The Better Letter

OCTOBER 5, 2023

However, as Mandelbrot is careful to emphasize, it is empty hubris to think that we can somehow master market volatility. When one looks closely at financial-market data, seemingly unexplained accidents routinely appear. The financial markets are inherently dangerous places to be, Mandelbrot stresses.

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Investing Caffeine

JANUARY 2, 2024

You may have witnessed some fireworks on New Year’s Eve, but those weren’t the only fireworks exploding. The last two months of 2023 finished with a bang! More specifically, over this short period, the S&P 500 index skyrocketed +13.7%, NASDAQ +16.8%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average +14.0%.

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Investing Caffeine

MAY 2, 2022

As you can see from the chart below, there have been no shortage of issues and events to worry about over the last 15 years (2007 – 2022): 2008-2009: Financial Crisis 2010: Flash Crash (electronic trading collapse) 2011: Debt Ceiling – Eurozone Collapse 2012: Greek Debt Crisis – Arab Spring (anti-government protests) 2012: Presidential Elections (..)

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 3, 2015

No central bank has ever wound down such massive stimulus, so the potential impact on the economy and financial markets is not clear. The easing helped stabilize financial markets, reduced the risk of deflation and resuscitated the economy and job growth. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst.

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Investing Caffeine

APRIL 1, 2022

Even our government is now attempting to increase supply by releasing up to 180 million barrels of oil from our country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (the largest release in the almost 50-year history of the reserve ), while also pushing for penalties on those energy companies sitting on unused permits (i.e.,

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Investing Caffeine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Today, worries include Federal Reserve policy; restarting of school loan repayments (after a three-year hiatus); a potential government shutdown; an auto and Hollywood strike; higher oil prices; and a presidential election that is heating up. Many of these worries are nothing new.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

THE “JAPANIFICATION” QUESTION Investors who were active in the late 1980s will recall that asset prices in Japan reached extreme levels as money poured into the country from all over the world, propelled by extraordinary economic growth. government debt is nearly 110%, compared to 82% ten years ago and 32% in 1981 (its modern-day low point).

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Investors who were active in the late 1980s will recall that asset prices in Japan reached extreme levels as money poured into the country from all over the world, propelled by extraordinary economic growth. government debt is nearly 110%, compared to 82% ten years ago and 32% in 1981 (its modern-day low point). PORTFOLIO IMPLICATIONS.

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WiserAdvisor

JANUARY 8, 2023

A lot of investors use the New Year to review their portfolios, change asset allocations, and prepare for the coming months. This is the right time to find out about future investment trends and concerns that may impact you financially. government. Financial advisors are an integral component of financial planning.

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Investing Caffeine

MARCH 1, 2022

If you were the chief executive of a newspaper, television, or magazine company, what headline stories would you run to generate the most viewers and readers? Which subjects will you choose to make me impulsively grab a magazine in the grocery line, keep me glued to the television news, or suck me in to click-bait advertisements on the web?

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Investing Caffeine

JANUARY 23, 2024

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Investing Caffeine

JANUARY 19, 2024

Drawing from professional and personal life lessons, Wade shares his knowledge about navigating market trends, building investment strategies, and also discuss the books he has authored.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2016

As we write this letter, financial markets are grappling with plenty of controversy and uncertainty, from the aftershocks of the dramatic fall in oil prices, to the potential impact of a British exit from the EU, to the implications of the pending U.S. The interest rate is determined up front and governed by IRS rules.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

T he stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years 2019/2020/2021, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. After this meteoric multi-year rise, stock values started to come back to earth in 2022, and the rocket ship turned into a roller coaster during January.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

We ended up buying, this is one of the wonderful things about financial markets and degrees of completeness. Entities like the s and p 500 growth fund are far more concentrated than is legally allowed by the 40 act, by which they’re governed. That’s amazing leverage. They are too concentrated relative to that.

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WiserAdvisor

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Asset allocation is the primary building block of any investment strategy. It is the process of spreading investments across various asset classes to optimize the balance between risk and potential returns. Below are the key terms associated with asset allocation.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) CHABRAN: And find a reason why they would allocate there. So I think we’ve now entered a period where we have to swallow this whole mispriced, over-levered assets out there. So I’m actually very optimistic that all asset owners, asset allocators, the one can be nimble.

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Truemind Capital

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Even after reducing the balance sheet size from $8 trillion to $7 trillion, the impact on liquidity has not been much due to excessive spending by the US Government. The current fiscal deficit of the US Government is expected to be 7% in the current financial year, which is multi-decade high. Fitch Ratings downgraded U.S.

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Investing Caffeine

JULY 5, 2023

Throughout history the prominent Wall Street mantra has been, “Don’t fight the Fed.” In essence, the credo instructs investors to sell stocks when the Federal Reserve increases its Federal Funds interest rate target and buy stocks when the Fed cuts its benchmark objective.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I do think that the other factor that has shifted demonstrably and deserves more airtime is the idea that, you know, if you look at the areas of risk today across the spectrum, corporates and consumers were just given a bunch of money from the Fed and the government. Not necessarily on corporate or consumer balance sheet.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

And so I worked a lot on the asset allocation side. Again, as I said, we’ve worked in asset allocation. ’ Actually, at the time, very early on, because it was blatantly obvious that you had two sides of the markets, right? All my friends ask me about that don’t work in markets. Oh, really?’

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Investing Caffeine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

and other Western allies may retaliate and escalate tensions in the region, which would unlikely be received well by the financial markets. If Iran, or Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, throws their hat into the Israel-Hamas war ring, the U.S.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to the financial markets, money continues to go where it is treated best. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit For years, market critics and pessimists have been screaming doom-and-gloom as it relates to the United States. The story goes, the U.S. Well, if that’s the case, then why has the value of the U.S.

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