Abnormal Returns

MARCH 4, 2025

(rcmalternatives.com) How skew and kurtosis should play a role in portfolio construction. alphainacademia.substack.com) Some popular economics books to avoid including "Power and Progress," by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. noahpinion.blog) Asset growth High investment has historically led to disappointing future returns.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 15, 2025

At the Money: Lessons in Allocating to Alternative Asset Classes. Investors have lots of questions when allocating to these asset classes: How much capital do you need? What percentage of your portfolio should be allocated? He wrote the book, Private Equity Deals: Lessons in investing, dealmaking and operations.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

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. You can find all of our earlier podcasts on your favorite platforms here.

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The Irrelevant Investor

MAY 14, 2023

Today’s Talk Your Book is presented by Fidelity Digital Assets: On today’s show, we are joined again by Jack Neureuter, Research Analyst at Fidelity Digital Assets to discuss listener mailbag questions on crypto and Bitcoin. On today’s show, we discuss: What is the best way to buy Bitcoin?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Investors have lots of questions when allocating to this trading asset class, including how much capital do you need? What percentage of your portfolio should be allocated? His latest book is Private Equity Deals: Lessons in investing, dealmaking, and operations. If I recall, Greg Zuckerman’s book on Jim Simons.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

MAY 15, 2023

Today’s Talk Your Book is presented by Fidelity Digital Assets: On today’s show, we are joined again by Jack Neureuter, Research Analyst at Fidelity Digital Assets to discuss listener mailbag questions on crypto and Bitcoin. On today’s show, we discuss: What is the best way to buy Bitcoin?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 13, 2022

This week, we speak with Kenneth Tropin, chairman and founder of Graham Capital Management , a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund with $18 billion in assets under management. The fund has flourished, and evolved multiple quantitative strategies, now running 19 separate portfolios across a variety of asset classes.

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Calculated Risk

MARCH 11, 2025

Most of these gains in Treasury and Agency MBS assets were funded with increases in very short duration interest-bearing Federal Reserve liabilities, mainly deposits of depository institutions (reserves) and Reverse Repos. After all, Treasury notes close to maturity are by their nature short maturity assets!)

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The firm manages or advises on about $250 billion in advisor assets. Norton’s responsibilities include equity, alternative and fixed income research, asset allocation, and portfolio management. We discuss how her career evolved from an economist covering PPI at BLS to an analyst at Morningstar to a portfolio manager to CIO.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 26, 2022

Our previous discussions (debates really) were over the traditional model of brokerage I push back against versus the fee-based fiduciary asset management I embrace. This made me chuckle, as we had discussed this level of unsuitable and inappropriate asset management for years, with me offering an endless parade of examples.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2023

He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published widely in journals. His next book, “The Corporate Lifecycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications,” will be published in December. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 12, 2023

This week, we speak with asset management expert Ted Seides , founder of Capital Allocators. His most recent book is “ Capital Allocators: How the world’s elite money managers lead and invest ;” he is also the host of the popular “ Capital Allocators” podcast , which reached 16 million downloads in June.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management discusses the best ways to responsibly manage crypto assets. His firm runs over $10 billion in client crypto assets. How can investors get exposure to the space? was hard to use. Matt Hougan : Yeah.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 10, 2024

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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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

January 2024 How major asset classes performed in January 2024. collabfund.com) Four steps to build a no-fuss portfolio including eliminating redundant accounts. wapo.st) What you need to know about booking travel on your credit card booking site. on.spdji.com) Strategy Overconfidence is a killer for investors.

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Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 21, 2023

Asset allocation Asset allocation is not a science. calculatedriskblog.com) Earlier on Abnormal Returns Adviser links: reducing portfolio volatility. newsletter.abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media The subjects of Michael Lewis' books often go onto lucrative speaking gigs. Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Barron's had a very quick look at the recent popularity of private assets to try to figure out whether investors should wade into the space. Another snippet from Barron's was the suggestion from Thad Davis of Aureus Asset Management to allocate 7% of a portfolio to private credit to get a 7% spread over SOFR which works out to 11-12%.

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Abnormal Returns

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Markets Every major asset class, except commodities, is set for an up 2023. nytimes.com) Zeke Faux's "Number Go Up" isn't really a book about crypto. ft.com) Triple-levered anything can wreck your portfolio. capitalspectator.com) The drop in bond yields reversed a lot of market trends.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

kitces.com) Daniel Crosby reads another chapter from his forthcoming book "The Soul of Money." trillion in assets. kitces.com) How direct indexing can be used in bond portfolios. standarddeviationspod.com) The biz Fidelity now oversees some $12.6 riabiz.com) Does Citigroup ($C) have a path forward in wealth management?

