Thursday links: being a good listener

Markets

• You will be shocked to hear that hedge funds had a crummy June. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
• The current foreign stock market correction is not all that unusual. (awealthofcommonsense.com)

Strategy

• Prior generations of investors didn't have the benefit of market history and data. (ofdollarsanddata.com)
• Why you can get by with a simple three-index fund portfolio. (morningstar.com)

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Companies

• Why Google ($GOOGL) or Facebook ($FB) should buy Spotify ($SHOP). (medium.com)

Hedge funds

• Hedge funds and private equity are hot money chasing returns in the airplane leasing space. (wsj.com)
• David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital is struggling - time for a big profile! (wsj.com)
• Why future credit crunches could be eased by the abundance of distressed credit funds. (blog.yardeni.com)

Fund management

• Why don't US asset managers get stress-tested like banks? (bloomberg.com)
• The fund industry is rife with benchmark-mismatch. (evidenceinvestor.co.uk)

Global

• It's wicked hot all over the world. (washingtonpost.com)

Economy

• Weekly initial unemployment claims ticked up from low levels. (calculatedriskblog.com)
• Rising gasoline prices are offsetting some of the gains from recent tax cuts. (macromon.wordpress.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Startup links: ship dates. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Personal finance links: the ego gap. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Research links: textual analysis. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• How much of what you read in the newspaper will be true in the future? (collaborativefund.com)
• How you can make time for what matters to you. (nextavenue.org)
• How to deal with e-mail after a vacation. (feld.com)