The New York Times’s personal finance section gets a the jump on a State Street applied research report coming out Monday on investor habits and behavior. I’ll spare you the suspense – they find that people, pros and amateurs alike, are obsessed with finding alpha no matter what the cost and worry more about benchmarks…

October was a tough month for liquid alts – the category saw its first monthly outflow in more than two years. What makes this surprising is that October was the most volatile month of the year, and your gut instincts would tell you that this would drive money in, not out. Until you realize that…

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…

  Cartoon by Harley Schwadron