FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron Analyzes Baseball, Largely
Episode 354
Dave Cameron is both (a) the managing editor of FanGraphs and (b) the guest on this particular edition of FanGraphs Audio — during which edition he analyzes baseball, but also analyzes other things.
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Audio after the jump. (Approximately 39 min play time.)
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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
You do not have enough money for funds. The best asset for you would be the SPY, but you missed quite a run up in its price. You will see losses over periods, but the SPY is essentially betting that the US economy continues to grow for the next decade, or two. If it does not, you would be unemployed and penniless anyway, so your investment returns would hardly matter. Make your money and give some to charity until your conscience is relieved. Socially responsible investing is mainly a fad and a distraction from your main goal: avoiding starvation after you retire.
Also, a Golden/Lab mix is going to ruin Cameron.
Ignore that post.
Anybody else noticing extraordinary Home/Away splits?
Especially for starting pitchers? (better Home splits for starters)
Perhaps to combat the reduced offense (with less steroid use), there is now widespread pitch tipping for Home batters. Perhaps home batters are now learning the location and/or type of pitches.
Why? If you can’t augment the HRs with roids, let the home team’s hitters know what’s coming.
Hand your money over to Dave Cameroon. He will turn your millions into billions by punching anyone who gets in his way.
A little unique, but highly recommend Lending Club for investing. Peer to peer lending site. Can allocate as little as $25 to a person and spread your risk off over hundreds of people. Had a lot of success so far. Worth reading about at the very least. It is fascinating and a lot of people have done well with it.
Would also qualify as socially responsible.
It’s hard to find socially responsible index funds, but Vanguard does have one. Because a manager has to select which companies quaily as “socially responsible” you can’t get the same benefits of passive investing that index funds offer. It’s probably better to decide if you’re more intersted in low cost investing or socially responsible. Also, if you decide to invest only in socially responsible funds, you limit how diversified you can be, and diversification is key to generating long term returns.
ETFs are simialr to index funds, but they trade like stocks so you have to take into account trade costs and they can be a little tricker to buy and sell compared to mutual funds.
Vice Investing is the new inefficiency: http://www.usamutuals.com/vicefund/docs/VICEXcomplete.pdf
Re-iterating the comment on Peer-to-peer lending. Check out The only Peer-to-Peer Lending Investment Advisory focused 100% on P2P lending.