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Market Extra: Government bonds held at banks may be so-called ‘toxic asset’ of next financial crisis, fund manager says

MarketWatch

Under a best-case scenario, investors’ fears would be calmed as California’s Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in New York are reorganized “in an orderly fashion,” according to Chris Crawford, the Boston-based portfolio manager of the firm’s Strategic Long Short Fund. The flip-side scenario is that the U.S. All three major U.S.

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Minimizing The Damage Of Large, Unexpected Withdrawals

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There is a secondary, more subtle point that relates to portfolio construction and portfolio theory as we discuss here and as I have implemented into client accounts. Back in 2006 and 2007 there were far fewer funds available to help offset large stock market declines.

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Don’t Ask An Economist Where the GDP Is Headed

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And a deep dive into the predictions in December 2007 found not one respondent accurately predicted the downturn that was to follow, with their forecasts ranging from 0.7% While the pandemic obviously caused a massive impact, the following year was just as wrong, when economists were off by 1.9 percentage points.

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They All Have One Thing In Common

The Irrelevant Investor

Don't worry about portfolio managers who will come and go, and don't speculate on which manager may be lucky enough or smart enough to outperform the market for a time. As 2012 began, despite the steep bear market of 2007 through early 2009, the value of that initial investment has actually continued to grow-- to $550,134.

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SPX 11,000?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

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. Since we cannot know the path, this really spotlights a couple of important portfolio management concepts. From the high in 1968, it took 18 years to double which is a very long time of course.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. You, 00:18:29 [Speaker Changed] You, you mentioned ownership mentality.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. Jeremy’s never really been a portfolio manager.

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