$100k Paper Competition
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
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
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
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
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.)
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
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
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)
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?
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...