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Just a few years ago, if you read financial news at all, it was impossible to avoid headlines about Cathy Wood’s ARK Innovation fund. The fund’s performance was off the charts. What happened next is a story we’ve seen before, over and over: dollars pour into the fund, as investors don’t want to miss out, […]
Morningstar recently released the latest edition of their Mind the Gap research. Once again, “allocation” funds (e.g., balanced funds, target-date funds, LifeStrategy funds) had the smallest gap (i.e., best investor returns relative to reported performance figures). Investors tend to just buy them and leave them alone, which is generally the best strategy. And again “sector” […]
In 2017, a paper by Hendrik Bessembinder produced what, to me, was (and still is) the most surprising investing factoid I’d ever read: the best-performing 4% percent of stocks explain the entire equity risk premium since 1926, as other stocks collectively earned no more than Treasury bills. And more than half of stocks delivered negative […]
News Read this post in other languages: This special edition of the Kotlin Roundup is dedicated exclusively to KotlinConf 2024. At the opening keynote, Egor Tolstoy, Michail Zarečenskij, Ekaterina Petrova, Sebastian Aigner, Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, and Svetlana Isakova announced a plethora of exciting updates, addressing JetBrains’ recent work on the Kotlin language. Meanwhile, our guest keynote […]
We are rounding up some of our favorite Fall throwbacks. This also means Halloween is around the corner and it’s time to start costume brainstorming – any suggestions? In the meantime, here are a few of our favorite DIYs to start your Fall Checklist! Rainbow Pumpkin Centerpiece – an OHD classic! Ombre Leaves Backdrop – […]