Book Review: Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma by Andrew Karolyi
A recent IMF World Economic Outlook survey projected that in 2015-2016 advanced economies will grow at 2%-2.5% rate, while emerging and developing markets are growing [...]
Ben Carlson on Active Investing, Value Investing, and Garage Sales
Yesterday we posted a review on Ben's new book, A Wealth of Common Sense. We reached out to Ben and conducted a follow up Q&A. [...]
Book Review: A Wealth of Common Sense by Ben Carlson
Ben Carlson splashed onto the blog scene a few years ago with his hit website, aptly named, "A Wealth of Common Sense." My initial reaction was, "Oh [...]
Jim Simons Transcript: Quantitative Finance and Building a Firm
James Simons is an American academic and businessman who in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, which today is among the best known quantitative investment management funds [...]
Exploring Employee Satisfaction and Stock Performance
Recapping Older Ideas on Socially Responsible Investments Back in 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine that outlined his views [...]
Book Review – Competition Demystified: a Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
We've spent a lot of time these days thinking about how to identify economic moat, or a firm's ability to defend against competitive forces in [...]
Book Review — Global Asset Allocation: A Survey of the World’s Top Asset Allocation Strategies
Book Overview One of the most fundamental choices for any investor is their approach to strategic asset allocation. What are the major asset classes to [...]
Shedding light on Payment for Order Flow: Insights from Emmet Peppers
High frequent traders are armed with powerful weapons: mobs of PhD quants, super-computers, and sophisticated algorithms. HFT has provided wonderful liquidity benefits to the marketplace. Yet, [...]
Interactive Brokers Value-Investing Webinar: Starts at 12pm EST
Topic: Why Value Investing is Simple, but Not Easy Registration Link: https://interactivebrokers.webex.com/interactivebrokers/onstage/g.php? t=a&d=711901301&SourceId=aa Date and time: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (New [...]
Book Review — Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Book Overview Anyone involved in business has observed that certain products, services or ideas seem to catch on and become wildly popular. Others ideas fall [...]
Buffett and Hedge Funds Share a Trait: No Alpha
Aaron Seager, a portfolio manager at Arbor Hill Advisors, offered up the following charts showing alpha over the past 15 years for Warren Buffett and an [...]
Interview with a “Flash Boys” All-Star: Ronan Ryan from IEX
Here's the bottomline: As an investor, you've probably been helped by high-frequency-trading, but it is equally likely you've been SCREWED by high-frequency trading. As a [...]
Book Review — Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy to Fix LIBOR that Swindled Investors Out of Billions
Book Overview In today’s complex financial world, borrowing rates are all around us, implicit in everything from our credit cards to our mortgages. Many of these [...]
Insights on ETMFs and ETFs from an ETF Service Provider
Our firm mission is to empower investors through education. One area of the marketplace where education is lacking is in the ETF, or exchange-traded-fund arena. [...]
Global Economic Perspectives from a Pragmatic Capitalist
Cullen Roche, who runs the finance and economics blog, Pragmatic Capitalism, is the ultimate "top-down" investor, and recommends that investors think globally, rather than locally when [...]
Book Review: Pragmatic Capitalism
Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance Cullen Roche The book can be found here. Want to see all our book [...]
Insights from an ETF Strategist: Brad Thompson, CFA
We've been interviewing various movers and shakers in the industry to help everyone understand the "inside baseball" in financial services. Brad and I met last [...]
ETF Market Making–Very Cool Insider Insights
Have you ever wondered how ETF trading actually works? Most people think ETFs trade "just like stocks." These people are wrong. While there are similarities between individual [...]
Book Review: Dual Momentum Investing
The Momentum Investment Philosophy: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk Gary Antonacci The book can be found here. Want to see all our [...]
20 Quant Value Books @ Liquidation Prices
We've got a box of books (20 copies) in the office that we want to share with our readers at a discount. We posted them to Amazon.com [...]