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As head of assetallocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. has not seen 10+ year economic expansions, other developed markets certainly have. Additionally, while it is true that the U.S.
As head of assetallocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. has not seen 10+ year economic expansions, other developed markets certainly have. Additionally, while it is true that the U.S.
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Aside from some current political and economic topics that dominate the financial media, the most widely debated investment issue today involves the merits of passive investing, or indexing. Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate. Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35. Reasons for this tendency are varied. In short, every situation is different.
So a very different dynamic than we saw back in 2007, 2008, 2009. You raised another $11 billion in capital, despite the economic environment. KENCEL: So I was actually speaking at a conference, the Greenwich Economic Forum last week, where your folks interviewed me, actually. That being said, we stuck to our knitting.
He launched his own firm right into the teeth of the collapse in ’09, which turned out to be quite a fortuitous time to launch an asset management shop. You get a BA in Economics from Hamilton College. RITHOLTZ: So you’re there for 20 years, from 1988 to 2009. So, you know, 2009, what had happened was I was very burnt out.
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KOENIGSBERGER: What I really like is on top of these four return streams that we have, we kind of have a multi-asset, dynamic assetallocation process. KOENIGSBERGER: So that’s what — with our multi-asset strategy, we wanted to solve for that problem, which is — I call it a governance problem.
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And so graduating right into 2009, right out of the financial crisis, I said, I don’t think I’m gonna get a job. There’s very few, I would argue probably no consistent predictors of, of any sort of economic or market cyclicality. I think ity economics would argue you have to protect your capital to survive.
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President Obama’s term, starting in 2009, began when stock market valuations were near the bottom and as is well documented now, the stock market went on to its longest bull market in history. For example, the September 11th terrorist attacks and the 2008 Great Financial Crisis occurred under President G.W. Probably not.
President Obama’s term, starting in 2009, began when stock market valuations were near the bottom and as is well documented now, the stock market went on to its longest bull market in history. For example, the September 11th terrorist attacks and the 2008 Great Financial Crisis occurred under President G.W. Probably not.
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