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	<title>Mebane Faber Research - Stock Market and Investing Blog</title>
	
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		<title>Shareholder Yield Book is Out!</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/14/shareholder-yield-book-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to do a longer piece on this topic later this week, but wanted to announce that the eBook is now out!  It&#8217;s only $5, and it&#8217;s a nice, quick read.   If you pick up a copy I would love to hear what you think! Shareholder Yield: A Better Approach to Dividend <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/14/shareholder-yield-book-is-out/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>(Don’t) Follow Me</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/09/dont-follow-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ira Sohn conference is running with a great list of speakers, I attended last year and am sad to miss &#8211; it  is a wonderful conference for a great cause.  Here is a list of other good idea conferences. Einhorn had a quote: &#8221;It doesn&#8217;t make sense to blindly follow me or anyone else into <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/09/dont-follow-me/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Combining Value, Trend, and Sentiment</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/07/combining-value-trend-and-sentiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We did a post the other day that combined simple value and trend systems into a portfolio that resulted in much lower volatility and drawdowns.  My friend John Hussman takes a look with a slightly different methodology and finds similar results.  Namely, buying what is cheap and trending up is a good idea.  Buying what <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/07/combining-value-trend-and-sentiment/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“On a dollar weighted basis hedge funds are a database-driven marketing gimmick.”</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/07/on-a-dollar-weighted-basis-hedge-funds-are-a-database-driven-marketing-gimmick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That quote was from my friend Eric Crittenden at Longboard way back in 2007.  We were chatting about how a lot of the investable hedge fund indexes massive underperform the more often quoted, but also uninvestable cousins.  I had just published an article for the Technical Analyst magazine that examined this chronic underperformance of the <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/07/on-a-dollar-weighted-basis-hedge-funds-are-a-database-driven-marketing-gimmick/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Profile of Robin Hood Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/05/profile-of-robin-hood-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 04:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[on 60 minutes: &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Dividend &amp; Buyback Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/04/top-10-dividend-buyback-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mebanefaber.com/?p=7097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally putting out this ebook, and thought I&#8217;d include a section with 10 FAQs on dividends and buybacks. If you have any burning questions send them in!]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomy Black</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/03/bloomy-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 21:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mebanefaber.com/?p=7094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like Bloomberg moving into this space, but my guess is they&#8217;re going to have to cut their fee in half &#8211; $1,200 for something people will see as an app seems way too much.]]></description>
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		<title>Buyback Echo</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/03/buyback-echo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice summary from Hulbert: &#8220;Buyback strategies aren’t nearly as time-sensitive, according to David Ikenberry, dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder and one of academia’s leading experts on stock buybacks. In an interview, he said that he has found in his research that the average buyback stock outperforms <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/03/buyback-echo/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sell in May or November Timberrrrr?</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/03/sell-in-may-or-november-timberrrrr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repost from Oct 2010.  Will probably post again in 2016. &#8212;- “Because I believe that all criteria for investing (that is, good betting strategies) should have a logic that isn’t time specific, I believe that the alpha generators that make up the ultimate alpha generator should be timeless and universal. By that I mean that <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/03/sell-in-may-or-november-timberrrrr/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibals and Capital Destroyers</title>
		<link>http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/02/cannibals-and-capital-destroyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mebane Faber</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mebanefaber.com/?p=7076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I created this chart today to see how many of the S&#38;P 500 stocks had a positive net payout yield (dividends &#38; net stock buybacks).  Turns out it is most, nearly 80%, which is great (R2K is less around half which is not surprising due to their smaller size, etc.) Here is the chart.  I <a href="http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/05/02/cannibals-and-capital-destroyers/"><strong>More...</strong></a>]]></description>
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