Dear Mr. Market

APRIL 2, 2025

Market: This is perhaps one of our favorite articles and times of the year; not necessarily because of basketball but rather it allows us the opprtunity to articulate our main investment themes we see playing out for the remainder of the year. Who will be this years champion? Lets break it down ( click here to see the full bracket).

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Abnormal Returns

JANUARY 5, 2025

(noahpinion.blog) The proposed Strive Bitcoin Bond ETF will invest in the debt of companies buying Bitcoin. etf.com) 2025 is setting up to be a consequential year for the Vanguard Group. riabiz.com) Portfolio simplicity keeps paying off. humbledollar.com) Whether you have an advisor or not, a financial checklist for 2025.

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Abnormal Returns

DECEMBER 25, 2024

theretirementmanifesto.com) What's changing for retirement in 2025. morningstar.com) Investing Three easy ways to simplify your portfolio. morningstar.com) Boring is always appropriate when it comes to investing resolutions.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 10, 2025

David Nadig, “ Rabbithole ” March 7, 2025 I had fun chatting with Dave Nadig about philosophy, behavior, and investing ( video after the jump). Question : “ Barry, your book How Not to Invest dissects numerous financial misconceptions. But let’s set aside markets and investing strategies entirely.

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Abnormal Returns

MARCH 4, 2025

Skew Why investors avoid positive-skew investment strategies. rcmalternatives.com) How skew and kurtosis should play a role in portfolio construction. noahpinion.blog) Asset growth High investment has historically led to disappointing future returns. morningstar.com) Research The 2025 Global Investment Yearbook is here.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 13, 2025

And so we're excited to announce that, for 2025, our major company initiative will be a complete redesign and rebuild of our Members Section! And we continue to expand the types of CE we provide as well, including the ability for Canadian CFP certificants to earn CE credit from Kitces (effective immediately for 2025!), Read More.

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Validea

JANUARY 7, 2025

Discover how Valideas Warren Buffett-inspired ‘Patient Investor’ strategy can help you identify high-quality, long-term investments even in changing market conditions. Visit Validea.com to access in-depth stock analysis and tools designed to emulate Buffetts proven investment principles.

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Validea

JANUARY 4, 2025

Validea’s Warren Buffett strategy, also known as our “Patient Investor” strategy, is inspired by the investment principles of Warren Buffett, as interpreted from the book Buffettology by Mary Buffett. This strategy aims to emulate Buffett’s long-term, value-based approach to investing.

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Darrow Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The idea of living off dividends in retirement sounds nice, but investors often don’t realize how much money they’ll need invested to generate enough income from dividends to cover lifestyle expenses. So historically, every $1 million invested would yield annual dividend income of $19,800 on average… before tax.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

February 5, 2025) At five trillion dollars, hedge funds have never been more popular — or less hedged. What percentage of your portfolio should be allocated? He learned about alts working under the legendary David Swensen at the Yale University Investments Office. Is this the right investment vehicle for me?

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Your Richest Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Even though 2025 has only just begun, there are already big changes unfolding that could impact your wallet. That decision is a departure from their announcement at the September meeting to cut rates a full percentage point in 2025. 2025 Inflation creeps up The U.S. This was also higher than the 2.9

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Harness Wealth

JANUARY 29, 2025

April 15 marks the IRS tax return filing deadline for 2025. Contributions made by April 15, 2025, can be applied to your 2024 return, reducing taxable income. Engage in tax-loss harvesting Tax-loss harvesting is a strategy that helps investors reduce their taxable income by leveraging losses in their investment portfolios.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 17, 2025

My end-of-week morning train reads: The Plethora of Unknowns Means Questions for Bond Investors in 2025 : Private and global credit offerings could provide diversification as debt markets deal with political and policy uncertainty. Wealth of Common Sense ) Skydiving without a parachute : When bonds cant save your portfolio.

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Zoe Financial

JANUARY 28, 2025

Market Timing vs. Time in the Market Updated January 28th, 2025 Reading Time: 4 minutes Written by: The Zoe Team Though these terms may sound similar, market timing is not the same as time in the market. What do these mean, and which is a sounder investment strategy? Lets take a poll. That said, academia can be redundant.

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Tobias Financial

MARCH 11, 2025

Stay up to date with market insights from our Portfolio Manager, Charles Chad NeSmith, CFA, CFP. DISCLOSURES Tobias Financial Advisors is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC. In this update, Chad discusses inflationary and deflationary pressures, as well as the potential economic impact of tariffs.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Also in industry news this week: 43% of wealth management firms are frustrated with the effectiveness of their CRM software, spurred on by challenges with integrations and workflows, according to a recent survey The Social Security Administration this week announced a 2.5%

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Harness Wealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As the year comes to a close, now is the time to review potential financial moves to help minimize your tax burden heading into 2025. Note that for an IRA, you have until Tax Day of 2025 (April 15, 2025) to make any contributions for your 2024 taxes. The 2024 contribution limit for a Roth 401(k) or Traditional 401(k) is $23,000.

