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At the Money: How To Know When The Fed Will Cut

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Jim Bianco, Chief Strategist at Bianco Research, and His firm has been providing objective and unconventional research and commentary to portfolio managers since 1990, and it is top rated amongst institutional traders. It’s a state program.

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Indexing is Well Understood

The Big Picture

Their numbers are few – they are the exception that proves the rule. of publicly traded companies that put up those giant performance numbers over an extended period of time. A portfolio of passive low-cost indexes should make up the core of your holdings. John Neff, Julian Robertson, and Will Danoff round out the list.

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Retail Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft”

The Big Picture

There are many sources of “Shrinkage” of inventory, and while there is some debate as to the largest sources, they look something like this: Employee theft : It’s the number one source of shrinkage. (My billion in 2019, according to the state agency that tracks sales tax. My experience: it is often uinderreported by companies).

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Market Commentary: Seasonal Tailwinds Ahead, but First an Election

Carson Wealth

However, this shouldn’t be a big surprise because we knew Hurricanes Milton and Helene would weigh on the numbers. September payrolls were revised down by 31,000 to +223,000 jobs, and August was revised down by 81,000 to +78,000 (the first sub-100,000 monthly payroll number since December 2020). The 2017-2019 pace was 3.1%.)

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Market Commentary: Dow Hits 40,000 As Inflation Numbers Improve

Carson Wealth

April inflation data confirmed there is no need to panic about the first-quarter numbers. That’s the slowest pace since August 2021 and not far above the 2018-2019 average of 3.6%. but well above the 2018-2019 average of 3.2%. That’s similar to the pace of 2019. Forward-looking data suggest continued disinflation ahead.

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Market Commentary: Strong Jobs Report Gets the “Good News Is Bad News” Treatment

Carson Wealth

There are a lot of opportunities to diversify portfolios so they arent as concentrated as the S&P 500. Monthly numbers can be noisy and so a 3-month average is helpful. Thats running at a solid 170,000 per month, versus an average of 166,000 in 2019. million in 2023 but well in the ballpark of what we saw in 2017-2019 (2.1

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2019 Impact Report: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

For a number of our sustainable investment strategies, we issue formal reports each year to keep clients informed about how those strategies are generating positive impact. Enclosed is our 2019 Impact Report for the Sustainable Core Fixed Income strategy. and Brown Advisory Trust Company of Delaware, LLC.