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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

Meaning, you do not get the 8-10% long-term gains without living through a significant number of market events, ranging from cyclical drawdowns to longer secular bear markets, and full-on crashes. My portfolio was tiny; I had no 401k, and my wife’s 403(b), with less than a decade’s worth of contributions, was barely 5-figures.

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At the Money: Managing a Portfolio in a Higher Rate Environment

The Big Picture

Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. We’re going to discuss how these changes are likely to affect your portfolios and what you should do about it. And they kept it there all the way to 2004, and the joke was in 2003 and 2004 was an emergency rate when there was no clear emergency.

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Financial Advisors Communicating About Market Volatility

Indigo Marketing Agency

A notable example is 2003, when the S&P 500 reversed an 8.6% When clients see red numbers flashing across their screens, their instinct is often to panic, pull out of investments, or assume the worst. Right now, your clients dont just need portfolio management; they need perspective. early-year loss to finish up 26.4%.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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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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Market Commentary: The Summer Rally Continues Amid Strong Job Gains

Carson Wealth

Even more impressive is the past four times this happened (1997, 2003, 2009, and 2020) all saw at least double-digit returns. We didn’t even see significant revisions to March and April payroll numbers, and the 3-month average now sits at 249,000. MAY”be we have a positive signal from the strong May. Did you see what I did there?

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Barron's Loves Them Some Closed End Funds

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The basic mechanics of CEFs is they are exchange traded but unlike ETFs which create or redeem shares based on money coming and going, CEFs have a fixed number of shares so open market buying and selling can cause the market price of the fund to deviate widely from the net asset value (NAV), the actual value of the holdings.