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Quote of the Day
"Ask yourself a simple question: if I was starting from scratch, would my portfolio look like this? Does my portfolio more represent a jumbled lifetime of collecting investments, rather than a thoughtfully executed plan?"
(James Osborne)
Markets
- There is not much of an edge trading around midterm Election Days. (quantifiableedges.com)
- How have stock markets performed during periods of gridlock in Washington? (thereformedbroker.com)
Correlations
- "Low correlation is no guarantee of protection when markets reprice." (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- It's really easy to abuse measures of asset correlation. (priceactionlab.com)
Measuring managers
- You can only judge managers over a long period of time. (wsj.com)
- Why alpha is shrinking over time. (etf.com)
Companies
- Yet another example of an acquisition, Family Dollar by Dollar Tree ($DLTR) not playing out as planned. (wsj.com)
- Why is Warren Buffett continuing to build a stake in Apple ($AAPL)? (brooklyninvestor.blogspot.com)
Finance
Funds
- Short-duration fixed income ETFs are the new hotness. (benzinga.com)
- 2018 is the poster child for why mutual fund cap gains distributions suck. (morningstar.com)
- High volume ETFs don't necessarily have low bid-ask spreads. (etf.com)
Fund business
- Asset manager stocks have had a rough 2018. (ft.com)
- Institutional investors continue to pour money in private equity, hedge funds not so much. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Economy
- Why Fed rates are likely to continue unabated. (blogs.uoregon.edu)
- North Dakota is swimming in soybeans. (nytimes.com)
- The biggest campaign issues by state. (ritholtz.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Adviser links: sold rather than bought. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You are never done being you. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Just because Apple ($AAPL) is focusing on services for growth doesn't mean they should be less transparent with relevant statistics. (stratechery.com)
- The new iPad Pros are "serious iPads for serious users." In short, powerful and expensive. (daringfireball.net)
- Unlike ten years ago, the new Macbook Air has legitimate competition. (theverge.com)
