Book list: Six books Michele Hansen had wished she had read sooner including The One-Page Financial Plan by Carl Richards. (Medium)
Quote of the Day
"Does anyone disagree that AI assistant technology is table stakes for the next decade?"
(John Gruber)
Chart of the Day
Investors are pouring money into intermediate bonds funds at the expense of go-anywhere bond funds.
Markets
- The 'fear trade' is falling apart. (fmdcapital.com)
- Dividend growth is steady in Q3. (crossingwallstreet.com)
Strategy
- Notes from the Sohn San Francisco 2016 Conference. (marketfolly.com)
- A lot has changed on Wall Street in 50 years. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Offers
- If you've read "Thinking Fast and Slow" you will likely want to read Michael Lewis' forthcoming "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds." (amazon.com)
- Try Audible.com and get two free audiobooks including the new memoir by Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run." (amazon.com)
- Amazon has launched Prime Reading with access to a bunch of magazines and books. (amazon.com)
Companies
Finance
Quantitative Momentum
- "Quantitative Momentum" reviews the research and prospects for individual stock momentum. (blog.alphaarchitect.com)
- Get the new book from Wes Gray and Jack Vogel "Quantitative Momentum" at a big discount here: (amazon.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims are at historically low levels. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- It's hard to see how the Fed raises rates in November. (economistsview.typepad.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: making good decisions. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What questions could we answer with 10,000 years of smart beta data? (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns purchased in September 2016. (abnormalreturns.com)
