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Due to the recent IPO craze associated with ALIBABA, we received increased interest from investors wanting to learn more about Chinese stocks. To get a sense for [...]

WSJ recently published an interesting article named "The Self-Inflicted U.S. Brain Drain:" Every year, tens of thousands of disappointed tech workers and other professionals give [...]

It pays to be diversified! SPXT = S&P 500 ==> win NDDUEAFE = EAFE ==> Loss FNERTR = REIT ==> huge win SPGSSCITR = GSCI ==> huge loss [...]

They kicked me; they heckled me; they drug me out of bed at 4am... ...and all I told them was that market returns going forward [...]

I recently came across a few stories about "new" proposals by regulators. Here is the quote from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt: Additionally, Watt [...]

Our adventure started over 4 years ago as a 1-man band blogging about esoteric finance research (me) and has expanded into a business with 7 [...]

Mike has a cool concept going over at TheWholeStreet.com. I usually read this alongside AbnormalReturns.com  and then spend 1-2hrs a day reading various academic research websites, [...]

A professor buddy sent a link to an outstanding article that mentions a study where researchers study the performance of a rat's ability to learn how [...]

We were all chatting in the office today making fun of our own predictions and the predictions of others. The conversation quickly turned to the [...]

Tadas has a nice recap piece on the BIG news that Calpers is sending their hedge fund managers to the scrapyard. But why so sad [...]

People love to talk about the stock market. It's practically a law of human nature. What is the market telling us? Where is it going [...]

Been thinking a lot about risk and return these days. Even started skimming through Fama's old book "Foundations of Finance." The book is available for free: [...]

VIX is currently sitting at the lowest levels since all the way back to 2007, and market valuations are rich. The chart below highlights VIX [...]