Paul McCartney gets his due as a songwriter on this new 42-track tribute album that’s been ten years in the making. The reason it took so long? Everyone said yes. Here’s what you can expect in the full-album stream embedded below, beginning with Billy Joel and Bob Dylan: 0:01 Billy Joel-Maybe I’m Amazed(4p) 5:05 Bob…

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I told myself I wasn’t going to post Adult Swim’s new mind-f***ing “Too Many Cooks” video but then there I went and did it anyway. Apologies in advance if you have no idea what you just watched.

Last week I did a modified version of my presentation, “Let Me Save You Some Time” for an audience of Pan-European portfolio managers and financial advisors at the Citywire Berlin conference. My full presentation slides are below… Let Me Save You Some Time (2014) I take on a handful of speaking engagements each year, if…

On old pirate maps, the edges of the navigated and known world would ultimately give way around the border to the places where no ships had yet sailed – or had yet returned alive from. Science being what it was in the 18th century, it became popular for cartographers to print warnings about the sea…

For as long as I’ve been running this site, I’ve been writing about and linking to the insights of Rob Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates and inventor of the fundamentally-weighted index. Rob’s an intellectual hero of mine and I’ve seen him speak a bunch of times – but I’d never had the chance to talk…

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