Reading & Traveling

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In the 1% chance I have readers in either Telluride or Moab (or even less likely, along the way), drop me a line if...

Cambria Global Tactical ETF

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If you didn't see the press release, we are excited to announce that Cambria is filing to launch an actively managed global tactical asset...

Drawdowns

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For those who are not familiar (according to the comments on the last post there are quite a few) with drawdowns, below is a...

Bond Drawdowns

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I did a post a year ago on the largest drawdown ever for US long term bonds.  Well, that has now been exceed with...

Raptor Global Re-Launch (Old Tudor Equity Fund)

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Jim Pallotta is getting ready to re-launch Raptor Global in July.  The fund once hit $11 billion and had returns of 14% over 15...

Chicago (next week) & Malware

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For those that thought I was going crazy for mentioning I was getting ready for a trip to Chicago next last Monday, my apologies. I...

The Costs of Managing Buy and Hold Portfolios, or, Why Pay for Beta (at all)?

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I was having dinner with a RIA in Malibu (David Kreinces of ETFPM) a couple weeks ago when the topic of fees came up. ...

Shiller P/E Ratios and 10Yr Annualized Real Returns

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I was playing around with the data over on Shiller's website the other day and thought I would post a few of the charts. ...

Country Mean Reversion

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I've written a bunch about mean reversion, most recently in May but also in my book.  One strategy is to look for asset classes...

Airplane Reads

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Some airplane reads: Sovereign Risk: Beyond the Numbers - CreditSuisse ---- Buy Write or Put Write:  An Active Portfolio to Strike it Right - Yang ---- The Value of...