Weekend Reads - Nov 04, 2023

Determining the Optimal Benchmark for Funds; Bonds as Diversifiers Aren't Dead--Just Dormant; Is the 60/40 Portfolio a Good Investment Now?; Your Money, Your Brain, and War; and more...

• Determining the Optimal Benchmark for Funds (Finominal)

• Bonds as Diversifiers Aren't Dead--Just Dormant (Financial Advisor)

• Is the 60/40 Portfolio a Good Investment Now? (Morningstar)

• Your Money, Your Brain, and War (The Uncertainty of It All)

• The Risks of Missing Moat, Management, or Valuation (Flyover Stocks)

• Considerations When Implementing Alternative Investments in MultiAsset Class Portfolios (Fidelity)

• Beyond Risk Parity (Verdad)

• What's Wrong With Indian Agriculture? (📺 Amit Varma)

• Opportunities in Catastrophe Bonds (Amundi)

• Asset Allocation Isn’t Magic (Oblivious Investor)

• Sentiment Versus Fundamentals: The Current Case for EM over U.S. Equity (Acadian)

• Reproducing the Performance of a Financial Market Index (and more) (Portfolio Optimizer)

• How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (🎧 Freakonomics Radio)

• "Inside ValueQuest: Unraveling the Investment Blueprint" with Ravi Dharamshi (🎧 Stoic Talks)

• Constructing and Assessing Trading Strategies ft. Rob Carver (🎧 Top Traders Unplugged)

• How Will Ai Shape The Real Estate Investing Landscape? (Cohen & Steers)

• A Devil's Bargain: When Generating Income Undermines Investment Returns by Israelov and Nze Ndong (SSRN)

• Investment, Uncertainty, and U-Shaped Return Volatilities by Schneider (SSRN)