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Quote of the Day
"Active Fee should be on every manager’s Morngingstar report next to the fund’s performance figures."
(Casey Wolf)
Chart of the Day
If trend-following strategies lose their convexity, what’s left?
Markets
Strategy
- Given the performance should you even bother investing internationally? (morningstar.com)
- How to invest if you aren't willing to try and forecast the future. (alphaarchitect.com)
- How to rebalance your portfolio without actually selling stocks. (morningstar.com)
Companies
Finance
- SmileDirectClub is coming public. (cnbc.com)
- The LSE acquisition of Refinitiv is a go. (reuters.com)
- Big banks just can't shake currency trading scandals. (economist.com)
Funds
- Five lessons we can learn from target date funds. (morningstar.com)
- Franklin Templeton ($BEN) wants to start a new exchange-traded fund that will invest in equities, debt, commodities and currencies -- rather than allocating to one asset class. (finance.yahoo.com)
Global
- Portugal is working to bring some of its emigrants home. (economist.com)
- These are the world's ten most innovative economies. (visualcapitalist.com)
Housing
- Natural disaster unleash home flippers willing to buy damaged/destroyed houses. (wsj.com)
- Americans continue to build homes in coastal areas that are doomed to flood. (zillow.com)
- Home flipping is bigger than ever. (thebasispoint.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims ticked up higher. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The July ISM Manufacturing report came in slightly above 51. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Why rate cuts have lost their power. (nytimes.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: funding trade-offs. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don't short-circuit your financial plan with an inflexible spending rule. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: a taboo subject. (abnormalreturns.com)
