Quote of the Day
"Jack Welch played Wall Street like a fiddle with his decades-long record of consistent earnings."
(Andy Kessler)
Markets
- The most interesting thing about the 200 day moving average is the difference in volatility. (pensionpartners.com)
- Returns YTD: good, Middle East stocks, bad, Latin America. (capitalspectator.com)
Strategy
- Hard work is not the same thing as investment skill. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- Five questions (and answers) about 'passive' investing. (pragcap.com)
- Three ways to shift your investment bell curve to the right. (evidenceinvestor.co.uk)
- How blogging has become necessary for financial professionals. (pragcap.com)
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Companies
- Is your company's CEO a visionary or an optimizer? The differences are stark. (intrinsicinvesting.com)
- Instagram is worth $100 billion as a standalone company. (bloomberg.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) just bought PillPack scaring the bejesus out of the pharmacy industry. (qz.com)
Finance
- Ten trends that will keep finance-types on their toes. (bloomberg.com)
- Tech companies are looking to micro-bankers to help launch convertible bonds. (wsj.com)
- The secondary market for private equity funds is booming. (wsj.com)
- The big banks are soon going offer digital bank accounts for your phone. (nypost.com)
Hedge funds
- Hedge funds have dived headlong into the litigation finance game. (nytimes.com)
- Commodity-focused hedge funds are in terminal decline. (wsj.com)
- Whitney Tilson is teaching wannabe fund managers how to make it in the hedge fund game. (wsj.com)
- Bridgewater Associates ownership structure is widening out. (nytimes.com)
Fund management
- Can you pick investment managers better than an algorithm? Take this quiz to find out. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- An assessment of what challenges Vanguard faces after a decade of torrential growth. (morningstar.com)
- The do's and dont's of trading ETFs. (wisdomtree.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims are still sitting at historic lows. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- A good primer on why the slope of the yield curve matters. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: extreme winners. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: increasing the odds. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Announcing my new role at Ritholtz Wealth Management. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What Josh Brown CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management had to say. (thereformedbroker.com)
