Sun.May 12, 2024

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Top clicks this week We are in the midst of a historic bond bear market. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why TIPS are more attractive than nominal bonds at this point. (morningstar.com) Charlie Munger was constantly learning and "unlearning." (davisfunds.com) Stocks have stopped going up. (sherwood.news) Don't take your investing advice from TikTok. (ritholtz.com) The number of single-stock ETFs is growing.

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The Destiny of Demographics

A Wealth of Common Sense

Demographics are destiny but the reactions to that destiny aren’t set in stone. Take a look at how things have changed from 2010 to today along with where we’re going in the future: The largest age brackets today are in the 30-34 and 35-39 range. Hello millennials. By the 2030s and 2040s the largest cohorts will be in their 30s to 50s. But look at how the older buckets will slowly fill up over time.

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Sunday links: selling a product

Abnormal Returns

Markets No news is good news for the stock market. (tker.co) The stock market has gone nowhere the past 10 weeks. (allstarcharts.com) What Wall Street jargon really means. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Companies Apple ($AAPL) is now taking AI seriously. (nytimes.com) Adobe ($ADBE) is walking a fine line when it comes to AI. (theatlantic.com) Funds Mutual funds just keep closing.

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[cdata[ Ensuring a Secure Retirement: Strategies to Supplement Social Security ]]

oXYGen Financial

![CDATA[ Crafting wise financial plans for retirement is imperative for ensuring comfortability in your golden years. These plans are particularly crucial if you anticipate leaning heavily on Social Security benefits and lack considerable retirement savings to fall back on. Luckily, there are strategies you can follow to live frugally and maximize your current resources, paving the way for your.

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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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Let's Have Some Fun(d)!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

YieldMax promoted the one year anniversary of the YieldMax NVDA Option Income Strategy ETF (NVDY). The fund is a single stock, covered call fund with a crazy high yield. More correctly, it is synthetically long the stock, buying a call and selling a put for the stock exposure and then selling a call against that combo. The chart compares it to the underlying common stock and a 2X version from GraniteShares.

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2024 IRS Inflation Adjustments to Gift, Estate and GST Tax Exemptions and Exclusions Explained

Wealth Management

2024 IRS Inflation Adjustments to Gift, Estate and GST Tax Exemptions and Exclusions Explained

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Sunday Night Futures

Calculated Risk

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of May 12, 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 $78.26 per barrel and Brent at $82.79 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $70, and Brent was at $75 - so WTI oil prices are up about 10% year-over-year.

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Ashley Goodall on “The Problem With Change” and Why Great Leaders Value Stability Over Disruption

Steve Sanduski

Guests: Ashley Goodall , a leadership expert and the author of a thought-provoking new book, The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance. In a Nutshell: The tech boom popularized the idea that companies have to move fast, break things, and disrupt before they’re disrupted. But change for the sake of change can be a catalyst for confusion.

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Trends in Educational Attainment in the U.S. Labor Force

Calculated Risk

The first graph shows the unemployment rate by four levels of education (all groups are 25 years and older) through April 2024. Note: This is an update to a post from a few years ago. Unfortunately, this data only goes back to 1992 and includes only three recessions (the stock / tech bust in 2001, and the housing bust/financial crisis, and the 2020 pandemic).

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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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Q2 2024 Update: Real-Time Risk Exposure Report

Advisor Perspectives

As institutional investors, we most often represent risk as standard deviation or tracking error. But when we implement changes in our portfolios, the real-time risk happens much faster.

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Individual Stock Risk

Tobias Financial

We recently had our Quarterly Market Update Webinar, which you can replay here. However, we are excited to delve deeper into a crucial aspect of investing with our Portfolio Manager, Charles “Chad” NeSmith, CFA, CFP®. Chad is here to provide some extra credit by discussing individual stock risk compared to the risk associated with holding mutual funds or ETFs.

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Market Drama

Zoe Financial

Market Drama Featuring Zoe CEO & Founder, Andres Garcia-Amaya, CFA May 13, 2024 Watch Time: 3 minutes Welcome to this week’s Market Drama! Stock Market Updates: The S&P 500 was up 1.9% for the week, up 9.5% for the year, less than 1% from its record highs (3rd consecutive week where we see gains for the S&P) Nasdaq was up 1.1% for the week, up 8.9% for the year.

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DeepMind CEO Targets $100 Billion-Plus AI Drug Discovery Business With AlphaFold

Advisor Perspectives

Google DeepMind has released a new version of AlphaFold, a landmark tool for predicting protein structures, that puts the artificial intelligence software on a path to make breakthroughs in biology research and bolster a business that Google’s AI chief says could be worth north of $100 billion.

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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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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Modern Curse of Overoptimization : My current working definition of overoptimization goes like this: overoptimization has occurred when the introduction of immense amounts of information into a human system produces conditions that allow for some players within that system to maximize their comparative advantage, without overtly breaking the rules, in a way that (intentional or not) creates meaningful

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Active or Passive? Seeking Solutions to ESG Confusion

Advisor Perspectives

Active management can help investors address some of the especially tricky issues in sustainable equity portfolios.

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Bowman Sees Fed On Hold With No 2024 Cuts With Inflation Lingering

Advisor Perspectives

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said she doesn’t expect it will be appropriate for the Fed to cut interest rates in 2024, pointing to persistent inflation in the first several months of the year.

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The Rerating Horserace

Advisor Perspectives

Amit Dholakia of Franklin Mutual Series explains why some US capital goods companies may be off to the races after years of merely plodding along.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a