20%+ Returns? Forgetaboutit
I love this article from my friend Wes at Empirical Finance: Mission Impossible: beating the market over long periods of time.
Summary Findings
Before I even...
Great Advice on Book Writing
“What do you wish you’d known about the process of writing a book that you didn’t know before you did it?”
Fun article for my writer...
Lucky History
From Myhrvold at Bloomy:
None of these catastrophes came entirely out of the blue. To the contrary, geologic history tells us that we’ve actually gotten...
Ackman Considering Launching a Closed-End Fund
There is news out recently that Bill Ackman wants to launch a public fund. We've been writing about Ackman for years including a 2007...
Euromoney Acquires Ned Davis for $112mln
Congrats to everyone at my favorite institutional research shop on the recent news to be acquired by Euromoney. Lets hope nothing changes and the...
Taleb & Spitznagel Launching Black Swan ETF
From Forbes magazine:
"In July Universa intends to tap the financial adviser market by offering its own black swan ETF. The fund will mimic some...
New White Paper on Pension Funds
I'm finally ready to start cranking out these papers and my goal is to get out six more by year end. I am also...
IndexUniverse Webinar Tomorrow
I'm doing an IndexUniverse webinar tomorrow, swing by and come ask some questions!
6/14/2011 2PM Eastern
M* gets Predictive
This is an interesting note from Morningstar on how their analysts are going to start rating funds including qualitative measures:
The new ratings, which will...
