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You can’t handle the truth – Do the Math on the 2023 Bull Market

David Nelson

Even with that as a continued threat, evidence continues to mount that an ever-rising number of companies are starting to participate in the most hated bull market of my career. Do the Math Let’s do the math. Okay, let’s go there. How many companies in the Russell 3000 are up YTD? Let’s take a look.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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The March to a $10 Trillion Company

Validea

In 2000, General Electric accounted for over 5% of the S&P 500 ( source ). The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. In 2000, the total value of the US stock market was $15.1

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60/40 Is Dead! Long Live 60/40!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Yields were kind of low in the mid 2000's before the financial crisis which was part of the story for why I started to use liquid alternatives (that term didn't exist yet), bond substitutes and bond proxies. I'm not sure how much fixed income that has equity beta should be in a portfolio but I don't think it's a high number.

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The March to a $10 Trillion Company

Validea

In 2000, General Electric accounted for over 5% of the S&P 500 ( source ). The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. In 2000, the total value of the US stock market was $15.1

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Throw It All Out And Start Over?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% It's not that 60/40, or some other combination of numbers is bad or dead, more like how we build the 40 or other number maybe needs to be different. In the 2000's, foreign outperformed and a large allocation to foreign was very important during that time.

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The Big But

The Better Letter

Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. Accordingly, the last 11 NFL MVPs have all been QBs (16 of the last 17; and 21 of 24 since 2000). After all, they had Mike Phipps.

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