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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Also on the site Five thoughts on the power of letting go. (abnormalreturns.com) Top clicks this week What happens when you invest right before a bear market? (awealthofcommonsense.com) Solana is at new all-time highs. (allstarcharts.com) Consumer Reports' top ten list for 2024 is filled with hybrids. (cnbc.com) The Magnificent Seven is all anybody can talk about in the U.S.

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Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory UP 17.8% YoY; New Listings up 11.9% YoY

Calculated Risk

What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For January, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 7.9% YoY, and down 40% compared to January 2019. Now - on a weekly basis - inventory is up 17.8% YoY, and that would still put inventory down about 38% compared to February 2019.

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Sunday links: active tilts

Abnormal Returns

Markets These five groups are leading the market higher. (allstarcharts.com) The U.S. stock market has outperformed developed and emerging markets over the past 16 years. (twitter.com) One reason why small caps are struggling relative to large caps. (apolloacademy.com) Strategy Betting on stocks is a bet on human ingenuity. (tker.co) How to combat recency bias.

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What Does a Healthy Correction Look Like?

A Wealth of Common Sense

From the bottom of the quick 10% correction in late-October of last year, the S&P 500 is up more than 25%: Markets often move fast which is why timing them can be so tricky. The market obviously can’t keep up this pace forever. New highs in the stock market tend to lead to more new highs but sometimes the stock market needs a breather, even in a bull market.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Fundamental Analysis Of Shakti Pumps – Financials, Future Plans & More

Trade Brains

The core sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, infrastructure, and building services, constantly require pumps, which facilitates the growing importance of the pump sector in the country. As the landscape of water pumping evolved, this company made strategic moves that set it apart. In this article, we embark on a fundamental analysis of Shakti Pumps, a company that has turned out to be a 9x multi-bagger from a low of COVID-19.

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Talk Your Book: Private Investing for Fiduciaries

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Opto Investments: See here for more information on Optos private market solutions for wealth managers On today’s show, we discuss: How Opto Investments was started Why private markets are not scalable for traditional RIAs How Opto is optimizing for private markets The extraordinary growth of private credit, and why that may be an issue Differences in target allocation betw.

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Unlock more growth with strategic business processes

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

By Antoinette Tuscano There may be many times as a financial advisor you wish that you only had to meet with clients. There’s more that goes into being an advisor than that though, even if you have a team you delegate to. The more people involved in your practice, the more important good processes become for increasing efficiency, consistency, scalability, client satisfaction, and helping with compliance and legal issues.

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Sunday Night Futures

Calculated Risk

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of March 3, 2024 Monday: • No major economic releases scheduled. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are down slightly (fair value). Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $79.97 per barrel and Brent at $83.55 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $80, and Brent was at $86 - so WTI oil prices are unchanged year-over-year.

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China Quants Making Big Cap Bets Weather Stock Turmoil

Advisor Perspectives

A group of systematic investors betting on large Chinese companies has emerged largely unscathed from this year’s “quant quake” that’s sparked turmoil in the stock market and a crackdown by regulators.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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[cdata[ Who Is John Galt and Why Is Insurance SO Expensive? ]]

oXYGen Financial

![CDATA[ As a throwback to the iconic novel Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, the rhetorical question that was reiterated throughout the book was "who is John Galt?" It was a question that dismissed a concern that was brought by someone who was frustrated with the state of things. It was also a question that was stated as an act of exhausted acceptance to the new status quo.

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How Tax-Healthy Are Your Clients’ Portfolios? The Form 1099-DIV Can Tell You

Advisor Perspectives

Not all investment returns are the same. Some are taxed at a higher rate than others. The Form 1099-DIV can help you analyze the Investment Tax Health of your clients. By looking at how much the investor received in different investment returns, you can calculate how much federal tax they will need to pay.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Errors Tour: How the Pros Bungled the End of Zero Interest Rates : A look at the ways forecasters, traders and executives missed the mark over the past two years. And at the lessons learned. ( Bloomberg ) • IRS chief: Tax evasion by millionaires and billionaires tops $150 billion a year : The nation’s millionaires and billionaires are evading more than $150 billion a year in taxes, according to the he

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Bitcoin ETF Record Gets Broken Yet Again on $612 Million Inflow

Advisor Perspectives

Another day, another record across the booming world of Bitcoin ETFs – fueled by fear of missing out on the latest crypto rally.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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Three Minutes on India

Advisor Perspectives

Portfolio Manager Peeyush Mittal, CFA, offers his views on the outlook for India, the coming elections and longer-term themes.

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Chart of the Week: Advisors Looking at Municipal Bonds Choices

Advisor Perspectives

Investors continue to turn to low-cost core taxable bond ETFs in 2024. The Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) and the iShares Core Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) gathered $2.5 billion and $2.1 billion, respectively, as of late February.

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Altman’s $7 Trillion Semiconductor Vision: Impact on AI?

Advisor Perspectives

OpenAI leader Sam Altman made headlines earlier this month, touting a semiconductor project requiring trillions of dollars.

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