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Small Cap Value: Waiting for the Jumpstart

Validea

By Justin Carbonneau ( Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube ) — Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a number of charts highlighting the opportunity in small-cap stocks given their absolute and relative valuations. As you can see, small/mid-cap value has rarely been so cheap (our data goes back to 2006). Only 12.4% Only 11.7%

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Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds

Brown Advisory

Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds. With interest rates at record lows and many publicly traded bonds and stocks approaching historically high valuations, private credit has become increasingly attractive to investors because of its total return prospects, steady income and role in diversification.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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

Carson Wealth

Strong Job Numbers Are Good News for the Economy and Markets There’s been valid concern that employment conditions are deteriorating, ever so slowly. in 2006, and 7.8% The unemployment rate has increased from a low of 3.4% in April 2023 to 4.3% in July of this year. In fact, consumer credit is up only 1.6% in 2019, 5.9%

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Market, Stocks, and Bonds Lessons Learned from 2022 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 9, 2023

James Hendries

When LPL Research released the Outlook 2022: Passing the Baton in December 2021, the team’s view was that the hit from inflation would be manageable and would therefore limit the number and magnitude of interest rate increases, enable the U.S. economy to avoid recession, and support above-average valuations.

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

The Big Picture

’cause then I figure I could always be employed either managing the numbers or doing law and get those two degrees. And I got to see firsthand what Bain was doing in strategic consulting and understand their view of business separate from the numbers. And Bain was kind enough to offer me a job to facilitate.

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Markets pause as investors contemplate positioning into year-end

Nationwide Financial

Technology allocations are at the most underweight since 2006. However, this is actually a sustainable situation where market returns appear modest but are instead growing into their valuation. The health of the labor market is in focus with an increasing number of companies announcing intentions to reduce their workforce.