Book Arrived from Amazon
It sounds like a few people received their copies of The Ivy Portfolio today!
If you liked the book (or if you hated it), let...
The D-Process
Required reading: "A Template for What is Going On"
A sign of the times - on the way from Amazon:
The Great Crash of 1929
Essays on...
Cool New Lecture Site
Check out Academic Earth - great site! (HT: RT & SD)
Swensen lecture here.
Shiller lectures here.
Redleaf (Whitebox) lecture here.
Schwarzman (Blackstone) lecture here.
Compensation Scheme Masquerading as An Asset Class
From the article "Hedge Funds: Where Did That One-Star Fund Go?" (HT: EC)
Morningstar certainly selected a lively date to launch its initial batch of...
Two Interviews with Investment Titans
Dalio's Pure Alpha did 14% last year (although All-Weather got clobbered). Nice interview in Fortune mag - "Inside the World's Biggest Hedge...
More Research
Now that the book is (almost) out, I have some time to devote to some more research. I have a whole stack of ideas...
Timing the Nasdaq Composite
12-Month simple moving average on the Nasdaq Comp back to 1973. Very similar results as most of the other assets classes we have tested. ...
Investing for the Long Run
Nice chart from Global Financial Data.
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