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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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A Few Thoughts On Diversification Strategies

Fortune Financial

It has been my experience when reviewing portfolios that diversification is typically expressed simply as a number of various stocks owned, or owning a handful of asset classes, usually stocks of various sizes and geographies, and bonds of varying maturities.

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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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Resilience is Core to Sustainable Portfolio Construction

Brown Advisory

Resilience is Core to Sustainable Portfolio Construction. While the old adage “only time will tell” generally refers to a future outcome, it is apropos of our belief that a truly sustainable portfolio must consist of businesses that have proven to be resilient under a variety of macroeconomic circumstances. Wed, 09/21/2022 - 10:50.

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Shortage of 5 Rupee Coins : Why were 5 Rupees Coins Discontinued?

Trade Brains

This dates back to 2007, when the RBI was dealing with a strange issue. A large number of hairdressers were using these razor blades. It was because of the illegal smuggling to Bangladesh. Smugglers used to export these coins to Bangladesh. One single coin could be turned into six blades, and each blade could be sold for Rs 2.

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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. 2007-09 Great Financial Crisis 7. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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The Frenzy in the Stock Market

Truemind Capital

I am also seeing an increasing exposure to equity even in those portfolios where investors have a very low-risk appetite. Thinking about all this, I felt I had read about this and observed it in 2007. During times of euphoria and bubbles, a huge number of retail investors want to invest in the stock market.