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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. How Greenspan Became the ex-Maestro (August 11, 2014). All too often, Fed criticism is thinly-veiled excuse-making for underperforming alpha chasers. “If Blame the Fed For Everything!

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At the Money: Matt Hougan on Crypto Technology

The Big Picture

His firm runs over $10 billion in client crypto assets. To help us unpack this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Matt Hougan. Gox in 2014. I think many of the skeptics don’t evaluate where the data is today because they’re taking a 2022 or 2018 or 2014 view of Bitcoin and crypto.

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The Advisory | June 2014

Brown Advisory

The Advisory | June 2014. Sun, 06/01/2014 - 20:26. The key is knowing how to prudently capture these important but uncertain drivers in client portfolios. Our recent Navigating Our World (NOW) conference illuminated many compelling trends that are likely to shape the path of societies and industries in the future.

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20 topics for your financial blog

Investment Writing

” Why I manage money the way I do Why I became a financial planner or an investment manager Why I changed my mind about a topic important to how I help clients Why investors should pay less attention to financial news WHO Who can you trust with your money? I aimed for that in “ Why I write for you.” WHAT What do you want?—ask

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Dividends' Day In The Sun

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

A portfolio strategy that goes narrower than a couple of broad based index funds probably has some exposure to dividend stocks already so the decision about whether to make any changes can be moot, you already have some exposure. To be clear, Portfolio 3 does use the portable alpha approach, it is leveraged by 40%.

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Equity Beat: In Consideration of the Macro

Brown Advisory

But we never forget that we manage diversified portfolios, and those portfolios are indeed affected by macro factors; inflation, interest rates, bank liquidity and other issues facing the economy will of course influence the prospects of the companies we hold in our strategies.

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Nouriel Roubini Enters The ETF Fray

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There's no way to fit that many into a portfolio without having a portfolio of diversifiers hedged with a little bit of equity exposure which I don't think would be optimal. PPFIX, MERIX and BTAL are client and personal holdings. I'd say it's pretty close. The backtest runs from the start of 2011 to the end of 2020.