Table of Contents
Key Concepts: Arbitrage, Risk Arbitrage and the Favorite-Longshot Bias; The Bond Stock Earnings Yield Differential Model; Investor Camps; Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Investment Agglomerations: Average Hedge Funds and Their Evaluation; Incentives and Risk Taking in Hedge Funds; Evaluating Superior Hedge Funds; Investment in Own-Company Stock; Cutting Through the Hype on Sovereign Wealth Funds; A New Age for Liquidity; Government Owned Pensions: Asset Allocation and Governance Issues; Update on Yale's Approach to Endowment Investing; A Risk Arbitrage Convergence Trade: The Nikkei Put Warrant Market of 1989-90; Kelly Capital Growth Investing; InnoALM, the Innovest Austrian Pension Fund Financial Planning Model; Seasonal Effects and Other Anomalies: Investing in the January Turn-of-the-Year Effect with Index Futures; The January Barometer; Sell-in-May-and-Go-Away and the Effect of the Fed; 60-40 Pension Fund Mixes and Presidential Party Effects; Volatility, Correlation and Liquidity: Thoughts on the VIX Fear Index; Changing Correlations: Rising VIX and Violent Market Moves; Can We Predict Stock Market Crashes?: Stock Market Crashes in 2006-2009: Were We Able to Predict Them?; Three Mini Crashes in US and World Equity Markets; What Signals Worked and What Did Not, 1980-2009; What Signals Worked and What Did Not, 1980-2009, Part II; What Signals Worked and What Did Not, 1980-2009, Part III; How to Lose Money in Derivatives and Examples of Those Who Did; Bubbles and Debt: Understanding the Financial Markets in the Subprime Era: The 2007/9 Crisis; Bubbles; China: Navigating the Olympic Risks; Turkey's Juggling Act: Can It Live Up to Potential?; Testing Resiliency: Protest and Natural Disasters; It's a Gas, Gas, Gas!; Thoughts on the Current Market Environment, Risks and Returns; What's Wrong with The US?; Investing Around the World; Investing and Arbitrage in NFL Football and Horse Racing: Blunder or Correct Decision? The Belichick Decision to Go for It on 4th Down; The 2010 and 2011 Super Bowls and the Elo Ranking System; Risk Arbitrage in the NFL 2012 Playoffs and the Super Bowl; The One That Got Away: The Hitable $2 Million Pick 6 at the Breeders' Cup; Two Super Horses; Farewell to the Queen and to the Princess of US Thoroughbred Racing; The Dr Z Place and Show Racetrack Betting Systems Past and Present.