Weekend Roundup – Feb. 2nd 2014

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Published: February 2, 2014 at 3:15 pm

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Photo of M Pattabiraman, founder, editor and primary author of freefincal.com By M. Pattabiraman   

This week I am holed up in the hospital taking care of my mother who broke her leg last Wednesday. The advantage of not having an i-pad or smart phone is that I get to sit in front of the computer only once a day for about 30 minutes or so. It gives me time to read. I am currently reading a book on portfolio management (FlipKart non-affiliate link), and this has given me many new calculator ideas.

In any case I already have many suggestions from readers to work on.

  1. Sharad Singh who runs TheFundoo shared on FB this interesting article he has co-authored on the shortcomings of the Sharpe ratio, a commonly used mutual fund risk measure: The Sharpe-less-ness, when the lighthouse misguides
  2. A couple of interesting posts from safetrade.in

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