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Thursday links: the laws of physics

Abnormal Returns

Rates Mortgage rates are at levels not seen since 2001. finance.yahoo.com) Markets Valuations don't matter in the short term. axios.com) Global government bond yields are at 15-year highs. theirrelevantinvestor.com) Forecasting is hard, the GMO edition. ft.com) Companies Verily is setting the stage for a spinoff from Alphabet ($GOOGL).

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MiB: Savita Subramanian, US Equity & Quantitative Strategy, Bank of America

The Big Picture

Prior to joining the firm in 2001, Subramanian was an analyst at Scudder Kemper Investments in New York and San Francisco. She has been a ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor survey for the last eleven years. Subramanian is on the advisory board of the UCLA Master of Financial Engineering program.

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Market Commentary: Checking In on Market Fundamentals

Carson Wealth

Pockets of attractive valuations exist despite above-average valuations in some high-profile areas of the market. The measure is at 80.7%, exactly where it was a year ago and higher than at any point between July 2001 and February 2020. Following the huge 11.2% But does a strong labor market raise inflation concerns?

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Equity Beat: Don't Wait for Earnings to Trough

Brown Advisory

at year-end can largely explain the compression in valuation, especially for higher multiple equities, primarily during the first half of the year. Dot-com hangover/9-11 October 2000 December 2001 -16.5% 9/21/2001 12/31/2001 52 18.9% at the beginning of the year to 16.6x by year-end. to nearly 3.9%

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Smaller Stocks Are On A Winning Streak

Validea

That’s positive news for small-caps, especially as the pattern of underperforming before a recession and outperforming as a recession wanes is one that small-caps have followed in 1990, 2001, 2008, and 2020. That’s led some strategists to advise investors to overweight their portfolios with small-caps, the article reports.

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22 Predictions

The Irrelevant Investor

Passive's portion of total fund assets has grown from 14% in 2001 to 52% today. ( Long-term valuations don't mean revert. Alto IRA is purchased by Fidelity. H/t Jeffrey Ptak ) It will continue to take share in the next decade, but at a much slower pace, never eclipsing 60%. The Dow hits 100,000 in 15 years.

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Market Commentary: Stocks in the Middle of Some Amazing Streaks While Job Growth Perks Up

Carson Wealth

That’s higher than anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). The prime-age employment population ratio was unchanged at 80.9% in September. The fact that the unemployment rate and the prime-age employment population ratio are pointing in the same direction is positive. Since the end of 2019, the S&P 500 is up 92%.