April 19, 2013

GTAA Update

It has been four years since the last update to our 2006 white paper.  Below is an attached draft.  Since it is draft form, please do not distribute or forward along the email. Email me with any suggestions, questions, or […]
April 17, 2013

Fundy Improvement

Janiczek had a nice piece out last week that had a telling table.  It shows how much the S&P has improved on a number of fundamental metrics, but hasn’t budged much since 1999 on a price basis.  Just goes to […]
April 16, 2013

1%

The Butler, Philbrick, and Gordillo crew has been putting out some great research lately.  (And no I’m not just saying that since we did a white paper together:  Global CAPE Model Optimization.) From the paper: “Finally, at the bottom of […]
April 12, 2013

The Short Side of Long

Below we feature a new (to me) newsletter called The Short Side of Long.  Tiho writes the blog and new email newsletter, often featuring lots of charts, and in this case it was his series on Commitment of Trader’s (COT) Reports […]
April 10, 2013

Sector Valuations: One Buy, One Bubble?

We updated all of our CAPE series at quarter end on Mebane Faber Research.  There are no downloads in this piece as I included all of the charts in the body of the email. First up is the CAPE values […]
April 2, 2013

A Special Issue

One of the biggest benefits of subscribing to The Idea Farm is getting access to some institutional research that is impossible to access elsewhere.  Andrew Garthwaite is one of my must reads, and below is his 65 page Global Equity […]
March 31, 2013

Romping Stomping Emerging Bull

WisdomTree is out with a piece examining dividend yields and future emerging market equity returns.  Needless to say they are bullish! Below are a few quotes and a chart before the download: —- + The average performance of the MSCI […]
March 28, 2013

Tactical Global Markets

Below we take a look at research from Northington Dahlberg Research.  The research below is geared more to the technical traders out there.  Carson and Kirk examine over a dozen global macro markets on multiple time frames (and with a lot […]
March 26, 2013

The Big Four Economic Indicators

Doug Short produces on a consistent basis some of the best charts anywhere.  You can find his handywork on Advisor Perspectives, and this week’s piece is on the big four economic indicators.  (Although he does amazing work with stock market […]
March 22, 2013

Small Cap Hedge Fund Picks

A quick housekeeping note before today’s issue.  I don’t pretend to consume information the same way my readers do (I still don’t have a Kindle or iPad, though probably should).  I was chatting with a reader over breakfast and this […]
March 20, 2013

Dividend Signaling

There is a lot that people get wrong when it comes to income investing.  This is one reason we put together the Shareholder Yield book coming out in a few weeks, finally!  (For those that cannot wait a good review […]
March 17, 2013

Gold Fundamentals: Still Positive

Mr Boeckh, previously editor-in-chief of the Bank Credit Analyst, a monthly publication offering one of the most in depth macro-economic views of monetary conditions around the world, writes the Boeckh Investment Letter. The focus is on the long-term drivers of […]
March 14, 2013

Would the real Peter and Paul please stand up?

Dylan Grice has always been one of my favorite analysts (historians) out there.  He recently left SocGen (where you can find a coffee table-esque compilation of his work here) and landed at Edelweiss Holdings.  Edelweiss also publishes a piece ever so often, […]
March 12, 2013

The Charts That Matter

Not many fund companies have a head of technical analysis anymore, but they probably should.  Riccardo Ronco is a practitioner that has won numerous awards for his work at London based Aviate Global. Below is a chart that contains a […]
February 27, 2013

ETF Insider

ETF Database is a great website for all things ETF.  You can screen for ETFs by type, country, exposure, issuer, you name it.  Below are two free tools that are pretty cool: ETF Country Exposure Tool Mutual Fund To ETF […]