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How Do Active Managers Invest Their Own Money?

The Big Picture

But they also asked questions about how these managers invested their own monies. Robin buries the lede in his discussion, but allow me to correct that oversight: “ Active managers invest their own capital passively.” ” It’s is worth your time to delve into the entire discussion.

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From Bogleheads to Gearheads: U.S. ETFs Are Rapidly Increasing in Complexity

Wealth Management

used derivatives as a significant component of their investment strategy, up from 20% in 2014. In 2024, 40% of the new ETFs listed in the U.S.

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Market Concentration

The Big Picture

Bryan Taylor, Chief Economist at Global Financial Data, breaks these into seven distinct eras over the past 235 years: 1790 to 1840 The Bank of the United States Dominates 1840 to 1875 The Rise of the Railroads 1875 to 1929 The American Commercial Revolution 1929 to 1964 The First (..)

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We Are Ready For Prime Time

The Reformed Broker

This week, Michael Batnick, Cathie Wood, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss investing in innovation, AI fact vs fiction, how big Tesla can get, why Ark bought Nvidia in 2014, Zoom vs Google Meet vs Microsoft Teams, and much more! Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends.

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Remembering Art Cashin

The Big Picture

Invest as If It Won’t. Sources : Art Cashin, New York Stock Exchange fixture for decades, dies at age 83 Bob Pisani CNBC, Dec 2 2024 Cashin on the Cuban Missile Crisis / North Korea (August 14, 2017) The World Is Ending?

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Question #2 for 2024: How much will job growth slow in 2024? Or will the economy lose jobs?

Calculated Risk

Question #8 for 2024: How much will Residential investment change in 2024? The second table shows the change in construction and manufacturing payrolls starting in 2006. Question #7 for 2024: How much will wages increase in 2024? How about housing starts and new home sales in 2024?

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What If You Only Invested At Market Peaks?

A Wealth of Common Sense

In 2014 I wrote a piece called What If You Only Invested at Market Peaks? I’m at Future Proof this week with 4,000 friends in the financial advice space. Here’s a look back at the most popular post in A Wealth of Common Sense history. *

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