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Investing Caffeine

MARCH 25, 2025

A whole aisle of books could be written about Rothblatts impressive lifetime accomplishments, but the unique investment opportunity for investors cannot be fully understood without appreciating the person that created United Therapeutics 29 years ago in 1996. Source: United Therapeutics Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime?

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 17, 2025

Emotions start to run high during corrections and many investors become more prone to making costly investment mistakes. On top of that, factor in that the first quarter after a year with a 20% gain tends to be weak and that the past 20 years the first quarter has been weak in general, and things were ripe for some volatility early in 2025.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 10, 2025

No, no one should ever invest purely on the calendar, but March has had some nice lows over the years and as we show below, the past two decades it has been perfectly normal to see late February to early March weakness, but then a nice bounce. As uncomfortable as this recent volatility feels, know that it is the toll we must pay to invest.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the Money: Compounding Health and Wealth , with Phil Pearlman (January 22, 2025) We understand how wealth compounds over time, but did you know you can also compound your health? You invest a thousand dollars in the market, and even if the market goes up 15 percent that year, you make 150 bucks. I’m Barry Ritholtz.

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Validea

MARCH 27, 2025

Valideas Strategy of the Week series highlights time-tested investment strategies based on the insights of legendary investors. In his best-selling book, One Up on Wall Street , he broke down the art of investing into plain-English wisdom. His wit and accessible ideas helped popularize equity investing for everyday investors.

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Darrow Wealth Management

MARCH 3, 2025

Bonds, however, are more stable investments that provide income, but have much less upside. while bonds are broken down by duration and sectors (for example government bonds such as municipal or Treasury bonds or corporate bonds, including investment grade or high yield bonds), etc. Thats not their job.

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 29, 2022

According to a recent Gallup poll , more than half of American adults (58%) have money invested in the stock market. Although the median holdings (amounts invested) vary based on age, income, and other demographic factors, it’s clear that Americans see the value of investing — even if their exposure is limited to a workplace 401(k).

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Darrow Wealth Management

MARCH 13, 2025

A diversified portfolio is the cornerstone of a risk-adjusted investment strategy. Diversifying Around It: Balancing the portfolio by investing in assets that offset the concentrated position’s risk. Your concentrated position is a large technology stock, currently occupying 30% of your portfolio.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 8, 2025

This is no time for confessing At The Money: with Matt Hougan on Crypto Technology (January 8, 2025) Are you crypto-curious? Fulltranscript below. ~~~ About this weeks guest: Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management discusses the best ways to responsibly manage crypto assets.

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Darrow Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

During times of economic, financial, and political uncertainty, investors often wonder where to invest or what changes to make to their portfolio. Safety is relative and investors should always understand that any investment involves risk. Indices not available for direct investment. For illustrative purposes only.

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Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

20% Back-To-Back Years Bode Well for 2025 Many bears are back at it, claiming that because stocks are looking at back-to-back 20% gains 2025 must be doomed. The past few weeks we’ve discussed why we think this bull market is alive and well, but we also see no major reasons to expect the economy to fall into a recession in 2025.

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Harness Wealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Alternative investments offer investors access to startups, real estate, and other non-traditional opportunities beyond stocks and bonds. In this article, well explore all the details of alternative investments, the reasons behind their growth as an investment choice, and how their tax treatment differs from traditional assets.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 11, 2025

In a blogging context we look at these stocks occasionally for barbelling returns and because they are beneficiaries of private equity fees, not proxies for investing in PE. How great have the returns been for the Mag 7 stocks for the last couple of years, but so far in 2025 most of them look like they are down mid-teens to mid-20's percent.

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Carson Wealth

JANUARY 13, 2025

Current Market Volatility Normal for a Bull Market The S&P 500 is off to a bit of a rocky start in 2025, an extension of weakness in December 2024. There are a lot of opportunities to diversify portfolios so they arent as concentrated as the S&P 500. The 2025 policy rate is expected to be about 4.1% (currently at 4.4%).

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Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 11, 2023

We’re proud to say that My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. For example, a #1 seeded investment could lose right out of the gate just as a #12 could potentially win it all.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

MARCH 20, 2025

Recession Concerns & Market Volatility: How Financial Advisors Should Communicate With Clients As financial advisors , youre well aware that so far the 2025 financial market has been more unpredictable than a toddler. Right now, your clients dont just need portfolio management; they need perspective. They need to hear from you.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 30, 2025

Is 2025 going to be a good year for SCHD as a broad based or core holding relative to other strategies or factors? There's no way to know of course but if 2025 turns out to be a bad year for the S&P 500 then there's a pretty good probability of SCHD doing better than market cap weighting (MCW) and maybe most of the other factors.

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Validea

MARCH 4, 2025

Moreover, shareholder yield serves as a valuable tool for comparing investment opportunities across different sectors and market cycles. Discover how Valideas Warren Buffett-inspired ‘Patient Investor’ strategy can help you identify high-quality, long-term investments even in changing market conditions.

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Validea

MARCH 7, 2025

This feature blends educational investing insights with potential investment ideas, helping you better understand and apply these time-tested approaches in your own investment process. Small Cap Growth Models Risk and Return Stats Since 2003, the ten stock, tax efficient portfolio has delivered a 13.5%

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