Its four-and 24-year paper was active with the shorter-dated 2015 issue actually gaining when government bonds were lower.

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Taleb, author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, recently took the investment industry to task, arguing in a paper that active trading returns amounted to nothing more than luck.

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"Our new active pen combines the comfort and familiarity of writing on paper with the convenience and portability of mobile computing, " said Gary Baum, AVP Product Marketing.

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