July, 2016

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Rediscovering Greatness

The Irrelevant Investor

After five years and seventy different verses, Leonard Cohen finally released Hallelujah in 1984. The mega hit that we know today came onto the scene with a deafening silence, it was an absolute failure. Cohen was performing a few years later, and musician John Cale, who was in the audience, was enthralled by the song. He did his own cover which was released in 1991, and again the song did not do much commercially.

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Investment Perspectives | Real Returns

Brown Advisory

Investment Perspectives | Real Returns achen Fri, 07/01/2016 - 06:00 One of the most penetrating and recurring questions we receive from clients is, “what is a reasonable long-term expectation for U.S. stock market returns?” Since equities typically comprise the largest single component of a balanced portfolio, they are the greatest single determinant of overall returns for institutional and private clients alike.

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Shrinking Slices, More Options, And Saying No

The Irrelevant Investor

Fifty-seven thousand, five hundred and twelve. That's the number of global funds launched between January 2005 and 2013. Just to be clear, that is not the number of funds in existence over that period, it's the number of brand new funds. This mind blowing number comes from an excellent new Morningstar study, The Rise and Fall of New Funds: Why some funds succeed and others don't.

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My Investing Mentors

The Irrelevant Investor

Everybody who ever invested a dime in the market had a mentor. And if they didn't have one when they started, it probably didn't take long before they went searching for help. Jesse Livermore said "there is nothing new on Wall Street," and because there is nothing new, lessons learned 10, 20, and even 100 years ago are as true today as they were the day they were written.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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Separating Decisions

The Irrelevant Investor

The amount of time between the scary events taking place in our country and all over the world seems to be narrowing at a rapid pace. The human tragedies that the world is experiencing are unthinkable and beyond sad to watch. But looking at the market's response to crisis , we learn that no financial decisions, specifically relating to your portfolio, should be made on the basis of geopolitical uncertainty.

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One Thing We Can All Agree On

The Irrelevant Investor

There are few things that active and passive investors agree upon, but you won't find too many people on either side of the aisle who supports closet indexers. Pretty much everyone is in full agreement that mutual funds that look like their benchmark and charge high fees should disappear yesterday. If you are going to pay higher fees than the index, you want the fund's holdings to meaningfully differ, this way it has a chance of beating it.

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Bizarro World

The Irrelevant Investor

The typical long/short equity strategy- the one that Alfred Winslow Jones used in the 1950s to put hedge funds on the map- goes long cheap stocks and short expensive ones. It's fair to say that Jones would be shocked at the current market environment. Recently, Mondelez put in a bid to buy Hershey, which would bring together two of the biggest food/snack companies in the world.

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Investment Perspectives | Real Returns

Brown Advisory

Investment Perspectives | Real Returns. achen. Fri, 07/01/2016 - 06:00. One of the most penetrating and recurring questions we receive from clients is, “what is a reasonable long-term expectation for U.S. stock market returns?” Since equities typically comprise the largest single component of a balanced portfolio, they are the greatest single determinant of overall returns for institutional and private clients alike.