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Quote of the Day
"People need (and usually deserve) second chances because often the first version of themselves they put out into the world is not even close to the finished product they’ll want everyone to see them as."
(Josh Brown)
Markets
- German 10 year Bund yields are once again negative. (ft.com)
- Hedge fund returns are not created equal. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Strategy
- Markets move to excess. That is just what they do. (collaborativefund.com)
- Active management has lost the PR battle, but we are ALL active managers. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- Diversification should be boring. (blairbellecurve.com)
- There are no shortage of ways to trade and invest. (researchpuzzle.com)
Crypto
- A lot of Bitcoin trading is "fake." (wsj.com)
- A physical-settled Bitcoin futures contract is still a ways off. (pymnts.com)
IPOs
- Why are IPOs oversubscribed? (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Pinterest is not playing around with its IPO. (wsj.com)
Finance
Funds
- Which funds benefit most from securities lending revenue? (morningstar.com)
- Just how real is the ETF price war? (citywireusa.com)
- Do ETFs need better NAV calculations? (etf.com)
Housing
- Mortgage rates have dropped 75 bp from the high. (washingtonpost.com)
- Don't make the mistake of comparing rent straight up with a mortgage payment. (iconocapital.com)
- First-time home buyers struggle to buy a place in New York. (nytimes.com)
- Facebook ($FB) is set to compete with Zillow ($Z). (thebasispoint.com)
- On the financial pressures of living in a really nice neighborhood. (whitecoatinvestor.com)
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: essential listening, (abnormalreturns.com)
- Your home may be an investment but don't expect it to fund your financial goals. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why new technologies at first bring wonder, then disappointment. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: absent angels. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Life is too complicated for you to have a "Number." What you need is optionality. (abnormalreturns.com)
