Q&A: Nick Riggle author of On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck on creating “social openings.” (Scientific American)
Quote of the Day
"My sense is that we have become too obsessed with fees at the expense of thinking about things like portfolio construction. Let’s declare victory on fees and try to help investors think about how to build an all-weather portfolio that can compound for many years to come."
(Jared Dillian)
Strategy
- Why companies die and cities live. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- There is a difference between risk management and risk advantage. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- The case for managed futures. (rcmalternatives.com)
Companies
- Apple ($AAPL) is being shortsighted in its 4K TV pricing. (daringfireball.net)
- Why Amazon's ($AMZN) HQ2 is overhyped. (shift.newco.co)
- American Airlines' ($AAL) CEO is seriously tempting fate. (fortune.com)
Hardware
- Pre-order a new Amazon echo plus with a built-in smart home hub and get a Philips Hue bulb free. (amazon.com)
- The new 4k Amazon Fire TV is available for pre-order. (amazon.com)
- Pre-order three all-new Amazon echos and get $50 off. (amazon.com)
Finance
- Corporate short-termism and the case for a the Long Term Stock Exchange. (bloomberg.com)
- Square ($SQ) wants to become a real life bank. (buzzfeed.com)
Cryptocurrencies
- Four ways a crypto-hedge fund could generate returns. (medium.com)
- We are going to have to wait longer for a Bitcoin ETF. (etf.com)
- Open a Coinbase account, trade $100 in cryptocurrencies and get $10 in Bitcoin free. (coinbase.com)
- Cryptocurrency exchanges are uniquely vulnerable to hackers. (reuters.com)
- South Korea is cracking down on ICOs. (bloomberg.com)
- The Japanese love to trade Bitcoin. (wsj.com)
Fund management
- A good overview of some up-and-coming players in the quant space. (rcmalternatives.com)
- The scale of Softbank's vision for asset management. (bloomberg.com)
- Ken Griffin is making room in his funds by kicking fund of funds to the curb. (dealbreaker.com)
Conferences
- The 2nd annual Evidence-Based Investing Conference in NYC on November 2nd is packed with great speakers. Get 25% off your registration now! (thereformedbroker.com)
- Stocktoberfest West on October 13th is going to livestreamed on Facebook ($FB). (blog.stocktwits.com)
- Tom Brakke is hosting an advanced due diligence and manager selection conference in November in Minneapolis. Details here: (tjbresearch.com)
Global
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: backstabbing bankers. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: generating exposure. (abnormalreturns.com)
- We are all quants now. (abnormalreturns.com)
- One you publish your book everything else is gravy. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Learn enough about investing to be able to foul off a professional investment pitch. (abnormalreturns.com)
