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The Great Resignation Is Long Over

The Big Picture

Consider these columns going back to 2013 pointing out the foolishness of tax-payer subsidized corporate welfare queens (2013), and why median wages were rising ( 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2018 , 2019 ). The 2010s monetary rescue plan benefitted anybody who owned capital assets: Stocks, Bonds, and Real Estate. Now we have inflation.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Mike Greene, Simplify Asset Management , is below. If you recall, back in 2018, vol Mageddon, he was on the right side of that trade, made hundreds of millions of dollars for his firm in identifying a structural problem that was about to blow up. Mike Green : Barry, thank you for having me.

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MiB: Cliff Asness, AQR

The Big Picture

The firm has ~$100 billion in assets under management. The book is a fun romp covering the 1998-2018 era. This week, we speak with Cliff Asness , co-founder and managing partner at AQR Capital Management. An active researcher, Asness contributes to numerous publications and has received a variety of accolades, including the James R.

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Bigger is Not Always Better in Asset Management

Alpha Architect

Pastor, Stambaugh, and Taylor (2015) and Zhu (2018) provide significant evidence of decreasing returns to scale (DRS) at both the fund and industry levels. Bigger is Not Always Better in Asset Management was originally published at Alpha Architect.

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Wealthsimple Aims to Quadruple Assets to $74B in Five Years

Wealth Management

Toronto-based Wealthsimple has grown rapidly, with assets rising about 10-fold to C$25 billion since 2018, thanks in part to slick advertising and some Hollywood star power — celebrities Drake, Michael J. Fox and Ryan Reynolds are among its minority investors.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • How State Street Has Used AI to Find ‘Hidden Gems’ Since 2018 : Natural-language processing used in stock picking: Bartolini Wanted something forward-looking, dynamic, he says of the ETF. Bloomberg ) • What Recession? Some Economists See Chances of a Growth Rebound. Rieder helps to manage $2.5

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My New ETF: 100% of Upside + 0% of Downside

The Big Picture

The offering comes from Innovator Capital Management, which launched the first so-called buffer ETFs, also sometimes referred to as defined-outcome funds, in 2018.” – Bloomberg Let’s get this out of the way: I dislike any product that exchanges a portion of your potential gains in exchange for downside protection. for SPY.

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