AQR Profile

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A lot of goofy quotes in here but I like this one: “No strategy is so good that it can’t have a bad year or...

Institutional Plan Sponsors Are Bad at Timing Too

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Paper from last year that I am just seeing: Absence of Value - Stewart et al Abstract Institutional plan sponsors are charged with investing over $10 trillion...

NYC Trip Next Week

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I will be in NYC next week - drop me a line if you want to meetup!

New Risk Parity Mutual Fund Launches

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AQR, who has been pretty innovative in launching a number of what I would call alternative beta funds, just launched a risk parity fund...

Links

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The Economy and the Stock Market - O'Shaughnessy ---- A number of sites/blogs have been updating their offering to a free/premium - congrats to the excellent CXO...

Traveling

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Just finished a great trip to Chicago and will be in NYC for the always fantastic Value Investing Congress coming up October 12-13.  (Although...

Gold Sentiment

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Klarman (who is long gold): "At our recent investment team retreat, virtually every speaker - many of the leading thinkers in the markets and in...

ETF and Portfolio Design Tools

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Lots of cool innovation going on in the online finance space.  A few interesting links: Asset Class Backtester The website also lists free sources for...

The Real Money Guessing Game – Yale Updates

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From a post back in July - I will update this when all the funds report. A number of real money funds report their fiscal...

Interview with Seth Klarman and Jason Zweig

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Here is a nice interview with Seth Klarman and Jason Zweig from the FAJ (at MarketFolly and PragCap). Klarman is not the best performing clone...