$100k Paper Competition

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In much the same vein as the $10k NAAIM Wagner Award, AQR is offering a $100k prize for a research paper competition. World Beta...

Research and Publishing

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Right now I get most of my ideas out through a few channels, namely: Twitter - for (very) short comments and links (follow @MebFaber). Blog -...

Two of the Best Months for Bonds, Ever

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August and September are turning out to be two of the top ten best months for the long bond.  Ever.  Both had double digit...

World’s First CTA ETF

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I got excited when I saw this headline run across my screen, especially right after our post on ETFs people want to see.  Unfortunately,...

New ETF Suggestions

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I got a lot of interesting ETF suggestions from readers over the weekend and this week.  Below is a list of some of the...

Endowment Fund Performance (cont.)

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As usual, I'll update performance for some of the endowments as the numbers come in.  Below is an update from an earlier post (endowment...

More Fee Absurdity

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This is a nice post by a newly minted mutual fund manager.  Quint touches on the benefits and drawbacks of launching a new fund...

Barr Rosenberg Banned from Securities Industry for Life

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I mentioned this a few times on Twitter (often I'll post short reads and links on there that never make it to the blog.)...

The Genomic Revolution (Ten Years Later)

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Once upon a time I was a grad student at Johns Hopkins while working as a biotech equity analyst. Anyways, hard to watch this and...

What ETFs are Missing?

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Readers of WB likely saw our annoucement last week : Cambria Files to Launch its Own ETFs. While we have a few great ideas in the...