Brain Pickings
I've been doing my best to try and crank out of a few new papers this summer, slow going as usual. It doesn't help...
Real Money Funds Face a High Hurdle This Year
Funds that have a fiscal year ending June 30th are going to face a high return hurdle:
60/40: 18.33%
ENDW: 24.27%
(Equal weighted 5 asset classes: US...
Dividend Resources
What is your favorite book/paper/website/newsletter on dividends?
Trying to put some research together and wanted to cover all the bases before we tossed it up...
Regime Change
One of the most interesting areas of research to me is the analysis of how various macro environments affect asset class returns. We have...
Percent Accruals
Nice article on a slightly different way of measuring accruals.
Forbes article: Cash Doesn't Lie.
The 20% Club
In a year where are lot of hedge funds are struggling, what hedge funds are getting it right? Below are a few funds whose...
20%+ Returns? Forgetaboutit
I love this article from my friend Wes at Empirical Finance: Mission Impossible: beating the market over long periods of time.
Summary Findings
Before I even...
Great Advice on Book Writing
“What do you wish you’d known about the process of writing a book that you didn’t know before you did it?”
Fun article for my writer...
Lucky History
From Myhrvold at Bloomy:
None of these catastrophes came entirely out of the blue. To the contrary, geologic history tells us that we’ve actually gotten...
