10 Principles for Black-Swan proofing the world. I like #3 – shouldn’t the government advisors be Dalio, Grantham, Taleb, Rogers, and Faber (Marc not Meb)?
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Tragically the investment blogosphere has lost one of the best in Greg Newton. A nice tribute from Felix Salmon.
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The current median dividend yield for Dow 30 stocks is about 3.5% while the median net payout yield ($ spend on dividends + $ spent on buybacks – $ for share issues) is about 8.3%. This is why, since 1982, dividends just don’t matter as much as they used to. . .
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Google books has a preview of my new book (and a review from dShort here).
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Obama using behavioral psych & the Consortium of Behavioral Scientists .
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Geneoeconomics!
Is your investing risk tolerance in your DNA?
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Buying new highs in bear markets can be problematic.
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Report on the Ontario’s Teacher’s Pension Fund
Not another LinkFest. From the last one, I downloaded the demo of Crayon Physics, my daughter got addicted and insisted I buy the full game, and now she won't do anything else. Barely has time to talk to me. Neglecting her chores, her homework, her friends.
It's like crack for 8-year-olds.
lol not much for her in this one. . .
>>The current median dividend yield for Dow 30 stocks is about 3.5% while the median net payout yield ($ spend on dividends + $ spent on buybacks – $ for share issues) is about 8.3%. This is why, since 1982, dividends just don’t matter as much as they used to. . .<<
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To your knowledge, has anyone generated a graph showing the fluctuation in the median net payout yield for the Dow and/or S&P over, say, the past 20, 30, 50 years? Would be worthwhile, perhaps.
You might be able to pull it out from here (page 879) or email the authors:
http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~mrrobert/publ...
faber and rogers? seriously, meb, you must be joking. might as well include cramer.
Read review of your Ivy book. Hope you sell so many it'll have to be reprinted. Then you can add a chapter on how they went wrong during the last year.
Read review of your Ivy book. Hope you sell so many it'll have to be reprinted. Then you can add a chapter on how they went wrong during the last year.