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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

The Big Picture

Your grandchildren will blame the toxic combination of incompetency and ideology for the massively increased carrying costs of unfunded spending and tax cuts. Note that we undertook much of the work anyway (airports, electrical grid, roads, etc.), just decades later at a much greater cost. All simply unnecessary.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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It's All Relative

Brown Advisory

As we discuss in this article, this approach has directly contributed to our outperformance during the most recent period of rising interest rates dating from the end of 2015. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. investment-grade tax-exempt bond market.

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It's All Relative

Brown Advisory

As we discuss in this article, this approach has directly contributed to our outperformance during the most recent period of rising interest rates dating from the end of 2015. Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. investment-grade tax-exempt bond market. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES.

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From Rocket Ship to Roller Coaster

Investing Caffeine

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Many people have short memories and forget the Fed hiked interest rates 10 times from the end of 2015 through 2018. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit. Please read disclosure language on IC Contact page.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. 12 At Intuit’s Investor Day in September last year, management highlighted the maths within their QuickBooks SME accounting software franchise, whereby any improvement in the success rates (i.e.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

There was a great article in ThinkAdvisor in 2015 that provided an example of how the options written on IUL work. Source: Sara’s Grillo’s interpretation of knowledge imparted by ThinkAdvisor 2015 article, “How (and why) indexed universal life really works.” What’s this now – call options??