Monthly Archives: June 2013

The truth about aggressive return assumptions and reaching for yield

Last week Detroit outlined its plan for necessary financial restructuring in bankruptcy. The emergency management team reviewed the cities public pension plans and found that the combined underfunding totaled $3.5 billion for the $2.77 billion Detroit General Retirement System and … Continue reading

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All the Fed all the time

When the headlines are all about what the Federal Reserve will or won’t do this week, we can know for sure that today’s equity market is nothing to do with valuable investment opportunity and everything to do with unreasonable hype … Continue reading

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Fresh thinking on food science

Hampton Creek Foods launches Beyond Eggs: a vegan replacement for eggs. Here is a direct link.

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