Book notes: Three important ways to give feedback. Insights from Getting it Done: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge by Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp. (Farnam Street)
Quote of the Day
"The portal way of learning finance is in serious decline. As for making decisions it may already be dead."
(Howard Lindzon)
Markets
- Risk-on assets had another good week, last week. (capitalspectator.com)
- A look at S&P 500 option expiration weeks. (quantifiableedges.com)
- Why shorts have been having a hard time of it. (thereformedbroker.com)
Strategy
- How to identify growth traps. (factorinvestor.com)
- Patience is crucial to successful trading. (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- Benchmarks are important but easily abused. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Why Barry & Co. put so much effort into blogging and client education. (ritholtz.com)
Offers
- Try Audible.com and Get Two Free Audiobooks including "When Breath Becomes Air." (amazon.com)
- You can join Kindle Unlimited for a 30-day trial and read to your heart's content. (amazon.com)
Companies
- Amazon ($AMZN) Web Services is 10 years old. (fortune.com)
- Why Dropbox has gotten off of Amazon's ($AMZN) cloud network. (wired.com)
P2P Loans
- Sentiment has turned on securitized P2P loans. (bloomberg.com)
- How do borrowers think about P2P loans? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Finance
- Wall Street trading desks are getting "juniorized." (businessinsider.com)
- Blackstone Group ($BX) is flipping a portfolio of luxury hotel properties. (wsj.com)
- The tax exemption for muni bonds needs an overhaul. (medium.com)
- SPACs are a bright spot in the IPO market. (blogs.wsj.com)
Funds
- How many ETFs is too many? (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- Are flexible stock funds superior? (news.morningstar.com)
Global
- Why central banks should give up on negative interest rates. (blogs.ft.com)
- The emerging market bond market is once again open to borrowers. (next.ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: PE replication. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Social media and the modern investment professional. (abnormalreturns.com)
