From natural resources and hedge funds, to private equity, Barry Ritholtz and Michael Batnick discuss Ivy League endowments and why their returns continue to underwhelm.
Always Read the Footnotes!
Last week, I wrote about the endowments, and why they are shifting some of their alternative focus from Hedge Funds to Private Equity. I...
10 Wednesday AM Reads
My midweek morning train reads: • The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive: As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds...
Helping Farmers Adapt to Climate Change?
This is pretty amazing: “American farmers are reeling after extreme rains followed by a “bomb cyclone”— an explosive storm...
“Public options” versus Employee Benefits
Where Premiums for employer insurance is more than 10% of incomes. Source: Axios Yesterday I mentioned the 10 most...
10 Tuesday AM Reads
My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s private meetings with conservative pundits: The social-media...
MIB: Economists are so over
Out of the destruction of the Post-World War economies, began the rise of the economists. Beginning in the United States, then going...
Everything’s Free!
Dave Nadig, managing director of ETF.com, stops by The Compound to discuss how fee-free trading is changing the investment landscape with...
10 Monday AM Reads
My back-to-work, Rudy-free morning train reads: • Is the World Economy Sliding Into First Recession Since 2009? (Bloomberg) •...
10 most competitive economies in 2019
Source: World Economic Forum The annual Global Competitiveness Report has been released, and its chock full of great data...