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Wednesday links: portfolio entropy

Abnormal Returns

Strategy A big regime shift has happened in the economy and financial markets. investmenttalk.co) Finance Poor recent performance has put the IPO market back on ice. ritholtz.com) Rapid company growth comes with its own risks. onveston.substack.com) Not all share buybacks are created equal.

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Wednesday links: sub-optimal portfolios

Abnormal Returns

abnormalreturns.com) Why rough edges remain in financial markets: people. abnormalreturns.com) Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? (abnormalreturns.com) Research links: an extremely long horizon. abnormalreturns.com) Spending does more than change your bank balance.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

(awealthofcommonsense.com) Which bonds prove as the best portfolio diversifier? wsj.com) Gary Stevenson’s book “The Trading Game” helps explain the past twenty years in the financial markets. morningstar.com) The equity risk premium is skimpy at the moment. capitalspectator.com) What will it take for small caps to outperform?

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Top clicks this week A big regime shift has happened in the economy and financial markets. ritholtz.com) The bond market bear market is pretty epic. wired.com) Bond bear markets are different than stock bear markets. awealthofcommonsense.com) Where the valuation of the 60/40 portfolio stands.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

topdowncharts.substack.com) Six things that don't change in financial markets including the attraction of 'shiny objects.' safalniveshak.com) The markets were bad in 2022, but things could always be worse. humbledollar.com) Three ways to simplify your portfolio in 2023.

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MiB: Jon McAuliffe, the Voleon Group

The Big Picture

McAuliffe has a unique track record of successful innovation applying statistical methods to real-life prediction problems, particularly in the financial markets. We discuss his career in machine learning, from Amazon’s recommendation engine to using AI to manage portfolios.

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How Do Active Managers Invest Their Own Money?

The Big Picture

The researchers describe financial markets as “slowly evolving communities of practice whose habits, routines and ways of knowing can be difficult to shift, even when faced with overwhelming evidence that what they are doing doesn’t work most of the time.”