What can I say?
Devesh, who worked as a high-level professional in the options industry, begins a two-part series of options (in general) and options as an OEF/ETF portfolio tool. The work arose from a request by an MFO reader and accelerated as Devesh discovered the relentless flow of assets moving in that direction.
Lynn pokes around in an area that he's paid relatively light attention to, the world of active ETFs, and comes away sort of impressed, I think.
Shadow digs through the corpses and the industry's other bits for us.
I spend a little space making a contrarian observation - perhaps it's time to start paying attention to GMO's projections again- and offer a half dozen strategies (and a dozen funds) that might help investors navigate a world in which they are, for the first time since about 2009, quite right.
In reviewing the funds in registration as the SEC this month, I was struck by the ongoing interest in launching "disciplined" and "disruptive" funds. Since they seemed to represent very different ways of thinking, I decided to investigate how well discipline and disruptiveness have played out. Hmmm ... let's say that over the past three years, it's been a pretty one-sided debate in terms of performance, if not of cash flow.
Berkshire Hathaway takes up a fair slice of the publisher's letter. I was touched by Buffett's encomium of Munger; it was less "he was my friend" and more "he made more of a difference than you could imagine." Buffett, sincerely I suspect, describes Munger as Berkshire Hathaway's architect while he, Buffett, got the plaudits but was mostly its general contractor. It was a thoughtful, adamant essay. Berkshire also played a role in a billion dollar gift to a small medical college, a far better use of money than the impulse to give it to Harvard. (I growl just a bit there.)
Hope your find nuggets at the least,
David
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