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...

Investing Based on the Yield Curve – REITs Like it Steep

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Here is an old post  where we took at a look at investing based on the yield curve.  I updated the charts here with...

Paulson’s #2 – Paolo Pellegrini’s PSQR Fund

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Nice article about Paolo Pellegrini's PSQR Fund over on Prag Cap (via Altucher).  Paolo is featured heavily in the very good book The Greatest...

Links and a Long Short ETN Launch

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Is anyone going to Andrew Lo's presentation at the CFA Society here in Los Angeles next week?  If so come say hello. ---- Betting on the...

The Folly of Forecasting

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I was cleaning out some files and came across the fantastic James Montier PDF "The Seven Sins of Fund Management". (If you want the...

I Spent My Weekend

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trying to figure out what in the world Currensee, the new social network for currency traders, could possibly spend their $8mm venture round on. ...

Momentum Studies

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What academic study has the most historical data for momentum?  Most studies I see go back to the 1960s at the most. Good listing of...

Hedge Fund in a Box

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Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE) hitting new all time highs recently.

Global Rotation Strategies

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Below is an updated equity curve from the global rotation strategy in the book.  Trying to decide if this is going to be a...

Three Funds Someone Should Start

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Long time readers know that I am fantastic with coming up with great ideas but less so at monetizing them.  Anyways, here is an...