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Outlook for 2018 | Confronting the Unknown

Brown Advisory

Outlook for 2018 | Confronting the Unknown. Fri, 03/30/2018 - 11:57. While February’s volatility did not materially change our asset allocation views, it reinforced to us the importance of a comprehensive discussion about how we think about risk and how we manage it. sectors due to the recent tax law overhaul.

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Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds

Brown Advisory

Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds ajackson Tue, 07/24/2018 - 09:25 For years, “defense” in portfolios—i.e., allocations to cash and core fixed income holdings—has meant a willingness to accept extremely low returns. Robust Q1 2018 earnings growth improved the valuation picture for U.S.

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Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds

Brown Advisory

Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds. Tue, 07/24/2018 - 09:25. allocations to cash and core fixed income holdings—has meant a willingness to accept extremely low returns. Louis Fed) rose above 50 bps at the end of 2016, and since then has ticked up to 180 bps as of June 30, 2018.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

As we stated in “Confronting the Unknown,” our 2018 asset allocation publication, standard deviation is “a helpful shortcut for thinking about risk, but it is not a fully effective proxy.” The “shoestring curve” below depicts these risks for a hypothetical portfolio, assuming various asset allocation targets.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

As we stated in “Confronting the Unknown,” our 2018 asset allocation publication, standard deviation is “a helpful shortcut for thinking about risk, but it is not a fully effective proxy.” The “shoestring curve” below depicts these risks for a hypothetical portfolio, assuming various asset allocation targets.

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What lessons today’s investors can learn from the collapse of the Roman Empire?

Truemind Capital

There is no price for guessing that gold as an asset class can protect against the risk created by the actions of our policy makers. That’s why we have been adding at least 10% of Gold exposure in our client’s portfolio since 2018. Rising number of cases in Europe has been affecting the economic recovery. K-shape recovery ?

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Bear Market

Dear Mr. Market

There have been a few times in recent history where we didn’t officially touch that magic number (2018 for example) but it was still an absolutely miserable environment. We would argue three, if you look at how nasty 2018 was as we alluded to earlier. On average bear markets actually hit your doorstep every 3.6