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Quote of the Day
"It is time for public officials to consider the pros and cons of these issues with indexers, the financial community, academia, and active managers alike—and develop national policies that support high standards of corporate governance. It will require their working together constructively and cooperatively."
(John C. Bogle)
Index funds
- The big index fund providers are the "Amazons of the fund world." (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Why we don't need to worry about the power of index providers. (pragcap.com)
Crypto
- How the Chairman of the SEC thinks about cryptocurrencies and ICOs. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Why a Bitcoin ETF is nowhere imminent. (etf.com)
Amazon Health
- John Doerr thinks an "Amazon Prime Health" is coming. (fastcompany.com)
- How much do you want Amazon ($AMZN) to know about your health? (abnormalreturns.com)
Apple Music
- What Apple ($AAPL) Music is doing to try and narrow the gap with Spotify ($SPOT). (ft.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) Music will soon be available on Amazon ($AMZN) Echo devices. (blog.aboutamazon.com)
Fund management
- Intermediate term bond funds are not outperforming the index on a 10-year rolling basis. (morningstar.com)
- The performance of Ivy League endowments has trailed a passive portfolio of 60 percent U.S. stocks and 40 percent bonds over the past ten years. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Land
- How we built (or not) our way into an urban flooding problem. (slate.com)
- America has way too many parking spaces. (citylab.com)
- Not all parks are created equal. (fastcompany.com)
Economy
- Why have Americans stopped moving? (conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
- Why don't Millennials spend more? Because they don't have it. (npr.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: giving thanks. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: marketing isn't advertising. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How the term 'index' has lost much of its original meaning. (abnormalreturns.com)
