Markets

• Corporate America is pulling back on buybacks. (bloomberg.com)
• The panic low was 9 years ago today. (crossingwallstreet.com)

Strategy

• Josh Brown, "Rules of thumb, in the investment sphere, are at best worthless and at worst destructive for returns." (thereformedbroker.com)
• Put together a portfolio that works for you (and your institution) not someone else. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
• Loey's 8 rules on asset allocation. (ft.com)

Amazon

• Amazon Kindle and Kindle Paperwhites are now $30 off. (amazon.com)
• Bose QuietComfort 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones are at a huge discount. (amazon.com)
• For the ice lover in your life: the Opal Nugget Ice Maker is currently $50 off. (amazon.com)

Cryptocurrencies

• How blockchain technologies could save Wall Street money. (bloomberg.com)
• Goldbugs are now pushing Bitcoin to preppers. (bloomberg.com)
• Can you use quant strategies in the cryptocurrency space? (factorresearch.com)
• Questions to ask when you own 1.0 Bitcoin. (rivershedge.blogspot.com)
• Open a Coinbase account, trade $100 in cryptocurrency and get $10 in Bitcoin free. (coinbase.com)

Companies

• Being a CEO of a big company today is no cake walk. (ft.com)
• A profile of Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia ($NVDA). (fortune.com)
• GE ($GE) is cleaning house at its board of directors. (wsj.com)

Fund management

• Vanguard isn't concerned with the shrinking number of public US companies. (institutionalinvestor.com)
• Indexing hasn't gone too far, maybe active ways too big to start. (bloomberg.com)
• I am shocked to read some fund companies misrepresent their Morningstar fund star ratings. (wsj.com)
• Putting an estimate on research costs in the Mifid II era. (ft.com)

Kindle deals

• "Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts" by Ryan Holiday is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
• "Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused" by Mike Dash is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
• Scott Patterson's "The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It" is still just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)

Global

• The demographic crunch is already affecting Japan's economy. (asia.nikkei.com)
• As societies age they also become more risk averse. (ft.com)

Economy

• The flat yield curve is going to give the Fed pause. (bloomberg.com)
• Small businesses are dealing with tight labor markets. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• ETF links: fee generators. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Q&A with Tom Jacobs editor of "Fortunes in Special Situations in the Stock Market: The Authorized Edition." (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• We have way too many meetings. (medium.com)
• Work for a great boss, the role is secondary. (thinkgrowth.org)
• Should you be specialist or a generalist: it's complicated. (farnamstreetblog.com)

The biz

• A big Barron's roundtable on the future of the ETF business. (barrons.com)
• Oaktree Capital ($OAK) is nudging into the ETF bond space. (bloomberg.com)
• Wisdomtree ($WETF) just purchased ETF Securities’ European-focused ETF business. (citywireusa.com)
• These ETFs generate the most revenue for their sponsors. (etf.com)

Funds

• This is a better way to launch new ETFs. (financial-planning.com)
• Why a governance-focused ETF would be cool. (etf.com)
• A closer look at the SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF ($SHE). (etf.com)
• A look at the October 2017 ETF Deathwatch. (investwithanedge.com)
• Another example of really specific strategies: the ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF ($CLIX). (blogs.wsj.com)
• 137 ETFs that charge 0.10% or less. (etf.com)