Quote of the Day
"Successful diversification requires not just a variety of assets, but a variety of feelings associated with those assets."
(Peter Atwater)
Strategy
- The paradox of choice is real for investors. (humbledollar.com)
- Investing in individual companies requires a whole other skill set. (novelinvestor.com)
Crypto
- Why the first U.S. Bitcoin ETFs will likely be futures-based. (wsj.com)
- Binance is stepping up its KYC regulatory efforts. (theblockcrypto.com)
- Why Binance is struggling to establish a foothold in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
Retail
- Dollar stores got a big boost during pandemic. (washingtonpost.com)
- What retailers are saying about the state of the economy. (axios.com)
Sports biz
- Sports betting companies are gearing up for a big NFL season. (wsj.com)
- Topps lost its MLB deal. Which tanked the company's plan to go public. (cnbc.com)
- Data provider Sportsradar has filed to go public. (ft.com)
Finance
- How the Vanguard Total Bond Market proved that bond indexing can work. (morningstar.com)
- Bill Ackman is giving up on the SPAC game. (bloomberg.com)
Economy
- Americans have been pouring money into their homes. When will it show up in the numbers? (ritholtz.com)
- Canadians are piling on the mortgage debt. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: the innovation economy. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: replacing facts with probabilities. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Context matters: the case of Palantir's vaunted vault of gold. (abnormalreturns.com)
- My post on the dismal past year for gold over at the YCharts blog. (get.ycharts.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)