Q&A: With Andy Weir author of Artemis: A Novel on the third iteration of the novel. (The Verge)
Quote of the Day
"Today's fund companies can't and won't attract as many high achievers into their investment-management groups as in the past."
(John Rekenthaler)
Strategy
- What can we learn from GE's ($GE) fall from grace? (blog.independenceadvisors.com)
- Can Fama-French alphas be used to run a sector rotation strategy? (allocatesmartly.com)
- "Commodity markets offer a wide set of alternative risk premium opportunities." (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Amazon
- Amazon's most powerful tablet the HD 10 is $50 off. (amazon.com)
- Amazon Kindle and Kindle Paperwhites are now $30 off. (amazon.com)
- Bose QuietComfort 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones are at a huge discount. (amazon.com)
- For the ice lover in your life: the Opal Nugget Ice Maker is currently $50 off. (amazon.com)
Cryptocurrencies
- HFT traders are now trading Bitcoin. (bloomberg.com)
- The CME ($CME) is still looking at 2017 to launch Bitcoin futures. (reuters.com)
- Open a Coinbase account, trade $100 in cryptocurrency and get $10 in Bitcoin free. (coinbase.com)
Companies
- Why Apple's ($AAPL) HomePod is three years behind Amazon's ($AMZN) Echo speakers. (bloomberg.com)
- Why you should expect to see more MLP conversions. (bloomberg.com)
Fund management
- Why fund firms are skipping a generation to higher younger CEOs. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Everything you need to know about hedge fund conversions. (wealthmanagement.com)
- Harvard is thinking about spinning out its real estate management. (bloomberg.com)
Kindle
- "Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary" by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts" by Ryan Holiday is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused" by Mike Dash is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
Economy
- The Chicago Fed National Activity index ticked up in October. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The spread between GDP growth and the Fed funds rate is still wide. (bloomberg.com)
- Joel Kotkin, "Suburbia dominates the geography of the middle class." (ocregister.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: highly constrained versions. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A Q&A with Will Rhind, founder and CEO of new ETF provider GraniteShares. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- ETF links: fee generators. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Q&A with Tom Jacobs editor of "Fortunes in Special Situations in the S (abnormalreturns.com)
