Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 12/24/18 through 12/28/18. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs.
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- Stock Returns Around New Year’s Day
Best guess is that any anomalous U.S. stock market strength around New Year’s Day will start the week before and end two trading days after the holiday, followed by a fade, but noise generally dominates. - Toys for Young (and Old) Investors?
Evidence indicates that LEGO sets may be an attractive alternative asset for investors with small allocations and very long investment horizons. - Unbiased Performance of Endowment Investments
Evidence indicates that non-profit endowments, even those of elite universities, do not outperform simple investing benchmarks. - Net Speculators Position as Futures Return Predictor
Evidence indicates that traders may be able to exploit net positions of speculators from COT reports to time commodity, currency and equity index futures contract series. - Managing Asset Class Exposures with Leveraged ETFs
Evidence suggests that using leveraged ETFs to achieve conventional asset class exposures may be attractive.