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MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

She advises institutional clients on investment strategies and portfolio objectives, working alongside global client advisers and product strategists across public and private markets. She was named to CIO Magazone’s “40-Under-40” (2017) and received the Industry Innovation Award/Power 100 in 2019.

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MiB: Jon McAuliffe, the Voleon Group

The Big Picture

We discuss his career in machine learning, from Amazon’s recommendation engine to using AI to manage portfolios. The firm applies machine learning to a four step process of data assembly, Prediction Engine, Portfolio Construction, and Execution.

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What Else Might be Driving Sentiment?

The Big Picture

I run through 30 charts in 30 minutes that explain where we are in the economic cycle, what markets are doing, and what it means to their portfolios. Since 2019, Households invested more, home values jumped, and savings levels have risen. This quarter, it was Sentiment.

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Supply Chain Is 40% of Inflation

The Big Picture

inflation over the 2019-21 period was due to the jump in demand for goods while 40 percent owed to supply-side issues that magnified the impact of this higher demand.”. My job is not to give policy advice to the Fed, but to interpret what they are doing and its most likely impact on our portfolios.

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In The Long Run, Stocks Outperform Bonds… Or Do They?

Nerd's Eye View

Every document that considers the facts around any particular asset class will invariably include that disclaimer, but constructing a portfolio consisting of a mix of equities, fixed income, and other assets requires investors and advicers to make some fundamental assumptions around long-term expected returns and correlations between assets.

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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.

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Indexing is Well Understood

The Big Picture

A portfolio of passive low-cost indexes should make up the core of your holdings. Previously : Winner Takes All Applies to Stocks, Too (August 1, 2019) Wasn’t Passive Supposed to Blow Up During the Next Crash? It’s not that you need to be smart but rather, you just have to not be stupid.