Book excerpt: What Todd Wenning got wrong about Tesco from Keeping Your Dividend Edge: Strategies for Growing and Protecting Your Dividends. (Monevator)
Quote of the Day
"Quality is the superstructure of the all-terrain company - and portfolio: They must be able to survive anything thrown at them by the global economy."
(Vitaliy Katsenelson)
Strategy
- Hold your nose and buy Europe. (blogs.wsj.com)
- If you're so smart where is your alpha? (bloomberg.com)
- Your permanently bullish thought for the day. (basonasset.com)
- Buying a stock as an "emotional hedge." (politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)
Offers
- Who doesn't like to laugh? Then sign up for a free trial to SEESO 'where the best comedy lives.' (amazon.com)
- Paul Tough's new book "Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why" for free. (amazon.com)
IPOs
- Twilio has filed for an IPO. (wsj.com)
- Acushnet Company, the owner of golf brands including Titleist and Footjoy, is going public. (reuters.com)
Finance
- How the financial services industry tricks you. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- The death of cash has been exaggerated. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Why wasn't Phil Mickelson charged with insider trading? (bloomberg.com)
Funds
- Should you try to time your smart beta investments? (news.morningstar.com)
- Two big downsides to smart beta investing. (bloomberg.com)
- What you need to know about factor ETFs. (etf.com)
- Even Vanguard isn't perfect. (evidenceinvestor.co.uk)
- Retail traders love to trade leverage oil ETFs. (wsj.com)
Chromebooks
- Chromebooks are increasingly popular. This Macbook Air look-alike may be for you. (businessinsider.com)
- You can get the Acer Chromebook 14 here: (amazon.com)
Global
Economy
- Q1 GDP rose at a 0.8% rate. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Why the Fed won't raise in June, but July.... (economistsview.typepad.com)
- The farm economy is facing a downturn. (wsj.com)
- There's always two ways to look at the economy. (fool.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: a monumental upset. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How much attention should you pay to what McKinsey has to say about the markets? (abnormalreturns.com)