Weekend Reads - Feb 15, 2025

Quick Commerce and the Demand for Instant Gratification; When the Incentives Change, I Change My Mind; How Much Should We Get Paid for Skew Risk?; US Exceptionalism and Changes Abroad; and more...

• Quick Commerce and the Demand for Instant Gratification (TheGreySwan)

• When the Incentives Change, I Change My Mind (Behavioural Investment)

• How Much Should We Get Paid for Skew Risk? Not as Much as You Think! (This Blog is Systematic)

• US Exceptionalism and Changes Abroad (Verdad)

• Concentration & Correction – What to Do Next (Goldman Sachs)

• The State of Video Gaming in 2025 (Epyllion)

• Leveraged ETF Investors Scored Gains Last Year. They Probably Also Left Billions on the Table. (Basis Pointing)

• Momentum Strategies: Profitability, Predictability, and Risk Management (Relative Value Arbitrage)

• Risk Attitudes Differ Across Countries (Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views)

• Children are Bad for Your Career, unless You are a Man (Klement on Investing)

• The U.S. Commercial Real Estate Investable Universe (Clarion Partners)

• The State of AI, and AI in Alternative Investments with Mohammad Rasouli of AIx2 (📺 RCM Alternatives)

• TSMC Founder Morris Chang (🎧 Acquired)

• Dr Ernest Chan - The Breakthrough Uses of Machine Learning in Risk Management (🎧 The Algorithmic Advantage)

• Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Book (Quantamental Investing)

• The Mathematics of Portfolio Return: Simple Return, Money-Weighted Return and Time-Weighted Return (Portfolio Optimizer)

• A Study on Volatility in Stock Market (NSE) based on Select Sectoral Indices during Union Budget Period of India by Sankararaman et al. (SSRN)

• A Study on Performance of Financial and Technology Sectors in Mutual Funds by Sankararaman and Ragothaman (SSRN)