Quote of the Day
"Thinking about shockproofing portfolios once the tanks roll is too late. It all goes back to the fundamental idea of having a diversified portfolio."
(Jim Masturzo)
Markets
- What high volatility says about the state of the stock market. (sentimentrader.com)
- Beware hindsight bias when it comes to looking at the magazine cover indicator. (ritholtz.com)
- Doomscrolling isn't going to help anything. (evidenceinvestor.com)
Crypto
- FTX is beefing up its institutional footprint. (bloomberg.com)
- DAO governance is messy, by design. (businessofbusiness.com)
Apple
- The new Mac Studio has plenty of ports. (theverge.com)
- The new Studio Display is filled with all manner of new technology. (om.co)
- The iPad and Mac are slowly merging. (wired.com)
Finance
- Private equity firms are the new 'financial supermarkets.' (nytimes.com)
- Fidelity Investments' parent announced record revenues and profits. (wsj.com)
- Renaissance Technologies' Jim Simons has made II's list of the top earning hedge fund managers for the past 21 years. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Russia
- Western consumer brands are stuck with no good options in Russia. (ft.com)
- The history of McDonald's ($MCD) in post-Soviet Russia. (washingtonpost.com)
- Citi's ($C) Russian bank is in limbo. (ft.com)
- On the parallels between Russian oil and Confederate cotton. (rogerlowenstein.substack.com)
Real estate
- London's property market is under pressure due to sanctions on Russian oligarchs. (wsj.com)
- The Manhattan apartment market is red hot. (bloomberg.com)
- What's going to happen to all those empty office buildings? (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
Economy
- Consumer inflation is at multi-decade highs. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Have we seen the lows for jobless claims in this cycle? (bonddad.blogspot.com)
- The gasoline intensity of U.S. GDP has been falling for decades. (econbrowser.com)
- How high can gasoline prices go? (vox.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: the simulation illusion. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: your personal preferences. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Check out the iCap list of the "18 Top Financial Advisers and Real Estate Investment Influencers You Should Be Following in 2022." (icapequity.com)
- The 2022 Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook is here! (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)