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Quote of the Day
"A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back..It’s not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time; it is just the way it works."
(Herb Kelleher)
Markets
- When you short a stock you not only need to be right, you need to be very right. (elmfunds.com)
- Why forecasters will just keep on forecasting. (irishtimes.com)
Strategy
- Diversification works...just not all the time. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- The perils of home bias: the case of Brexit. (msci.com)
- Why follow an investment strategy that only causes you additional stress? (safalniveshak.com)
Companies
- A big profile of Tilray ($TLRY) CEO Brendan Kennedy. (fortune.com)
- Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) purchased the railroad BNSF ten years ago. How did it turn out? (berkshirebuffettandbeyond.com)
Finance
- Blackstone Group ($BX) is not messing around. They just raised a $20 billion real estate fund. (wsj.com)
- Spain is a hotbed for private equity activity. (ft.com)
Funds
- How is Invesco's new fundamental-weighting scheme different? (morningstar.com)
- Robert Hagstrom, "Evaluating good investment performance is not just tabulating outcomes but understanding how a portfolio manager‘s process ultimately delivers the long-term results clients seek." (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- Why it's not surprising that Vanguard is turning its back on levered ETPs. (sl-advisors.com)
Economy
- National homebuilder confidence increased in January. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The government shutdown is working its way into the broader economy. (capitalspectator.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: steering off course. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: terrible sellers. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A Q&A with Daniel Crosby author of "The Behavioral Investor." (abnormalreturns.com)
