Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum and Smart Contracts by David Gerhard is a highly skeptical take on the cryptocurrency boom. (Value and Opportunity)
Quote of the Day
"Innovation in the ETF industry is alive and well, and increasingly, it’s the little guys who’re putting the big guys on notice."
(Dave Nadig)
Strategy
- Don't let one oddity keep you from an otherwise interesting asset allocation. (portfoliocharts.com)
- Value, quality or both? (factorresearch.com)
Offers
- Fall is coming. Grab a new pair of American-made jeans at Dearborn Denim. (dearborndenim.us)
- Listen to summaries of 2000+ non-fiction books including Joel Greenblatt's "The Little Book That Beats the Market" and get 20% OFF a new Blinkist subscription. (blinkist.com)
- Open a Coinbase account, trade $100 in cryptocurrency and get $10 in Bitcoin free! (coinbase.com)
Companies
- PE is targeting undervalued SaaS companies. (pionline.com)
- Match Group's ($MTCH) Tinder has successfully figured out a way of monetizing its service. (businessinsider.com)
Cryptocurrencies
- China is putting a halt to new ICOs. (bloomberg.com)
- Other countries will soon follow. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- What the demand for ICOs tells us. (medium.com)
- There's really no way to value a coin offering. (wsj.com)
- Ten mistakes crypto newbies make. (medium.com)
Funds
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- ETF links: supercharged ESG. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)