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MiB: Cliff Asness, AQR

The Big Picture

The firm can go decades where they don’t talk about value (Post-GFC to 2017), because most everything else they do was working. Over that period, expensive companies outperformed not on price but because they out-executed and grew more in terms of earnings, sales, and cash flows.

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When, Where, and for How Long

The Big Picture

December 1, 2022) Secular vs. Cyclical Markets, 2022 (May 16, 2022) Bull Market Bull (March 31, 2021) Redefining Bull and Bear Markets (August 14, 2017) Are We in A Secular Bull Market? Note we have not even referencing the valuation debate. Previously : Observations to Start 2023 (January 3, 2023) Bottoming?

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What if Dunning Kruger Explains Everything?

The Big Picture

equity valuations: “Baby-boomers’ huge flow of 401K plan contributions helped to drive equities higher; now that ~70 million Boomers are retiring, when do demographics flip this from a huge positive to a net drag?” (aka The Hidden World of Failure ) (October 23, 2020) Stock Ownership : Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S.

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Revisiting the Market Valuation in the Wake of This Year’s Decline

Validea

With the S&P 500 now close to 20% off its highs, I thought now might be a good time to look to our market valuation tool to see where things stand. But before I do that, I wanted to first cover two caveats I always put in articles about market valuation. With that all being said, let’s look at the current valuation data.

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2017 Year-End Planning Letter

Brown Advisory

2017 Year-End Planning Letter. Mon, 12/04/2017 - 13:10. We are closing 2017 with nearly the same stance as last year. Spotlights for Prudent Planning in 2017. There have been very few changes to tax law in 2017, given that Congress has been focused on the longer-term tax reform effort. Since last year’s U.S.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2017

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2017 ajackson Fri, 06/30/2017 - 09:50 Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter - Q2 2017 In this letter the team discuss the equity market euphoria and Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) valuation tool in detail.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2017

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2017. Fri, 06/30/2017 - 09:50. Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter - Q2 2017. In this letter the team discuss the equity market euphoria and Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) valuation tool in detail.