If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra With the kids out of school, families across the country are packing up their cars and embarking on summer road trips. Journeys filled with bad dad jokes, frequent pee stops, and that oh too familiar backseat chorus. ‘Are we there yet?’ […]
It could be, it might be…it is! A home run! Harry Caray The Home Run. With one single swing of the bat, all the baserunners and the batter come home to score. For a hitter, it doesn’t get much better than knocking the ball out of the park. Between them, Reggie Jackson, Jim Thome, Adam […]
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang Data is like coffee shops. These days it is everywhere and in abundance. It doesn’t matter whether you are building a hockey team, managing investments, or picking the fastest route home, there are a lot of numbers being […]
“The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon.” Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Commander British Expeditionary Force 1915-1918 With the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge approaching, we take a look back at this historic battle, and why four Canadian divisions, fighting together for the first time, were able to capture a German position where the British […]
Alternative Facts for Alternative Investors | July 2017
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.” Alexandre Dumas Across the taxonomy of investment products, the hedge fund category invokes some rather extreme reactions. On the one hand, there are images of ruthless and greedy managers, whose performance doesn’t always justify their fees or egos. On the flip side, you have some of the world’s […]