Seth Karlman & Baupost Group

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All you ever wanted to know about Seth Klarman and Baupost from HFL. Just curious, does anyone have yearly Baupost returns?

Consensus Views

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Are there any more consensus views right now than: -interest rates are going up, and -gold is going up ?

Traveling

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NYC August 10-13 Drop me a line if you want to get together.

PTJ

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via Zero Hedge, all seven parts of Trader - The Documentary.  Highly recommended viewing. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELiKV9Kqo84&feature=player_embedded httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RarqLQ6d6RY httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7ZbNGYHTc httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8pWUOPaN0g httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmge7PE7I84 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFOXDtHi8os httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIwHoOud01s

Persistence in Hedge Fund Returns

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One more reason to like AlphaClone. . . Do Hot Hands Exist Among Hedge Fund Managers? RAVI JAGANNATHAN, ALEXEY MALAKHOV, and DMITRY NOVIKOV∗ Abstract In measuring performance persistence,...

Seven Sins of Fund Management

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A couple years old, but great read! Seven Sins of Fund Management

LinkFest

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Really enjoyed Fox's book The Myth of the Rational Market, and I'm going to add it to the Reading List.  Although I wish Fox...

What a Difference a Year Makes! Endowment, Buy and Hold, and Tactical Returns

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In my last post I examined the performance of the endowments (estimated) versus some publicly traded asset classes, allocations, and tactical models.  Below I...

Stockcharts?

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For some reason StockCharts keeps breaking my link to make the timing updates public. I have contacted them no less than 20 times...

The Endowment Model vs. the Timing Model, 2009 Returns

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Both Barron's and the WSJ penned articles on the endowments sorry performance for 2009 (and neither mentioned my book - FAIL). Lots of readers have...