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The below graphic is one reason we launched two private funds over 6 months ago. I couldn’t offer a leveraged version of our tactical system in good consience with most brokers. The only one that is even remotely reasonable is Interactive Brokers (we don’t use them currently). ...
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Retail Industry
As a follow up to our earlier post “ Let’s Talk About Professional Funds “, here is a great graphic from the guys at BlackStar showing the unsustainability of a Sharpe Ratio over 1 for longer than short periods of time (and this is for CTAs that still exist!!) :
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mebanefaber.com - 2 days ago
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Morningstar recently did an article about their nominees
for fund manager of the decade. They listed the...
five managers below (although Heebner (CGMFX) and Pilara (RSPFX) are strange and notable exceptions). Their criteria is: “The Manager ...
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Fund Manager of the Decade….Seth Klarman?
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Abnormal Returns
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Since yours truly is speaking at this web conference next week, Forbes agreed to let my readers register for free with my code ($75 normally). Some good other speakers on their including Hanlon and Pottruck (and if you’re an advisor you receive continuing ed credits too).
Sign up for ...
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mebanefaber.com - 2 days ago
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It is either Short the Dollar, Long Risk
(Equities, Real Estate, Commodities, Risky Bonds), Short US Govt...
Bonds or Long the Dollar, Short Risk (Equities, Real Estate, Commodities, Risky Bonds), Long US Govt Bonds Take your pick, each day has ...
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There is Only One Trade On Now
I’m doing my best to get my feet wet designing and sending out a monthly email newsletter.
You can view the first version that went out tonight here , and you can also sign up here .
Let me know your suggestions!
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mebanefaber.com - 6 days ago
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Cool new equity modeling site . —- Lots
of new shareholder letters on Hedge Fund Letters ....
—- Timothy Sykes launches Investimonials . I always thought there was a huge need for a Brightscope style offering for RIAs and brokers ...
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4 New Websites
Dubai trying to ruin a perfectly nice Thanksgiving . Pics on the amazing amount of construction below:
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Happy Thanksgiving to all the World Beta readers. Below are some truly spectacular photos from the National Geographic Photography Contest to lead you into the long wknd (I mean, no one works Friday do they?)…
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I have no problem with negative book reviews, but book reviews where they clearly did not read the book (and still took time to criticize it) drive me nuts. If you read the entire book, go leave a review! (1-5 stars doesn’t matter to me as long as you read it.)
The most recent review on ...
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mebanefaber.com - 12 days ago
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I spend a lot of time talking about
our industry (and all the warts and snake-oil that...
is sold) with the boys at BlackStar Funds . Below is a summary of a back and forth where we discuss survivor bias, as well as just how rare a Sharpe Ratio of 1 is ...
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Let’s Talk About Professional Funds
…let a NYTimes bestseller convince you otherwise (HT: Sea):
“If I published only one book a year, and it did as well as this one, my net would be only around $2500.00 over the income level considered to be the US poverty threshhold.”
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Don’t have much to ...
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Cardinal Health
Monsanto
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Netflix
…or you can just head over to the Tiger Cubs clone on AlphaClone . Gotta love that NC twang (mine came back for about a week when I was home, but gone mostly now).
Great videos.
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NACCO Industries, Inc.
This is an update we do every once in awhile that lists some of the the alternative mutual funds and ETF/ETNs. Most really fail to deliver any value, but a few do a good job. I long ago gave up talking about the foreign listed hedge funds, there didn’t seem to be much interest.
We had ...
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Eaton Corporation
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New site came across my radar: HedgeHogs .
Reminds me of Albourne Village …
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Social Democrats
I have a full hour to yap at the upcoming Forbes i-Conference on December 9th. Resigster here for free and come ask me some questions!
Agenda here .
Interesting title they chose for my speech!
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mebanefaber.com - 16 days ago
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What is the key to becoming a popular
investment blogger? Post A LOT I wanted to take...
a look at the top 50 or so investment bloggers, and see if there is any correlation between number of investment posts and traffic to the site. (The end of ...
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The #1 Key to Investment Blogging
