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Friday links: volatility clusters
StrategyStock market volatility clusters. (awealthofcommonsense.com)A look back at the seven sins of active fund management. (lar...
Saturday links: protecting expensive ideas
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
MiB: Jason Wenk, Altruist founder and CEO
This week, I speak with Jason Wenk, founder and CEO of Altruist, a modern custodian for independent financial advisors. We d...
Overvalued, Bubble, or Revolution?
Perhaps the question I hear asked most often is: “Are we in a bubble?” and “What’s happening with this artificial intelligence t...
Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 18–19)
Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that Charl...
What LLMs Get Wrong About Our Direct Indexing
We recently asked an LLM (a large language model) a question we know our clients have from time to time: Which is better, investin...
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LPL Financial 2026 Midyear Outlook: The Market Observat...
In the LPL Financial 2026 Midyear Outlook edition of the Market Observatory, Chris and Sam discuss what's ahead for investors with...
‘I am at a loss’: My brother is dying. We are not close...
“He is now no longer able to think clearly or communicate his wishes.”
Bad week for ‘the ants’ as ripple effects of Korean cra...
It was a bad week for “the ants,” as South Korea’s army of retail traders are known colloquially. 1.2 million of them were clobber...
Silently freaking out about retirement? Why it may not ...
Amid all the gloom and doom, there are ways to change the math in your favor.
Retail investors had been outperforming the market sinc...
Retail investors had a pretty strong two-month stretch when they were outperforming the broader market by as much as 10 percentage...
SpaceX postponed a crucial launch — now its stock is se...
Shares in SpaceX declined about 4% in premarket trading on Friday after aborted mission.
‘Respect is important’: If my financial adviser said, ‘...
“I met with a financial representative who was not aware that AT&T was the shortened form of American Telephone and Telegraph.”
As semiconductor stocks slump, one AI-adjacent sector i...
Another way to exploit the AI evolution is available for investors.
Ranch dressing and stuffed raccoons: Some of the World ...
As the World Cup wraps up, the off-field battle for eyeballs, ad dollars and viral fame has already crowned some champions
The market may be headed for a 40% correction, warns th...
Ted Oakley of Oxbow Advisors sees a market that is “not normal,” with investors locked into the S&P 500 that is not giving them a ...
Airbnb co-founder says his X account was hacked as he d...
Airbnb founder and CEO has deleted comments about tokenization that were posted to his account.
Longform links: detecting AI errors
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can chec...