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Quote of the day
“By relying on well-told stories, we ignore the real truth, the universal truth of how the world actually is.” – Seth Godin
Chart of the day
E-Trade joins the $0 commission game. (Financial Planning)
Markets
- A Q3 2019 market overview. (basonasset.com)
- How tactical asset allocation strategies performed in September 2019. (allocatesmartly.com)
- Pipelines are no longer synonymous with MLPs. (sl-advisors.com)
Strategy
- Why the Uber ($UBER) IPO was a watershed moment for public and private markets. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Why narratives so often drive our thinking. (researchpuzzle.com)
- Early investment experiences can have a profound effect on our psyches. (evidenceinvestor.com)
- The four most important things when investing. (realreturns.blog)
- There are 3 questions every investor should answer before ever entering into a new position. (allstarcharts.com)
Crypto
- There will be another wave of interest in Bitcoin, the question is when. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Chicago's place in the cryptocurrency space. (pointsandfigures.com)
Private equity
- Investors have an insatiable desire for private assets. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Where are all the women in private equity? (bloomberg.com)
Home buying
- The home buying experience is getting digitized, and Zillow ($Z) is in the lead. (thenonconsensus.com)
- The digitization of home buying is well under way. (marketwatch.com)
Commission-free trading
- Who are the big winners (and losers) in the 'Great fee wars of the 2010s'? (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- This is what fee compression looks like. (pragcap.com)
- No-commission trades are not necessarily free. (morningstar.com)
- Why the drop in brokerage stock prices is a good sign for investors. (nymag.com)
- Free trades may be a boon to direct indexing. (forbes.com)
Fund management
- Portfolio managers are going to go from analyzing income statements to tweaking algorithms. (ft.com)
- The bar for active management is rising. (blog.validea.com)
- Investors are abandoning managed futures funds, for good. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- The identity of THE largest college endowment manager may surprise you. (ritholtz.com)
- Data costs are rising at hedge funds. (news.efinancialcareers.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims ticked higher. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The September 2019 Non-Manufacturing ISM Report was weak. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Weak manufacturing data gives the Fed an excuse to cut rates this month. (blogs.uoregon.edu)
- More evidence why the slowdown will persist. (ritholtz.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: the terrain vs. the map. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Change happens slowly, then all at once: the case of zero dollar stock commissions (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: accepting mistakes. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Monthly ESG links: shareholder resolutions. (abnormalreturns.com)
