The Success Equation, Untangling Skill and Luck
We like to read around here – and just recently got done with one that has been on the wish list (it’s more like a… when the kids are quiet for 10 minutes and there’s not a client dinner or conference in town or presentation for a business deal – as time permits list, but […]
Bad Year for Commodities, Whether in ETFs or Futures
Here’s our monthly look at the various commodity ETFs and how they track a simple strategy of buying December futures and rolling them annually. Plus, a comparison to Ag Traders and an overall commodity index. Some Notes: Only 4 on the commodity contracts we’re tracking are positive on the year, suggesting that buying and holding […]
Articles You Could be Reading this Weekend
CBOE Taps Rate Concerns With Futures on Bond Volatility – (Bloomberg) Liquid alts suffer big asset drop; MainStay Marketfield takes biggest hit – (Investment News) Mark Rzepczynski (formerly of John Henry) Interview with Michael Covel – (Trend Following Radio) Buyer beware: Liquid alts are not created equal – (Investment News) Hurrah For Quitters – (Five […]
Alternative Links: Trend Following, Managed Futures, and CTAs
Trend Following: A New Anomaly: The Cross-Sectional Profitability of Technical Analysis – (Han, Yang, Zhou) How Trend Following at its core is quite simple – (Top Traders Unplugged) Predicting market direction is silly – (Michael Melissions) Performance: CTAs push on higher in October with more positive returns, says Newedge – (Hedgeweek) Despite Volatile October, North […]
How Endowed is your Endowment?
Vanguard has an interesting whitepaper out about how Endowments performance differs based on their size (sorry all those in the, “it’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean” camp… the large ones do much better), and there’s some interesting tidbits in it even though it’s a glorified ad for the type of low cost indexing Vanguard is known for. But instead of their normal tilt toward the retail investor, they’re targeting the endowment space – breaking down small, medium, and large endowments vs low cost index funds and concluding that small and mid size endowments shouldn’t try and replicate large endowments success – they should just do low cost index funds (otherwise known as talking your book).
First, some of their cool charts:
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