Net Payout Yield and Dividends

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A reader emailed in asking about payout yield after my post the other day on the decline in companies reporting dividends (older post here). ...

Stocks and Markets as Mountain Ranges

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in this case it is the Lehman Range: (artist is Michael Najjar, HT: CC via Kottke)

A New Fed Paper

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that I am going to take for a spin over breakfast in the AM (HT: reader KJ) "Out of Sample Equity Premium Prediction:  Economic Fundamentals...

Fama: My Life in Finance

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A great read. Of particular interest to me was this statistic: "The percent of firms paying cash dividends falls from 66.5 in 1978 to 20.8...

Harvard & Yale Asset Allocations

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2009 is Yale's target allocation rather than actual allocation.

The Harvard and Yale Endowments 2009 Updates

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Yale 2009 Endowment Report Harvard 2009 Endowment Report On the last page Mendillo had these two rather odd quotes that seem, at least to me,...

Two

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of the six new research papers I've been working on are now finished. Question is, what to do with them? If anyone is going to...

The Value In Following The Smart Money

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My first article for Forbes was published about 10 days ago where I profiled how to piggyback Seth Klarman. The first stock we talked about...

The Value of Content SeekingAlpha Has Received For Free

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is somewhere between $2.8 million and $55.5 million.  I'll get to the math in a minute. I originally allowed SeekingAlpha to repost my content because...

Three Must Reads

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The Hidden Risks of Risk Parity Portfolios - Ben Inker GMO & Forgotten Lessons of 2008 - Seth Klarman's Annual Letter & Interview with James Montier - Simolean...