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Monthly NFPs Are Rounding Errors

The Big Picture

That is a significant number to recall whenever people posit we either are in, or just were in, or are about to tumble into a recession. but most months, the specific number is more or less a rounding error. It was that 157.087 million people are employed full-time in the United States.1 This is not a popular opinion.

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At the Money: Matt Hougan on Crypto Technology

The Big Picture

To help us unpack this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Matt Hougan. I recall 10 years ago, crazy numbers, something like a lot of hacks, a lot of thefts. Gox in 2014. I’m Barry Ritholtz. And on today’s edition of At The Money, we’re going to discuss all sorts of cryptocurrencies.

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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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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

You would offer three of their stock picks where they were probably touting stocks they wanted to unload from their portfolio. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And a, a number of things happened.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Nigl’s bracket finally went bust on game 50 (the third game on the second weekend) when three seed Purdue defeated number two Tennessee, 99-94, in overtime. In 2014, one bracket was alive through 34 games. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. He picked up another £121,157.

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The Importance Of Diversifying Your Diversifiers

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Mutiny Funds put out a paper on the hows and whys of using alts for The Cockroach Portfolio that they manage and that we've looked at a few times. Looking back, 2014 is the only year (available to backtest) where equities and managed futures were up similar amounts. There are expectations embedded in these numbers.

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Income and Impact: Adding Green Bonds to Investment Portfolios

Brown Advisory

We believe that our approach to building sustainable bond portfolios, in which we use green bonds alongside other bonds with attractive environmental and social characteristics, is an effective way to achieve our clients’ investment and sustainability objectives. It has the largest voluntary renewable portfolio of any U.S.