Comments on: Esquire’s investment advice http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/10/esquires-investment-advice/ A slice of lime in the soda Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mbmdan http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/10/esquires-investment-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-24237 mbmdan Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:36:45 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2551#comment-24237 Hi, just wanted to say I attended this conference last year, and found it by far the best of about 8 conferences that I attended in the field. Full of professional insight based on testing by experts that knew what they were talking about. I would certainly go again and recommend it to anyone operating in this field. artho@ <a href="http://www.electroniccigarettetavern.com">electronic cigarette</a> Hi, just wanted to say I attended this conference last year, and found it by far the best of about 8 conferences that I attended in the field. Full of professional insight based on testing by experts that knew what they were talking about. I would certainly go again and recommend it to anyone operating in this field.
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]]> By: pefrase http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/10/esquires-investment-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-11948 pefrase Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:49:33 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2551#comment-11948 Wow, Ken Kurson is still around? Years ago, there was a vicious article about him in the Baffler, which is highly recommended. Apparently he was around the Chicago indie-rock scene before getting his financial snake-oil business started as a hip, Gen-X financial consultant during the dotcom bubble. Wow, Ken Kurson is still around? Years ago, there was a vicious article about him in the Baffler, which is highly recommended. Apparently he was around the Chicago indie-rock scene before getting his financial snake-oil business started as a hip, Gen-X financial consultant during the dotcom bubble.

]]> By: greatneb http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/10/esquires-investment-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-11925 greatneb Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:45:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2551#comment-11925 Even more impressive is that SUPERFUND GOLD is up 80.92% since it's launch in September 2005 whilst gold is up 133.74%! That's the sort of horrific underperformance that only active management can get you. Even more impressive is that SUPERFUND GOLD is up 80.92% since it’s launch in September 2005 whilst gold is up 133.74%! That’s the sort of horrific underperformance that only active management can get you.

]]> By: Foobar57 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/10/esquires-investment-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-11921 Foobar57 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:00:52 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2551#comment-11921 Felix, you left off the absolute most cringe-inducing quote from his gold fund article! "A hypothetical index of managed futures has outperformed the S&P 500 since 1980 by thousands of percent." What does "a hypothetical index of managed futures" even mean? Is he seriously hypothesizing a managed fund that somehow magically knew how to time every single market swing over the past 30 years? Well yeah, I guess such a hypothetical fund would indeed always beat the market! :-) Felix, you left off the absolute most cringe-inducing quote from his gold fund article!

“A hypothetical index of managed futures has outperformed the S&P 500 since 1980 by thousands of percent.”

What does “a hypothetical index of managed futures” even mean? Is he seriously hypothesizing a managed fund that somehow magically knew how to time every single market swing over the past 30 years? Well yeah, I guess such a hypothetical fund would indeed always beat the market! :-)

]]> By: ottorock http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/10/esquires-investment-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-11914 ottorock Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:12:43 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2551#comment-11914 Would that be THE Gooch from Diff'rent Strokes? Would that be THE Gooch from Diff’rent Strokes?

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