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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

(capitalspectator.com) The credit markets are very different than they were in 2009. institutionalinvestor.com) Putting a valuation on Instacart ($CART). semafor.com) A wide range of outcomes is always on the table. tonyisola.com) Leveraged loans have put corporate bonds to shame in 2023.

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Revisiting the Market Valuation in the Wake of This Year’s Decline

Validea

With the S&P 500 now close to 20% off its highs, I thought now might be a good time to look to our market valuation tool to see where things stand. But before I do that, I wanted to first cover two caveats I always put in articles about market valuation. With that all being said, let’s look at the current valuation data.

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MiB: Richard Bernstein, CEO/CIO at RBA

The Big Picture

Bernstein explains the four drivers of their models: Profits, Liquidity, Sentiment, and Valuation. We discuss the challenges of launching a Quantitative Macro focused firm right into the teeth of the Great Financial Crisis in 2009. As frightening as that era was, it turned out to be a wonderful time to launch an asset management firm.

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Bond Valuations Are Cheap.

Advisor Perspectives

In February 2009, I wrote “ 8 Reasons For A Bull Market. Psychology in markets is always fascinating. ” While in hindsight, it is easy to see that was the right call, overall, psychology was highly negative at the time.

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Four Hard Investing Lessons From 2022 With Silver Linings

Validea

Even with bear markets like 2000-2002 and 2008-2009, the portfolio had strong returns for a very long period. While some of that outperformance was due to improving fundamentals and earnings, most of it the returns came from the valuation investors assigned to these stocks. Source: [link].

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Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds

Brown Advisory

Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds. With interest rates at record lows and many publicly traded bonds and stocks approaching historically high valuations, private credit has become increasingly attractive to investors because of its total return prospects, steady income and role in diversification.

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You Can Ring My Bell

Advisor Perspectives

Based on the present combination of extreme valuations, unfavorable and deteriorating market internals, and a rare preponderance of warning syndromes in weekly and now daily data, my impression is that the speculative market advance since 2009 ended last week. I may as well just say it.