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Weekend Reads for Investors: Summer Reading Edition

Jason Voss, CFA, shares his choices for Weekend Reads for Investors. Included among his selections are an update on a classic game theory problem, a surprising story about a dealer of Japanese government bonds, and an exploration of quantum physics in strange places.

Weekend Reads for Global Investors: Most Popular Links of 2014

This is the last Weekend Reads for Global Investors of the year. It seems a perfect time to look back and see what our readers have liked the most among the myriad links curated. I've grouped the top 11 links (the last two were a tie) around three major themes.

Bonds = Risks

Ever since the bottom of the stock market, if not before, individual investors and many institutional investors have been adding to their bond holdings at a much faster rate than their appreciating equity holdings. While the rush is understandable for those who suffered equity losses by selling in the decline or seeing their wealth on paper shrink, I nevertheless find any stampede a bit scary.

Weekend Reads for Investors: Diverge From the Herd

Oaktree Capital’s founder and chairman Howard Marks publishes periodic memos that are widely considered “must reads” for those in the investment industry, and his latest missive should be no exception. In ” READ MORE ›

Linkfest: SAC settlement; Fed pivot to dovish stance? Financial mistakes women make; The ‘Bartiromo Effect’

Today’s most shared: Did Steve Cohen buy off the Feds? … Financial mistakes women make… Fed economists suggest new Evans rule target of 6% unemployment… New bank rules may pressure Italian deficit sustainability… Bill Gross loses largest fund title… READ MORE ›

Linkfest: Greek bounce; German FX policy blasted; Bubbles, bears and tribes

Today’s most shared: Greece stock market tops performance league tables… Bill Gross on taxing the 1%… US, Italy fault euro exchange rate. German beggar-thy-neighbor policy? … Bears in short supply as story stocks build tribes… READ MORE ›

Linkfest: Bill Gross on QE; Meredith Whitney draws jeers; Effect of debt on growth found modest

Linkfest.com finds today’s top headlines by following the best ‘curators’ on the Web and on Twitter, and by your votes and social media shares – pick the most important stories you think should appear by voting READ MORE ›

Linkfest: Killing the Census messenger; Bill Gross fears more haircuts; Fed seen slowing QE; HFTs exploit loophole

Linkfest.com finds today’s top headlines by following the best ‘curators’ on the Web and on Twitter, and by your votes and social media shares – pick the most important stories you think should appear by voting READ MORE ›