Best of: A good best of 2016 list including I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong. (The Mission)
Quote of the Day
"If you are investing in a target date fund, figure out what’s in it, and figure out if you can make essentially the same investments more cheaply."
(James Kwak)
Strategy
- Why dividend investors get flack from professionals. (jonathanclements.com)
- Some times it takes a great deal of time for value to will out. (alephblog.com)
- Investors have to do a self-examination to become better at their craft. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- The longer the lookback period the better. (investopedia.com)
Offers
- The best mesh wifi system for your home, eero, is more than $100 off at Amazon. (amazon.com)
- Amazon still has holiday deals on the Fire 7" Tablet and the Echo Dot. (amazon.com)
Companies
- Verizon ($VZ) can't easily walk away from the Yahoo ($YHOO) deal. (nytimes.com)
- Tech is becoming a bigger part of the LBO space. (wsj.com)
- How Apple ($AAPL) lost its spot atop the tech heirarchy. (techcrunch.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) just keeps on disrupting all manner of businesses. (bloomberg.com)
Economy
- Chemical activity ended strong for the year. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Five factors to look for in 2017. (econbrowser.com)
- Economics writing that changed peoples minds in 2016. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: words are cheap. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Cash cows, like the actively managed fund business, die slowly then all at once. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: a non-stationary world. (abnormalreturns.com)
- My piece at Enterprising Investor "Soros, Fallibility, Reflexivity, and the Importance of Adapting." (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
