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MiB: Ken Kencel, Churchill Asset Management

The Big Picture

 This week, we speak with Ken Kencel, who is president and chief executive officer of Churchill Asset Management, a private credit firm with $46 billion in assets under management that was the top US private equity lender in the 2022 PitchBook league tables and was named 2022 Lender Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor.

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MiB: Gretchen Morgenson on Private Equity

The Big Picture

They also wrote the 2011 bestseller “ Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon ,” about the mortgage crisis. UHNW investors have been so attracted to Private Equity’s diversified asset class and steady returns, especially in an era of zero interest rates.

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Do Magazine Covers Contain Market Signals?

The Big Picture

It isn’t just Time magazine, but any non-business publication — consider the New York Times magazine cover on gold3 in 2011 as yet another example. Gold was more $1,500 an ounce during the week of the cover story in May 2011; during August and September of that year, gold almost hit $1,900; by December, it was back down to $1,500.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. It depends on your asset allocation. And they took it out of their asset allocation in favor of other strategies.

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Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 6.3% year-over-year in April

Calculated Risk

Luke, Head of Commodities, Real & Digital Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Sustained outperformance of the Northeast market was last observed in 2011. “For the second consecutive month, we’ve seen our National Index jump at least 1% over its previous all-time high,” says Brian D.

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Bitcoin Historical Annual Returns (10 Years, 5 Years, 3 Years, 1 Year)

Good Financial Cents

The creator(s) of this first-of-its-kind asset developed the cryptocurrency in response to the Great Recession of 2007-2009 , spurred by a distrust of the traditional banking system and concerns about its stability. Read on for insights on Bitcoin milestones, historical returns, and how its returns compare to those of other assets.

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What’s Wrong With Macroeconomic Uncertainty Indexes

The Big Picture

60 Years of Uncertainty Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom, Davide Furceri IMF, March 2020 _ 1.