Cool New Lecture Site

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Check out Academic Earth - great site! (HT: RT & SD) Swensen lecture here. Shiller lectures here. Redleaf (Whitebox) lecture here. Schwarzman (Blackstone) lecture here. 

Off to the Races?

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I love this picture. . .  

Compensation Scheme Masquerading as An Asset Class

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From the article "Hedge Funds: Where Did That One-Star Fund Go?" (HT: EC) Morningstar certainly selected a lively date to launch its initial batch of...

Two Interviews with Investment Titans

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Dalio's Pure Alpha did 14% last year (although All-Weather got clobbered). Nice interview in Fortune mag - "Inside the World's Biggest Hedge...

More Research

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Now that the book is (almost) out, I have some time to devote to some more research.  I have a whole stack of ideas...

Timing the Nasdaq Composite

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12-Month simple moving average on the Nasdaq Comp back to 1973.  Very similar results as most of the other assets classes we have tested. ...

Investing for the Long Run

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Nice chart from Global Financial Data.   Right click and select "View Image" to enlarge.  

LinkFest

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Interview with Swensen here, and 2008 update (finally) for the Yale Endowment 2008 fiscal year (ending June 30th, 2008).  ---- Lenny Dykstra sounds like a complete...

First Copy of the Book Arrived

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Looks great, although I haven't had the chance to flip through it yet.  Should be in stores by the end of the month (finally)...

Jim Cramer on The Daily Show

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Ha, you know I agree... STEWART: That would be great, but it's not just you. It's larger forces at work. It is this idea that...