I’ve been a fan of Mike Dever and his firm, Brandywine Asset Management since I first 
began learning about mutual funds 20 years ago. Mike joins us today on Tradestreaming Radio to discuss his new book, Jackass Investing— a book with 30 years of hard-earned investment experience. Mike describes multiple myths investors (and the media!) have about investing — and then proceeds to bust them. In this podcast, you’ll learn:
- why conventional investment wisdom requires investors to take unnecessary risks
- why some investors continue to believe in myths and underperform
- how to open up to new strategies to give you greater diversification
- what “return drivers” are and how they enable profitable investments Continue reading “Busting jackass myths to find more profitable investment strategies – with Mike Dever”
I find this compelling because it’s one of the first hedge funds that’s designed (so publicly, at least) to trade on changes in social media sentiment.
Continuing to look at alternative investments, I stumbled upon investing in taxi medallions. The data show that a NYC taxi medallion would have returned 16% per year on average for the past 60 years — smoking traditional asset classes.
For me, the mining industry offers huge returns/losses (not unlike biotech).
Interesting 
