This Month in Charts

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Thompson has a great site where they do a monthly chart summary.  Check it out:    

Reading

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A few books on the way and/or on my shelf:   What's Behind the Numbers?:  A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in...

1% in an 8% World

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Every year I do a table that updates endowment and pension returns over the year prior.  Since most funds fiscal year ends June 30th,...

The Holy Grail Quant Screen

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From my buddy Wes at Turnkey Analyst - four blog posts that give a sneak look at his upcoming book (I'll update as they come out): This...

Travel: Livingston & Chicago

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I'm headed to Livingston, Montana this weekend to go flyfishing with the Fabers, and then off to Chicago early next week for meetings and...

The Coming Dividend Tax Hike

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I was going to make the below an issue of The Idea Farm, but there is so much content I want to pass along...

Travel: Newport Beach

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I'm driving down to Newport Beach today for the Index Universe conference tomorrow.  Drop me a line if you're around!

A Match Made in Heaven

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Revisiting Kat's Managed Futures and Hedge Funds: A Match Made in Heaven From the paper: "The benefits of allocating to alternatives with a sizable percentage allocated...

Macro Pessimism, Micro Optimism (Part II)

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Back in June we did a blog on some of the most interesting new companies being run by brilliant entrepreneurs (also older, lifestyle post here). ...

The 9 Hedge Funds That Really Like Apple (AAPL)

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Apple is up about 74% in 2012, which is not bad considering that performance follows years of 26%,  53%, and 147% the prior three...