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Monday, January 9, 2017

The Asymmetry of Reaching for Yield at Low Spreads

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Bloomberg Gadfly's Lisa Abramowicz  (follow her on twitter here ) outlined in a recent piece The Credit Boom that Just Won't Die  th...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Using Absolute Momentum to Positively Skew Calendar Year Returns

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There are instances where I "borrow" an idea from someone (actually... most of my posts were at a minimum inspired by someone else...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Betting on Perfection

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To earn a decent return going forward, how reliant on multiple expansion are buy and hold investors in the S&P 500? Let's take a loo...
Monday, December 12, 2016

A Dynamic Approach to Factor Allocation

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ETF Trends (hat tip Josh ) showed the following "quilt" of large cap factor calendar year returns in the post  Low Volatility is ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Predicting Forward 60/40 Returns

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In a recent post,  Long-Term Bonds Behave More Like Stocks Than You Might Think ,  Lawrence  via Fortune Financial fame outlined: It shoul...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

A Framework for a Short VIX Allocation

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It has historically paid to be a seller of volatility for at least two reasons... 1) Volatility is typically overpriced relative to reali...
Monday, October 3, 2016

The Case for Put Writing in an Expensive Market

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Pensions and Investments wrote about the interest pension plans have shown in put writing (seemingly one of the more misunderstood investmen...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Off Point: The Case for Home Loans

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UPDATE: I had a nice discussion with Alex Rampell , partner at VC firm a16z, who provided me with a material detail that I missed that is b...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

How a Low VIX Can Remain an Expensive Hedge

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One of my favorite Twitter follows @LadyFOHF  shared the below scatter chart from Morgan Stanley that attempted to map areas of the global m...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

ETFs May Actually Make Weak Players Weaker

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Mike Mauboussin 's latest write up  Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors is a must read for investors (while his recent...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

What if Factors Rarely Matter?

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Back in December I wrote that It's Generally Smart to Avoid Credit Risk  outlining that more than 100% of credit's excess performanc...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Consolidated EconomPic Posts

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Bob Seawright of the great blog Above the Market , recently put together a  consolidated list of his past posts which was a great way to f...
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