Review: Victor Dale Hanson’s The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won is “essential reading.” (WSJ)
Quote of the Day
"[Evidence-based investing] is making decisions based on things that we know are factually true."
(Barry Ritholtz)
October markets
- Emerging markets equity led major asset class performance in October. (capitalspectator.com)
- Another month, another month of payoff to beta. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Crtyptocurrencies
- Why Bitcoin futures are a huge development for the hot money crowd. (dealbreaker.com)
- Bitcoin futures could mean lower volatility (wsj.com)
- Open a Coinbase account, trade $100 in cryptocurrencies and get $10 in Bitcoin free. (coinbase.com)
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Finance
- Robinhood is coming to the web. (techcrunch.com)
- Robinhood now has in excess of 3 million customers. (dealbreaker.com)
Fund management
- Nir Kaissar, "There’s a wide variation in TIAA’s fund fees." (bloomberg.com)
- Firms that do a good job explaining performance to clients are rewarded for it. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- How one allocator does manager research. (citywireusa.com)
- Why the asset management industry needs to take radical steps to increase diversity. (behaviouralinvestment.com)
- What skills are asset managers looking for now? (news.efinancialcareers.com)
Offers
- "Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur" by Derek Sivers is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- Trade-in an old Kindle and get up to $75 off a new Paperwhite or Oasis. (amazon.com)
- Sign up for an Audible.com trial and get 2 free audiobooks including "A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History" by Diana Henriques. (amazon.com)
Economy
- The ISM Manufacturing index for October was still strong. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- ADP private employment increased by 235k in October. (capitalspectator.com)
- Traditional economic indicators are no longer working. (bloomberg.com)
- The technological risk for most jobs is overblown. (vanguardblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: retirement saving miscalculations. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The top ten books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in October 2017. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: allocating active risk. (abnormalreturns.com)
