Winner: Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story won the 2017 Business Book of the Year Award. (Talking Biz News)
Quote of the Day
"Quantopian is a young firm and could yet turn its fortunes around. But the challenges so far suggest that recruiting and training mechanical engineers, nuclear scientists and other amateurs around the globe to be quantitative traders may be more difficult that some had expected"
(Gregory Zuckerman)
Markets
- The Treasury yield curve continues to flatten. (capitalspectator.com)
- NYSE FANG+ futures just started trading. (themacrotourist.com)
Strategy
- The best investors are open to changing their minds. (collaborativefund.com)
- Once you reach your investment goal you still need to find something to do with your money. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- On the danger of putting too much into alternatives. (alphabaskets.com)
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Companies
Finance
Fund management
- John Rekenthaler, "Long-short equity funds aren't terribly "alternative." (beta.morningstar.com)
- What Jack Bogle and Gene Fama agree on. (evidenceinvestor.co.uk)
Kindle deals
- "Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age" by Jeff Goins is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "The Nest" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World" by Rob Sheffield is just $2.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)" by Barbara Oakley is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
Global
- Looking for more tech IPOs? They are in Asia. (wsj.com)
- An illustration of just how rapidly the West is aging. (visualcapitalist.com)
Economy
- Restaurants HAVE to pass through higher costs. (bloomberg.com)
- The apartment boom may be ending as Millennials start buying their first homes. (wsj.com)
- Where Americans pay the most for rent. (priceonomics.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: small, consistent acts. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Q&A with Tobias Carlisle author of "The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market." (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: the appeal of smart beta. (abnormalreturns.com)
