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Quote of the Day
"Behaviorally sound asset allocation is all about maintaining balance. By being a permaeverything you can tweak your exposure to allocations so that you’re never so bullish about anything that it exposes you to excess behavioral risk."
(Cullen Roche)
Markets
- You can get a bear market without a recession, but it certainly helps. (fortune.com)
- For three decades European and US stocks had equal returns, then 2009 happened. (albertbridgecapital.com)
Strategy
- We own bonds not for their returns, but for their ability to buffer a portfolio. (ofdollarsanddata.com)
- Yet another example showing that when it comes to the markets: 'nobody knows nothing.' (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- There is no easy way to turn low-expected returns into high-expected returns. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
Companies
- Softbank is now revisiting its relationship with other portfolio companies. (wsj.com)
- Microsoft ($MSFT) is pivoting its Bing search engine and Edge web browser to business users. (axios.com)
- PayPal ($PYPL) wants to be in physical stores. (axios.com)
Finance
- Buying pre-IPO shares keeps getting easier with the help of new services. (barrons.com)
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) is upping its support for parents and would-be parents. (fnlondon.com)
- " Ion is now a mini-conglomerate that spans data and trade processing, and includes brands such as Dealogic and Mergermarket." (ft.com)
Muni bonds
- Bankers are upping climate-related risk disclosures in new muni bond offerings. (bloomberg.com)
- Did you know the first municipal bond offering in the US occurred in 1812! (visualcapitalist.com)
Private equity
- Why it takes so long to turnaround an endowment fund. (capitalallocatorspodcast.com)
- "Elliott Management Corp., one of Wall Street’s best-known hedge funds, is accelerating its push into private equity." (wsj.com)
- KKR ($KKR) has raised its biggest European buyout fund. (ft.com)
Funds
- Benchmarks matter a lot, for regional international equity funds. (morningstar.com)
- Hedge funds are getting smaller to once again outperform. (washingtonpost.com)
- More evidence that nobody can reliably pick winning funds in advance. (evidenceinvestor.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: holding through the bad times. (abnormalreturns.com)
- In today's Market Moment I look at the importance of the Android purchase for Google and the impact of smartphone use on society. (shows.pippa.io)
- ESG links: shared-value investing (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Adviser links: direct indexing buzz. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Moving forward in your own skin. (abnormalreturns.com)