Wednesday links: a widespread misconception

Strategy

• Why buybacks are likely to re-accelerate. (thereformedbroker.com)
• On the myth of 'Dr. Copper.' (pensionpartners.com)
• Hedge fund alpha is real but rare. (rcmalternatives.com)

Support

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Crypto

• Bitwise Asset Management filed for an ETF version of its Bitwise HOLD 10 Private Index Fund. (etf.com)

Google

• It's hard to underestimate the influence that Google ($GOOGL) Maps has had on the world. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
• G Suite is becoming more of an Office killer. (fastcompany.com)
• Google ($GOOGL) still has additional industries it could enter. (howardlindzon.com)

Finance

• Stefan Cheplik, "Investors, fans, and followers will no longer want to hear from companies. They will not longer want dry, corporate, and dull sounding messages. They will want to hear directly from the people who run the companies." (hackernoon.com)
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, "The truth of the Main Street Investors Coalition is that it is an organization aimed at preventing investment firms from raising issues like climate change." (nytimes.com)
• Eight "rules" for insider trading. (bloomberg.com)

Indexing

• Indexing is maturing as an investment style. (ritholtz.com)
• Passive managers need not be passive investors. (evidenceinvestor.co.uk)

Fund management

• A talks with Jim Ross of State Street ($STT) about the past and future for ETFs. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
• Of course Amazon ($AMZN) could get into the money management business. (bloomberg.com)
• How far is 'too far' when it comes to doing due diligence on asset managers? (researchpuzzle.com)

Economy

• Bill McBride, "(I)t is important to remember that new home sales are more important for jobs and the economy than existing home sales." (calculatedriskblog.com)
• Mark Rzepczynski, "Determining the state of the environment is not the same as describing the latest economic data." (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Personal finance links: time is our ally. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Research links: staying disciplined. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Under what circumstances does "full information" fail us flawed humans? (marginalrevolution.com)
• Our instinct for cooperation seems to be innate. (qz.com)
• Mice and rats are just as likely to be fooled by the sunk cost effect. (nytimes.com)
• How to overcome negativity bias. (advisorperspectives.com)