Quote of the Day
"Past performance does not equal future results because no two markets are exactly alike."
(Michael Batnick)
Markets
- The aggregate bond index hasn't had a down year since 2013. (compoundadvisors.com)
- How bad was 2020 for value strategies? Pretty bad... (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- Why you shouldn't put too much stock in inflation breakevens. (economist.com)
- Gold is falling relative to other metals, including platinum. (sentimentrader.com)
Crypto
- What does an institutionalized market for Bitcoin look like in practice? (ft.com)
- Canada now has two approved Bitcoin ETFs. (etftrends.com)
- How other countries are dealing with Bitcoin ETPs. (nature.com)
Companies
- Zillow ($Z) continues to build out the suite of services for home buyers (and sellers). (businessofbusiness.com)
- What the unbundling of the insurance stack would look like. (a16z.com)
- A major front in the podcast wars is ad tech. (theverge.com)
Retail trading
- Nearly every online broker has seen a surge in account openings. (barrons.com)
- VCs are throwing money at retail equity trading apps. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Why IG Group Holdings is making a move into the U.S. brokerage market now. (barrons.com)
SPACs
- Are SPACs really the best solution to the high cost of IPOs? (economist.com)
- The seeds of the end of the SPAC boom are already being sown. (hbr.org)
Funds
- Why the roll out of non-transparent, active ETFs has been muted. (wsj.com)
- Like it or not, ESG strategies will over time get evaluated on their performance. (bloombergquint.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims have unexpectedly jumped the past two weeks. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Economic forecasters are fully on board with the post-pandemic economic boom scenario. (economist.com)
- A lot of the same people who opposed economic stimulus in 2009, opposite it today. (ritholtz.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: bigger goalies. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: the goal of tax planning. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How are we to value equities in a post-Covid, economic boom? (abnormalreturns.com)
- The concept of compounding has a branding problem. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why 'good defaults' matter for consumers and why financial educators should have modest expectations. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Tired of hour-long podcasts? then check out your favorite bloggers read some their recent posts on The Goldmine. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
