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Quote of the Day
"Doing nothing should be the default setting for most investors, but as the charts above show, that’s easier said than done."
(Michael Batnick)
Markets
Strategy
- What constitutes an 'extraordinary return' for the stock market on a 1, 5 and 10 year? basis (priceactionlab.com)
- Five investment lessons learned from asking pros 'five questions' in 2019. (blog.validea.com)
Apple
- No matter how you slice it Apple ($AAPL) AirPods are a huge and fast growing line of business. (kevinrooke.com)
- AirPods would be even bigger if Apple ($AAPL) could keep up with demand. (daringfireball.net)
Finance
- Ugh. Non-traded REITs had a big 2019. (wsj.com)
- 2019 was a big year for convertible bond issuance. (bloomberg.com)
- Climate risk is increasingly getting factored into muni bond prices. (ft.com)
Funds
- Global index fund AUM crossed the $11 trillion mark in 2019. (ft.com)
- Canadians love their ETF fund of funds. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- Franklin Templeton ($BEN) had a rough year when it comes to fund outflows. (ft.com)
Global
- How a former CIA analyst reads the news coming out of Iran. (barrons.com)
- Some charts of the decade from the UK. (thefinancialbodyguard.com)
- China is financing mega-projects around the world. (visualcapitalist.com)
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: the price of admission. (abnormalreturns.com)
- When it comes to your financial life, getting started is more important than optimizing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Pessimism vs. realism: a thought experiment. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: the broad spectrum of active investors. (abnormalreturns.com)
- No commissions, mean no excuses to get started investing. (abnormalreturns.com)
