Guide to the Markets

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Following on the heels of the awesome GIRY download a few posts back, here is a very cool PPT from JPMorgan: Guide to the Markets,...

Travel

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I will be in Australia the week of February 20th, as always if you are around feel free to drop me a line to...

ETF Guide for Investors

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Nice PDF from Morningstar on ETFs. Table of Contents Below: Introduction The ABCs of ETFs Choosing ETFs the Morningstar ETFInvestor Way An ETF Primer for Retirees...

2012 Global Investment Returns Sourcebook

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Get it while it's hot! (HT: Abnormal Returns) One of my top must reads of the year... (PS If you are a CSFB client you can...

Updated: How to Pick Mutual Funds: The Netflix Prize for Improving Morningstar’s Star Rankings

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Thought I would update this older post with a few new studies that take a look at active share, and illiquidity and momentum. While most mutual...

Long Vol and Short Vol

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Option selling has always been a fascination for me, and long time readers may recall a lot of the posts I used to do...

Volatility-Responsive Asset Allocation

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Fun paper from the good folks at Russell Research.  Although I would argue the volatility is an artifact of prices declining, and this could...

Shiller CAPE for the G8

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Most stock market valuation models are not that predictive in the short term.  However, value tends to work great on longer term timeframes.  We...

Sentiment Update

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For all the visual folks, source AAII:    

Permanent Portfolio ETF to Launch

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One of the trends in ETFland is launching funds that fall under the banner of what I call 'investable benchmarks'.  Depending on your worldview...