LinkFest

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Kahneman and Taleb ---- Great post over on dshort focusing on serial correlation in market returns.  ---- Arnott on fundy indexing and vol as an asset class. ---- Why SPAC...

Global Asset Allocation Summit & Weekend Reading

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Anyone going to this conference next week?  I will be there Monday, and if you're there drop me a line.   Although I wish I...

A Simple Post on Gold

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This is going to be the most subjective and least quantitative post out of the 500 odd posts I have written.  I am not...

Foreign Listed Hedge Funds

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are trading at ridiculous discounts (ala closed-end funds in the US) right now.  Third Point is trading at a 30% discount to NAV (and...

Four Factors and Two Regimes – Performance in Up and Down Markets

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CXO summaries the paper "The Effect of Market Regimes on Style Allocation", by Manuel Ammann and Michael Verhofen: ...

World Beta is Moving!!

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After growing increasinly frustrated with Blogger, I have decided to move my blog over to the WordPress Platform.  Since someone is squatting on worldbeta.com...

Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha

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This is a great intro book to factor based stock screening - Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha by Richard Tortoriello. I would place Greenblatt's...

Being Right or Making Money

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This is one of the major problems I have with investing commentary (more here). There are so many blogs, reporters, and portfolio...

On the Nature and Origins of Trendfollowing & Social Investing Sites

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Covel has a nice article posted on his site by one of the original Turtles - "On the Nature and Origins of Trendfollowing". ...

Hedge Funds (Indexes) and FOFs – Who Needs Them?

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Will 2008 be remembered as the year that dealt a death blow to hedge fund of funds (FOFs) and hedge fund indexes? I...