damn. saw the url and for a second thought it was to celebrate and remember winamp =(

Agreed. I don't feel the same level of engagement

Usually the business model is the company pays the credit rating agency to get their debt rated (hence the classic conflict of interest situation). Unsolicited would suggest this was not the case.

Given the way that one hand tends to quietly grabass the other in prestigious U.S. financial organizations and large corporations, we should probably narrow the title to "unsolicited by Tesla".

It could just be S&P wanting Telsa to buy their services.

Hate scribd. Love Quora. Conflicted.

I highly doubt Dimensional are using a three factor model to manage their portfolios. Typical multi-factor models these days can have anywhere from 10 to 100 factors.

The concepts of the three factor model are important to learn but implementing one in practice is rarely done. These core factors are too crowded these days as all the quant funds are looking at the same factors.

You're talking about active management. That is not what DFA does so you clearly don't get the philosophy.

This hits far too close to home...

We've been in fundraising mode for the last 6 months and some of Sam's points really shine through.

In particular the valuation bit strikes close to home.

on one hand this sort of thing concerns me, but on the other hand that's just amazing. just comes down to trust I guess

Say it ain't so

It'll be interesting to see if we still have as many Whatsapp-type apps in future. It seems like there's already quite a few... WhatsApp... WeChat... Line... Kakaotalk...Viber...