95% Cancer, 5% Alpha?

0
From the Financial Times:  "Assessing the performance of funds of hedge funds", B. Dewaele, H.Pirotte, N. Tuchschmid and E. Wallerstein: "Applying the FD procedure to...

Demographics and Some Uncomfortable Truths

0
I read this article on the plane en route to London.  PIMCO has been hinting at their recent work in the demographics space and...

Well That Was A Surprise…

0
I don't pretend to have the same preferences as my audience, and that is why I often ask questions and poll the readership.  If...

New Book

1
After viewing the responses to our last survey, we have decided to update a few of our white papers and expand upon them.  The...

Emerging Market Models

0
Nice post from my buddy Jake at Econompic Data on timing models in emerging markets...  

Bear Markets in the DJIA 1899-

2
I always look forward to reading the great work out of the folks at The Leuthold Group.  Here is a great chart from their...

New Books

0
A few new books on the bookshelf: Grand Pursuit - Sylvia Nasar The Inner Voice of Trading- Michael Martin Below is a great quote pulled from The...

Sentiment Update

0
I thought I would post a few charts for perspective from AAII recent updates.  Click to enlarge:   And a nice PPT slide from the good...

Sitting on the Valuation Mountaintop

4
Great new piece from the folks at RA - "King of the Mountain (PDF)".  It takes a look at how PE Ratios respond to...

New Curated Investment Research Offerings

1
I think there is room for more curation on the academinc/professional research space in investments.  A few sites have been working on it to...