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Quote of the Day
"The end of The Gartman Letter underlines how investing has transformed itself from a craft practised by humans with opinions to an engineering discipline dominated by math geeks with formulas."
(Ian McGugan)
Markets
Strategy
- Cash plays a big role in aligning your portfolio with your risk tolerance. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- You can't simulate living through a bear market. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
- 10 lies portfolio managers tell. (behaviouralinvestment.com)
"The Man Who Solved the Market"
- Jim Simon's story is vividly told in Zuckerman's book. (mathinvestor.org)
- Five questions for Gregory Zuckerman author of "The Man Who Solved the Market." (blog.validea.com)
Alphabet
- Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Alphabet. (nytimes.com)
- This is a sign that the 'Alphabet as Berkshire Hathaway' experiment is likely over. (bloomberg.com)
- Google's third era is here. (theverge.com)
- Alphabet is playing from a position of strength, not weakness. (howardlindzon.com)
Apple
- Apple ($AAPL) has been uniquely successful at using design to drive customer demand. (rationalwalk.com)
- How Apple ($AAPL) gets you to spend more on your devices. (onezero.medium.com)
Companies
- Why interoperability doesn't work for Big Tech. (stratechery.com)
- Facebook ($FB) is spending big money to break out of the advertising-only mould. (nytimes.com)
- Viacom and CBS are reunited. Now the hard work begins. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Funds
- A great reminder that fame and returns don't necessarily go together in hedge fund land. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Looking for alternatives to the broad aggregate bond index? (morningstar.com)
- The world's 'cheapest hedge fund' has closed. (fnlondon.com)
Economy
- The November ADP report showed slow private employment growth. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Economic data is for sure mixed, but not tilting toward a recession. (scottgrannis.blogspot.com)
- Inflation depends on who is measuring it. (sl-advisors.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: an unfillable void. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: hard thinking. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Monthly ESG links: lacking prediction power. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Your harshest critic lives in your house and prevents you from making progress toward your goals. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Cultivating passion and purpose in your life. (abnormalreturns.com)