperform in emerging market equities? (etf.com)
Global
Economy
- Why US oil production is likely to continue falling. (econbrowser.com)
- Homebuilder sentiment in January remained high. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- A recession seems unlikely in 2016. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Female economists get no credit for co-authoring a paper with a male colleague. (blog.supplysideliberal.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: believing in yourself. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: index definitions. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
