Excerpt: A seven step guide to giving feedback from Karin Hurt and David Dye’s Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results. (Fast Company)
Quote of the Day
“With any asset class, when substantial new money flows in, the returns go down. No surprise, then, that as money poured into hedge funds, overall returns have soured...To many, hedge funds have come to seem like a failed product.”
(Seth Klarman)
Markets
- Why isn't the market freaking out about Trump? (marginalrevolution.com)
- Pizza stocks have been on fire. (money.cnn.com)
Offers
- Ben Carlson's new book "Organizational Alpha: How to Add Value in Institutional Asset Management" is now available. (amazon.com)
- Amazon's most popular Kindle the Paperwhite is currently $20 off. (amazon.com)
- The new book by Derek Thompson, "Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction" looks interesting. (amazon.com)
Companies
- Why USV is investing in Tucows ($TCX). (avc.com)
- Why "sexy" companies often turn out to be bad investments. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Finance
- Why tech IPOs are so coveted: the first day pop. (wsj.com)
- Sell-side research would be little missed. (ft.com)
Funds
- Why the ETF business is more diverse than other parts of finance. (theatlantic.com)
- Canadian investors are not impressed with passive funds. (blog.alphaarchitect.com)
- Why ETFs haven't made headway in 401(k) plans. (marketwatch.com)
Vietnam
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: factor product fees. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Retail forex follies, revisited. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- ETF links: doing well by your partners. (abnormalreturns.com)
