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Not Your Grandpa’s Railroad

Fortune Financial

Since 2002, overall carloads on Union Pacific’s network have declined by a bit less than 1% per year, but Union Pacific’s revenues per car have increased 4% per year. railroads have vastly outperformed the broader stock market over the last five-, ten-, and twenty-year periods?

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

Barry Ritholtz : The the funny thing is, the behavioral aspect of mutual funds seems to have been when people finally learn about a manager who’s put up great numbers, by the time it makes to make makes it to Forbes, hey, most of that run is probably over and a little mean reversion is about to kick in. I did it in 2000, 2002.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

The Big Picture

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: Yes. And that’s problematic. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Optimism vs. Pessimism: Defining Your Investing Future

Validea

Felix outlines a number of ways to combat the cost of pessimism, including checking your investments less frequently and finding ways to automate your investing contributions, among others. Over the last 25 years, we have seen four bear markets (1999-2002, 2008-2009, 2020, 2022) and numerous market corrections (10% losses).

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

The Big Picture

They have a number of businesses that they’ve taken over through the debt side of the equation. But that valuation, to be able to come up with the valuation, to be then able to work in a restructuring process, bankruptcy process, and say, Hey, I think at the end of this, we are buying debt at 50 cents.

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Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II

Brown Advisory

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Unsurprisingly, as volume has increased, so have valuations.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. By this valuation method, the portfolio cashflow duration is in the 16 to 17-years range. We inherently prefer actual cash flow.