List: 7 surprising books that will make your life better including The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson. (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
Quote of the Day
"The concept of volatility hedging is fine. Turning it into a tempting, overly-simplistic, one-click product was a big mistake."
(Jeffrey Miller)
Markets
- Rates have been low for so long that we forgot the havoc rising rates can wreak. (bloomberg.com)
- The short-term relationship between stocks and rates is tenuous, at best. (capitalspectator.com)
- Nothing like a good, old fashioned market freakout to kick up stock correlations. (wsj.com)
Managed futures
- Managed futures have had a historically bad month. (rcmalternatives.com)
- Maybe you shouldn't include equities in your managed futures fund. (wisdomtree.com)
Strategy
- Decision regret is inevitable. Three steps to fight that feeling. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- If you freaked out last week, this week has given a chance to revisit you plan. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Passive commodity investing is a bit of a misnomer. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- Five tips on how to avoid a value trap. (behavioralvalueinvestor.com)
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Companies
Finance
Hedge funds
- Some Harvard alums just want the university's endowment to just index it. (bloomberg.com)
- 'Hedge funds' have become a dirty word among investors. (bloomberg.com)
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: dinner not brunch. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in Thursday's linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Here is our book link round-up for February including links to "Brotopia," "The Case Against Education" and "Off the Charts." (abnormalreturns.com)
- All the world's a bet. A look at Annie Duke's new book "Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts." (abnormalreturns.com)
- ESG links: a faster pace. (abnormalreturns.com)
