Performance of the hedge fund consensus and best ideas strategies were very strong in the first year out of sample – outperforming the equity indices by over 1000 bps on average.
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James Picerno is always interviewing interesting financial market professionals (ahem especially this one). Wealth Manager Mag has a good interview with First Quadrant’s Max Darnell this month (which has yet to be posted to Picerno’s blog).
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Have a young Rembrandt in the making?
And here is a related but cool gift for the little ones – a personalized coloring book. . .
More cool art sites – BlockPosters and Icing Images (kind of gross if you ask me).
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DeterminedtoQuit smoking? It’s that time of year for resolutions – my New Year’s Resolution is to climb El Capitan in Yosemite, but I don’t think I would go as far as to sign up for Goalmingo.
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Cool video of the day – Arcade Fire “My Body is a Cage”
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