Weekend Reads - Feb 01, 2025

Can We Measure Soft Power?; The Jevons' Paradox; International Equity Returns: Looking Beneath the Surface; Sustainable Commodities Investing; and more...

• Can We Measure Soft Power? (Klement on Investing)

• The Jevons' Paradox: Will Increased Efficiency Lead to Increased Consumption? (The Grey Swan)

• International Equity Returns: Looking Beneath the Surface (Verus)

• Sustainable Commodities Investing (AQR)

• The New Currency is Attention (Of Dollars and Data)

• Even When Thematic Funds Arrive Early, Investors Come Unprofitably Late (Basis Pointing)

• 2025 Capital Markets Expectations (Meketa)

• Trump 2.0: The Deregulation Agenda – No New Rules? (Research Affiliates)

• Factor Investing Clearing the Air – Datamining and the Antidotes (5th Horizon Research Newsletter)

• Scaling Volatility - Not Just the Square Root Rule (Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views)

• Cliff Asness: Quant Investing, Market Inefficiency (🎧 Insightful Investor)

• Improving Industry Momentum with Sentiment Signals (QuantSeeker)

• Beyond the Fed Model: Dissecting Equity Valuation Trends (Enterprising Investor)

• Building an Intelligent Alpha ETF with ChatGPT | Doug Clinton (📺 Excess Returns)

• Jim Simons: Life and Philanthropy (📺 Simons Foundation)

• Perfect Recession Predictors by Diercks et al. (SSRN)

• Stagflationary Stock Returns by Knox and Timmer (SSRN)

• Factor Investing with Delays by Dickerson et al. (SSRN)