Harvard Endowment 2008 Results
Estimates for returns for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2008 are around 7-9%. Pretty impressive considering stocks were down more than -10%...
Alpha Persistence & A Simple Momentum System For Beating the Market
Alpha persistence in long short hedge funds. This study gives a lot of support to the upcoming AlphaClone software launch.This is similar to...
150th Anniversary of "On the Origin of Species"
The Genius of Charles Darwin
Episode One here
Weekend Linkfest
From Bespoke - the second worst month for commodities ever.If you remember from this earlier post, after an asset class takes a big dump...
WikiInvest Embedable Stock Chats
Not bad. You can click, drag, pan, and zoom all without a page refresh.Here is one for GOOG:http://charts.wikinvest.com/wikinvest/wikichart/javascript/EmbedChart.jshttp://www.wikinvest.com/common/javascript/resource.jshttp://charts.wikinvest.com/WikiChartMini.swf
It is too bad Meb (Keflezighi) will not be competing in the 2008 Olympics…
Silver medalist in 2004.http://www.runmeb.com/(Picture from an old cover of RunnersWorld)
Speaking of Volatility…
a fairly moderate earthquake here in LA of 5.8. Since the Richter scale goes exponential (a 6 is 10 times worse than a...
