The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. They run over $800 billion in client assets, and Kristen’s group, the North American Group, is responsible for about half of the revenue that that massive organization generates.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2024

First up, the Harvard Endowment which posted the following asset allocation. Here's an article at theStreet.com from 2007 where I bagged on PSP. Arguably neither one is very close in terms of how it replicates but borrowing the asset allocation from the top down yields what I would call a valid result. I used PSP.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 1, 2016

Investment Perspectives | Real Returns achen Fri, 07/01/2016 - 06:00 One of the most penetrating and recurring questions we receive from clients is, “what is a reasonable long-term expectation for U.S. Low rates are generally good for stocks, as they tend to drive investors into riskier asset classes with higher return potential.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 1, 2016

Investment Perspectives | Real Returns. Changes in their assumed rate of return can impact decisions ranging from asset allocation to the spending level that a portfolio can rationally support. Low rates are generally good for stocks, as they tend to drive investors into riskier asset classes with higher return potential.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here's the latest about Harvard from Bloomberg that included this chart of the asset allocation. It's not that someone could not copy the asset class exposure, just that the return streams would not look the same and often, various forms of sophistication replication does not really work in fund form. Black is 2023.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Investment Perspectives | Confidence ajackson Tue, 11/12/2019 - 16:31 Despite making new highs recently, U.S. We’ve consistently reminded clients to keep enough cash and equivalents on hand so they won’t be forced to liquidate investments at inopportune times, should the markets pull back. Low interest rates.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Investment Perspectives | Confidence. We’ve consistently reminded clients to keep enough cash and equivalents on hand so they won’t be forced to liquidate investments at inopportune times, should the markets pull back. Tue, 11/12/2019 - 16:31. Despite making new highs recently, U.S. Low interest rates.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

Investment Perspectives | Cool Change ajackson Tue, 08/06/2019 - 08:46 "Time for a cool change; I know that it's time for a cool change." Ever since Taylor joined our firm in 2010, I’ve been deeply impressed with his understanding of the markets and his intellectual curiosity with respect to all types of investments.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

Investment Perspectives | Cool Change. After more than 50 years of writing research reports and investment letters (including the last 20 with Brown Advisory), it’s time to pass the baton to a better qualified, more knowledgeable and—yes—younger colleague who can take Investment Perspectives forward. Tue, 08/06/2019 - 08:46.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

Invest For The Very Worst Of The Worst. That is not guessing what markets will do, that is just managing asset allocation and cash needs. Remember, the peak in the S&P 500 in October, 2007 was 1565. The name of the game with investing is not to get rich, but to avoid getting poor."

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James Hendries

JUNE 20, 2023

As the economy is likely downshifting, investors should take heed that the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) current stance is eerily similar to early 2007. A Lot Can Change in a Few Quarters So, why bring up a Fed statement from 2007? A lot changed over the course of 2007 and 2008 as the economy fell into the Great Financial Crisis.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II. 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. Wed, 04/01/2015 - 16:48.

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Truemind Capital

MAY 19, 2020

In this blog, I am going to give you insights on the important aspects of investment management employed by the best investors and how we can use them to maximize our portfolio returns besides minimizing the risk. In fact, Warren Buffet who is the 4 th richest man in the world has two rules for investing: Rule No 1 : Never lose money.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JUNE 13, 2017

There are new investment products hitting the shelves every week. This fierce competition amongst asset management companies is driving down expense ratios, but investor's are potentially paying higher costs. The optimal portfolio given the assets I selected outperformed one that required zero thought by just 0.76% a year.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JUNE 15, 2019

In 2018, 52% of all participants at Vanguard were invested in a single target-date fund. They anticipate that by 2023 80% of all assets at Vanguard will be in an automatic investment program. Automatic enrollment has tripled since 2007. This is a beautiful chart. The biggest takeaway for me here is the cash number.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

AUGUST 12, 2024

Or you could look at the 2007 high which was within a few points of the 2000 high and say it took 12 years to double. The first is to build a portfolio that you have a reasonable basis to believe can get you to where you need to be can stick with emotionally and maintain an asset allocation that allows you to manage sequence of return risks.

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Truemind Capital

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Time and again we hear this from many in the investment industry. This has resulted in severe competition in the investment market to generate decent returns. Two decades ago, investment in real estate or equity mutual funds resulted in superior returns if anyone had continued to hold on to it during different market cycles.

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Investing Caffeine

MAY 2, 2022

Peter Lynch, arguably one of the greatest all-time investors (see Inside the Brain of an Investing Geniu s ), said it best when he stated, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.”. Slome, CFA, CFP®.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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James Hendries

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One equity market debate discussed frequently in the LPL Research Strategic & Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) is the growth vs. value style reversal experienced the past 12 months. Since then, value has outperformed growth for the longest sustained period since 2003–2007. The “bird-in-hand” is more valuable.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We consider Synovus, based in Columbus, Georgia, an attractive target for acquisition or an upgrade to an investment-grade rating. By following a disciplined and patient approach, we hope to avoid these “value traps” and instead invest in bonds with robust yields and limited risk of default. . primarily in the South and Midwest.

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Carson Wealth

JUNE 12, 2023

We found there were two times during the tech bubble that stocks gained 20% and again moved to new lows, and it also happened during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. It was developed a decade ago and is a key input into our asset allocation decisions. All indices are unmanaged and may not be invested into directly.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

Rodrigo, members of Brown Advisory's Investment Solutions Group. Liquidity, like many concepts in the investment world, is simple on the surface but becomes far more complex when one examines it more deeply. Essentially, liquidity refers to how quickly an investment can be turned into cash.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

Rodrigo, members of Brown Advisory's Investment Solutions Group. Liquidity, like many concepts in the investment world, is simple on the surface but becomes far more complex when one examines it more deeply. Essentially, liquidity refers to how quickly an investment can be turned into cash. Mon, 03/30/2020 - 16:04.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma achen Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:58 One of the greatest challenges that public equities investors face to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data into their decision making is the lack of proof that real – not hypothetical – investment strategies can use ESG factors to enhance performance.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

One of the greatest challenges that public equities investors face to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data into their decision making is the lack of proof that real – not hypothetical – investment strategies can use ESG factors to enhance performance. The Search for an ESG Investment Edge.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. And it might be investment grade credit or distressed credit.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: So — RITHOLTZ: Why are they investing in mid-market U.S.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. You can imagine, you give a bearish message at a bullish investment conference, and no one listens to you.

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Discipline Funds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I hate to sound like a skeptic about this, but my guess is that the reason many investment firms promote the 10%+ figure is because they are either ignorant of these facts or, more likely, they want to frame returns as being high because their fees are high. And that’s important because we don’t live in a nominal world.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

Jenny Johnson is CEO of investment giant Franklin Templeton. Did you guys just say, we really want to be pure investment management? The requirements for asset managers to have a bank were such that it would inhibit us a bit. And the key is the difference for people investing early. They run about a $1.5

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

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The Irrelevant Investor

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I'm sure I left a few out, but if you're looking for some books on investing, this is a pretty good place to start. Ray Bradbury Below is the list of all the books seen in the chart, as well as a few more that I just couldn't fit.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I, if you are at all interested in concepts of things like portable alpha or return stacking, or just want to know how a quant looks at the world of investing and tries to decide where there are opportunities. Quantitative investing was, was that the plan from the beginning? Let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2007, firms extracted — the private equity firms extracted $20 billion from companies in the form of dividend recapitalizations. So, when private equity really was ramping up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was essentially an institutional allocation. This wasn’t a mom-and-pop investment. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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