This week’s Idea Farm links to a couple research sources I don’t hear much about, but are high on my reading list – aiCIO and Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd. We are pairing the two this week since aiCIO has a profile piece […]
Back when I was giving more talks on global tactical asset allocation I would hand out some hyper-inflated currencies as a reward for guessing the correct answer to a few questions during the talk. You can buy them on eBay […]
This week’s piece comes from a relatively new newsletter, but from the first few issues, it looks like a good one. The Macro Trader focuses on a lot of topics, but one of the nice features is it often includes […]
I remember reading Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, Third Edition back in college for a class on Security Analysis. The world of forensic accounting fascinated me – and one project was to see how […]
There are a few shops that I consider to be absolute must reads for everything they publish. Research Affiliates, GMO, and Leuthold are a few such shops we have featured on The Idea Farm, and this month’s research note by […]
I’m taking the red-eye to Colombia tonite, so I have printed out a big stack of papers for the plane. I am super excited to be reading probably my favorite update of the year, the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns […]
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Standard Life manages over $100billion and has been around since 1825 (at least the parent company). I’ve never been to Scotland, but supposedly that’s where my name derives from – Mebane is Southern (US), derived from Scottish (McBain […]
I’ve featured Eric Crittenden and Cole Wilcox a number of times on the blog over the years with their previous firm, Blackstar. They have changed the name to Longboard (which being a rather poor but aspiring surfer I like), and […]
We took a deep dive into how the top universities managed their endowments in our book The Ivy Portfolio. Hallmarks of the endowment style include a true global focus, a heavy weighting to equity like assets, and active management in asset […]
It is really, really difficult to stay abreast of all of the white papers and academic papers that come out on a daily basis. There used to be a service called Alpha Letters (not sure what happened to it) that […]
I’m sure many of you already have Bloomberg terminals on your desk, and therefore likely already receive their Bloomberg Brief. For those that don’t want to shell out over $20k for a terminal, here is a nice end of year […]
Most of you are likely already familiar with John Hussman. His weekly commentary is a must read of economic and market analysis that he has been writing since 1988. Below is a recent piece that constructs a multi-factor model for […]
Before we get into this week’s issue, I wanted to direct readers to a post I did on my blog on profit margins. It has links to pieces by Whitebox’s Redleaf , GMO’s Montier, Siegel, and Hussman. A fun read with […]
Note: I’m upgrading the technology we use to send out our emails. If you don’t want to receive The Idea Farm emails, please click ‘unsubscribe’ below. I was at a conference in 2012 (I can’t remember which, although it was in LA), […]
Since we have profiled Grant’s Interest Rate Observer before, I’m not going to do an intro and excerpt, just straight to the issue. Enjoy! —- Download the PDF here: Calm Before the Storm http://www.grantspub.com About Grant’s: Grant’s Interest Rate Observer […]