Seeking Alfalfa
Nov 24th, 2008 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Commodities, Economics, Energy, Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies
“Well, God knows you don’t need any brains to buck barley bags...”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
Alpha used to be what hedge-fund managers promised their clients.
Better still, portable alpha — defined in the easy bed-time reading of finance MBAs as the “generation of excess return over a benchmark ...read more

