Markets

• What happens after an 'everything month'? Not much, actually. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
• As an investor, you can't miss too many months like November. (bpsandpieces.com)
• The addition of Tesla ($TSLA) to the S&P 500 is a big deal but not for people who own total market funds. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
• Why currency volatility is so low, historically speaking. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)

Companies

• How a combined Salesforce ($CRM) and Slack ($WORK) can take on Microsoft ($MSFT). (nytimes.com)
• How Citi ($C) Ventures is one of top 15 U.S. corporate venture firms based on its investing volume. (news.crunchbase.com)

Streaming

• HBO Max is beginning to hit its stride. (theringer.com)
• Add discovery+ to the growing number of premium streaming services. (axios.com)
• Netflix's ($NFLX) churn rate is lower than competitors. (axios.com)

Global

• The UK is the first Western country to approve the use of the Pfizer ($PFE) coronavirus vaccine. (nytimes.com)
• Canada is contemplating another big stimulus package. (bbc.com)
• Australia's economy is bouncing back. (bloomberg.com)

Housing

• It's hard to see how the housing market cools markedly in 2021. (finance.yahoo.com)
• Two signs that new home construction will continue apace next year. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
• 2021 shouldn't be as volatile for the housing market. (housingwire.com)
• Many small towns are struggling to deal with an influx of new residents. (bloomberg.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Personal finance links: the story of money. (abnormalreturns.com)
• December ESG links: Euro offerings. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Research links: behavioral drivers. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Blogging is dead, long live blogging! (abnormalreturns.com)
• Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter just for advisers. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Sarah Frier's "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" Financial Times and McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award. (ft.com)
• The best books of 2020 including “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn” by Richard Hamming. (newyorker.com)
• The top books of 2020 including "Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking" By Bill Buford. (nytimes.com)
• Lessons learned from "Lights Out: Pride, Delusion and the Fall of General Electric" by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann. (valueandopportunity.com)

Investing

• One question you need to ask yourself before you begin to invest. (cnbc.com)
• Three tax strategies you can use near year-end that can also help your portfolio. (morningstar.com)
• Following your own advice is harder than it looks. (ofdollarsanddata.com)

Life

• Good health is your most meaningful asset in retirement. (tonyisola.com)
• How to better manage your 'life admin.' (artofmanliness.com)
• Five things to do with your finances if you are having a baby. (mullooly.net)
• Some tools on how to be a more conscious shopper. (ritholtz.com)

Personal finance

• 11 signs that you have money in the right perspective. (humbledollar.com)
• Saving money isn't just about retirement decades down the road. It's also about giving you the freedom to live your life on your own terms. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
• Living longer requires a number of new financial tools for retirees. (magazine.wharton.upenn.edu)
• Actual money lessons you can learn from the game Monopoly. (humbledollar.com)
• How do you know if you are on the hedonic treadmill? (incognitomoneyscribe.com)

Ratings

• ESG ratings have built-in sectoral biases. (factorresearch.com)
• Morningstar ($MORN) has begun integrating environmental, social and governance factors into all its analysis of stocks, funds and asset managers. (ftadviser.com)
• Jeff Ptak and Christine Benz talk with Michael Jantzi who is CEO of Sustainalytics about the future of sustainable investing. (morningstar.com)
• Blackrock's ($BLK) Aladdin now has the ability to drill down to the climate risks of individual securities. (institutionalinvestor.com)

Diversity

• The Nasdaq wants to require listed companies to have diverse boards. (nytimes.com)
• A record 41 female CEOs are slated to be soon running Fortune 500 companies, many of them in retail. (wsj.com)
• Companies with more women on the board perform better. (ft.com)

Money management

• Rick Redding, "The number of indices measuring ESG criteria grew by more than 40% in the past year." (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
• A profile of Lauren Taylor Wolfe and Christian Alejandro Asmar's Impactive Capital which uses ESG criteria to select stocks. (forbes.com)
• Direct indexing is built for ESG mandates. (thinkadvisor.com)
• Breaking down the ranks of ESG ETFs. (etf.com)
• How to invest a muni bond portfolio with social purpose. (parametricportfolio.com)

ESG

• How sustainability differs across countries with different legal traditions. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)
• What startups can to do show their environmental impact, or lack thereof. (ft.com)
• Third-party company emissions data just isn't all that useful. (papers.ssrn.com)
• Solutions to reduce food waste would be a boon the environment and business' bottom lines. (ft.com)
• Allstate ($ALL) recently conducted a bond deal using only diverse-owned banks. (msn.com)
• Green investors are increasingly turning the courts to make an impact. (economist.com)