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ATM: Valuation is an Exercise in Faith with Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

 ATM: Valuation is an exercise in faith with Aswath Damodaran. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business is known as the Dean of Valuation. . ~~~ About this week’s guest: Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business is known as the Dean of Valuation.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 15–16)

Nerd's Eye View

Which, if implemented under the new administration, could provide relief for investment advisers, particularly smaller firms that already have to balance compliance with client service, marketing, and the other duties that go into running a firm.

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MiB: Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest 

The Big Picture

We discuss Chancellor’s history as an analyst interested in speculative bubbles, which led him to write a research paper on valuations and why the dotcom bubble looks a lot like other historical bubbles. He co-authored the definitive book on ETFs, “ A Comprehensive Guide To Exchange-Traded Funds ,” for the CFA Institute.

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At the Money: Stock Picking vs. Value Investing 

The Big Picture

He co-hosts the Behind the Markets podcast with Wharton finance Professor Jeremy Siegel and has helped update and revise Siegel’s Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies. Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation.

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Tuesday links: the case for diversification

Abnormal Returns

Strategy High uncertainty decisions, like investing, are by definition difficult. bloomberg.com) SpaceX's valuation keeps rising, due in part to Starlink's success. behaviouralinvestment.com) Do commodities have a role to play in a long-term, strategic asset allocation?

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At the Money: Shareholder Yield

The Big Picture

Meb Faber : Most common definition is total cash payout, meaning cash dividends plus net stock buybacks net being a very key word there. Because of the valuation gap looks about the best it’s ever looked, uh, over the past decade. So Meb, let’s start with the basics. How do you define what shareholder yield is?

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Bottoming?

The Big Picture

Some are known and already priced in, more are ambiguous, not fully reflected in market prices, and some are random surprises that by definition markets have not accounted for. When investors look forward, we (collectively) make probabilistic bets as to the odds of events occurring and the impact of those future events once they do occur.

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