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13 Must Reads for Real Estate Investors for the Weekend (May 26, 2023)

Wealth Management

Office REITs are trading at their lowest levels since 2009, reports Bloomberg. billion joint venture focused on retail assets. Crow Holdings formed a $2.6 These are some must reads from around the real estate investment world heading into the weekend.

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MiB: Maria Vassalou, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Dr. Maria Vassalou , co-chief investment officer of multi-asset solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Rich Bernstein of Richard Bernstein Advisors (RBA), which was founded in 2009 and is running $14.6B

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MiB: Boaz Weinstein Live!

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Boaz Weinstein, the chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management LP, which Weinstein founded in 2009 as a lift-out of Saba Principal Strategies. He explains how credit has become the most volatile asset class, far more than equity. A transcript of our conversation is available here Tuesday.

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Why Is the Fed Always Late to the Party?

The Big Picture

If only the Fed didn’t do X, our portfolio would have been much better” seems to be a terrible approach to managing assets for clients. Who is to Blame, 1-25 (June 29, 2009). _. All too often, Fed criticism is thinly-veiled excuse-making for underperforming alpha chasers. “If Blame the Fed For Everything! June 9, 2022).

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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk. The dotcom top, the double bottom in Oct 02-March 03; the highs in 2007, the lows 2009. Catching the exact right moment when the crowd is mostly wrong goes against all of your instincts as a social primate.3

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

The S&P 500 topped out in early October 2007 and bottomed in March 2009. The asset class has exploded in popularity over the past two decades — but that doesn’t mean it’s about to blow up, argues our columnist. ( Institutional Investor ). • Let’s look at the 2008 scenario as an example. Economic Innovation Group ). •

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A Short History of Stocks

The Big Picture

They slowly accumulated some assets, but hardly moved the needle on Wall Street. Most of the hedge fund community would be revealed post-2009 as not worth their costs. It is not a coincidence that following the GFC, Vanguard and Blackrock soon crossed a trillion dollars in assets, then doubled in size, then doubled again.