Quote of the Day
"Startups become stronger through downturns, those who improve with stress, evolve to dominate."
(Tomasz Tunguz)
Markets
- A sizable chunk of the companies that went public from 2019-21 are trading below their IPO price. (on.ft.com)
- A visualization of the largest public companies by market cap from 2002-2022. (visualcapitalist.com)
Companies
- Combining News ($NWS) and Fox ($FOX) is about Rupert Murdoch, not shareholder value. (variety.com)
- Attrition costs Amazon ($AMZN) a pretty penny ever year. (engadget.com)
- Meta ($META) is going to divest Giphy. (techcrunch.com)
Venture capital
- AI companies are attracting big funding rounds. (theinformation.com)
- Where venture capitalists are putting money to work. (hbr.org)
Fund management
- How transaction costs affect fund returns, whether you can see them or not. (monevator.com)
- ESG is pretty straightforward, once you take politics out of the equation. (behaviouralinvestment.com)
Philanthropy
- The Gates Foundation is spending to eradicate polio worldwide. (apnews.com)
- Mackenzie Scott made a big gift to the Girl Scouts. (npr.org)
Global
- Nobody really knows how fast China's economy is growing, but it is slowing. (ft.com)
- The war in Ukraine is only going to exacerbate Russia's demographic decline. (fortune.com)
- Hundreds of American veterans now work for foreign governments. (washingtonpost.com)
- China is recruiting former RAF pilots to train their army pilots. (nytimes.com)
Economy
- Homebuyer traffic is in free fall. (ritholtz.com)
- National homebuilder confidence fell for the tenth straight month. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Industrial production through September was still strong. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: cutting drawdowns. (abnormalreturns.com)
- As a content creator, authenticity is the only path forward. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Adviser links: emotional dynamics. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Celebrating our 17th blogiversary and a book giveaway. (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)
