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Should You Worry About “Recession” Risk?

Discipline Funds

On one side you have optimists who have been saying that the US economy remains robust and on the other side you have pessimists who are worried about recession and a potential 2008 scenario. In our view we’re still in the “muddle through” camp as it pertains to the economy.

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Market remarkably resilient given banking sector challenges

Nationwide Financial

Over the past four weeks, money markets have added $300 billion, on par with surges in 2008 and 2020, bringing the total to a record $5.1 Fund managers remain historically conservative per Bank of America’s Global Fund Manager Survey showing asset allocators long cash and short equities.

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Equity markets at a crossroads – What is the way forward?

Truemind Capital

After the subprime crisis in 2008, many developed countries’ Central Banks started printing money and flooding the global economies with cheap liquidity. The liquidity support since 2008 and massive stimulus post March 2020 has inflated all the asset prices be it equity, debt, or real estate. But first a quick recap.

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Weekend Reading – Is Inflation Dead?

Discipline Funds

Not only do we know that shelter is making inflation look irrationally high, but we also know that the most important retailers in the US economy are saying exactly what the CPI ex-shelter says. In other words, if you’re 65 in 2007 and 100% invested in stocks and then 2008 happens then you end up going back to work until you’re at least 70.

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The Known Unknowns

The Irrelevant Investor

When all was said and done it fell 1.4%, making today the worst opening day since 2008. What the optimal asset allocation will be over the next twelve months. How fast or slow the economy will expand or contract. The S&P 500 (SPY) opened down 1.66%, fell another 0.95% and then rallied 1.2% into the close.

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Heard The One About This Decade Being A Downer?

Validea

Among those voices are Michael Burry, seer of the housing collapse that preceded the 2008-09 financial crisis, and Ray Dalio, who predicted that “the economy will be weaker than expected, and that is without consideration given the worsening trends in internal and external conflicts” in a recent LinkedIn post cited in the article.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks achen Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47 Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. Take Europe, for instance.