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MiB: Savita Subramanian, US Equity & Quantitative Strategy, Bank of America

The Big Picture

We discuss what her valuation models are showing: “I think that where we are today is actually a reasonably healthy point for equities…I don’t worry as much about big cap companies that everybody is tracking and watching and monitoring.” Subramanian is on the advisory board of the UCLA Master of Financial Engineering program.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And whilst on a relative basis, those assets outperformed what was going on in a lot of other private firms, you know, it was certainly, I think we had 169 positions on the book at the time. So you’re Chief Investment officer of Asset and Wealth Management.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

The Big Picture

His book on the history of speculation and manias and bubbles, “Devil Take the Hindmost” is just legendary. His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

Two, I got my first Wall Street bonus three, I sold another book, which meant I got a big advance. I think it’s very hard to say stocks are objectively cheap because all of these valuation metrics have, have become unreliable over the decades as the nature of the stock market has changed. And a, a number of things happened.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jul’23

Truemind Capital

The recent rally in the market has made the valuations more expensive compared to historical standards. However, heightened valuations do not provide comfort in replicating higher returns of the past in the medium term. Valuations across all sectors do not offer any margin of safety.

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Equity markets at a crossroads – What is the way forward?

Truemind Capital

However, we can think of three possible scenarios ahead: Irrespective of what scenario will pan out, equity valuations inevitably have to adjust according to the principle of mean reversion. This strategy based on possibilities is called tactical asset allocation which always leads to higher portfolio returns at a given level of risk.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

With Tim Ferriss and Adam Robinson Books Music that had ben merely good, the rock and roll soundtrack of our lives, turned into rapture and prophecy. By Drew Voros When you chase outperformance, you catch underperformance. By William Finnegan The post These Are the Goods appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.