Number of contestants complaining that last week’s chart quiz was too easy: 2
Number of contestants complaining that last week’s chart quiz was too hard: 2
Number of contestants saying last week’s chart quiz was just right: 0
Here’s what they needed to say for a chance of winning the tee :
That’s S&P’s year-to-date corporate default tally and is from this story .
That’s the Italy/Germany 10-year bond spread, from this story .
That’s the percentage by year of large-cap domestic equity funds underperforming the S&P 500, and wasn’t in a story. The chart as shown was an unused extra from Philip Coggan’s excellent long-read on passive versus active, though a version of it’s in this Alphaville post .
We also need to say thank you to Sohan Vittalam, who included with his (wrong) entry a spreadsheet of all previous contestants and their respective luck in the draw. We’ll share his data just as soon as we figure out a way to present it.
So to the wheel:
Who’s Vlad Tasca, a data operations manager at quant-data shop RavenPack. Congratulations to him, commiserations to the rest. There’s another chance to win this Friday.