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Quote of the Day
"Am I the only person who thinks it is completely insane that the 10-year US Treasury yields the same as the 10-year Greek government bond?"
(Frances Coppola)
Strategy
- What are YOU talking about when you say 'momentum'? (blog.validea.com)
- Beware pitches for "crisis risk portfolios." (epsilontheory.com)
Companies
- WeWork plans to go public in September, much earlier than expected. (wsj.com)
- Have investors finally tired of the Salesforce ($CRM) playbook? (theinformation.com)
- How AB-InBev ($BUD) is selling down assets to pay for its acquisition of SABMiller. (ft.com)
- The Beyond Meat ($BYND) boom is just crazy. (330ramp.com)
Netflix
- Netflix ($NFLX) stock has shed $24 billion in value in six days. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) is still in the pole position in the streaming market. (tradesam.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) is upping its efforts to dub shows into English. (nytimes.com)
Finance
- Has direct lending gone too far, with too few controls? (institutionalinvestor.com)
- How quickly is the US moving towards becoming a 'cashless society'? (hbr.org)
Funds
- There is no sign of a cease-fire in the ETF fee wars. (etf.com)
- Concentration among muni bond managers continues to grow. (wsj.com)
- Direct index, led by ESG, is a threat to ETFs. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Smaller asset managers are going by the wayside. Time to worry? (institutionalinvestor.com)
Economy
- Auto sales in the US are slowing. (nytimes.com)
- You can't look at the rise in government debt in isolation. (pragcap.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: your cognitive biases. (abnormalreturns.com)
- I recently appeared on 'Jargon' to talk about what it means to retire today and in the future. (digitaltrends.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: re-balancing luck. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Nobody should think entrepreneurship will be easy. (abnormalreturns.com)