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Abnormal Returns

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

demystifyingmarkets.com) Charlie Munger's greatest asset may have been a lifelong friendship. safalniveshak.com) Books A review of “The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions” by Victor Haghani and James White. etf.com) How much personal trading is too much for a mutual fund portfolio manager?

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JULY 15, 2024

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Standpoint Asset Management: On today’s show, we spoke with Eric Crittenden, CIO of Standpoint Asset Management to discuss trend following and all-weather portfolios. See here for the Content Library and here for Standpoint’s monthly update.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Standpoint Asset Management: On today’s show, we spoke with Eric Crittenden, CIO of Standpoint Asset Management to discuss trend following and all-weather portfolios. See here for the Content Library and here for Standpoints monthly update.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Franklin Templeton: We had Josh Greco, Senior VP and Senior Institutional Portfolio Manager for Franklin Income Investors to discuss Franklin Templeton’s Income Focus ETF.

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The Big Picture

MAY 31, 2024

Sherman oversees and administers DoubleLine’s investment management subcommittee; serves as lead portfolio manager for multisector and derivative-based strategies; and is a member of the firm’s executive management and fixed-income asset allocation committees.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

He is also the lead senior portfolio manager on all long equity strategies for the applied equity advisors team, as well as a member of the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee. Slimmon describes his concentrated portfolios — either 30 US stocks or 20 global stocks — as a way to avoid closet indexing.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

AUGUST 26, 2024

Today’s Talk Your Book is sponsored by Calamos Investments: On today’s show, we spoke with Brandon Nelson, Senior Portfolio Manager for Calamos to discuss investing in the small-cap space.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

He’s published 21 books. He was chairman of the Yale’s Endowment Investment Committee and his, not only did he write 21 books, his new book, rethinking Investing, is just a delightful snack. I found the book excellent. And modern portfolio theory was kind of just coming around. Is That right?

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The Big Picture

MAY 17, 2024

She explains what she is concerned about: “The areas that I worry about are that bottomless pit of “unmarked” assets that have doubled or quadrupled in size and asset allocation… Think about the average teacher or firefighter pension plan – it’s 30% illiquid today versus 5% back in the 2000s. Dick Ubik by Philip K.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The firm launched in 2019 with around $2 billion in initial assets, and became one of the fastest-growing emerging funds over the past few years. They now manage $7 billion in assets. Previously, he worked as a Portfolio Manager at Citadel Global Equities and as an Analyst at Millennium Management.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 31, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that, according to a recent survey, RIAs are considering metrics for growth other than assets under management, from the number of clients to diversifying the services they offer.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To find out more, I speak with Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer of WisdomTree, leading the firm’s investment strategy team in the construction of equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. Present value of future cash flows, any asset is present value of future cash flows.

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Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 13, 2024

Bonds Bonds are back as portfolio balance. ft.com) Fund management Index funds have succeeded in spite of the asset management industry. ft.com) Fund management Index funds have succeeded in spite of the asset management industry. nytimes.com) Asset managers keep snapping up boutique private credit managers.

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Trade Brains

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

(JPM) is a financial holding corporation that, through its subsidiaries, provides solutions for consumer and commercial banking, investment banking, processing financial transactions, and asset management. The amount of assets under management was $3 trillion. Price to Book Value (%) 6.52 Price to Book Value (%) 2.6

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. Elizabeth Burton : Hi Barry.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 30, 2024

And on today’s edition of At the Money, we’re going to discuss how you can participate in shareholder yield and get more out of dividends to help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio. The firm manages numerous ETFs, including those that focus on shareholder yield and is approaching 3 billion in client assets.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 9, 2024

Named one of the 25 most influential people by Investment Advisor, his breakthrough book, “ What Investors Really Want , ” changed how we view investor motivations. His new book is “ A Wealth of Well-Being: A Holistic Approach to Behavioral Finance.”

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

David Layton is the chief executive officer of Partners Group , a global private markets firm with more than $135 billion in assets under management. Today, they have 1,800 employees worldwide serving 800 institutional clients, and their wholly owned portfolio company employ 250,000 people. Capital Advisors.

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