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The Market Gapitalization

The Irrelevant Investor

A report that I look forward to reading, okay skimming, every year is the Credit Suisse global investment returns yearbook. One of the more remarkable statistics in the new release can be found in emerging and frontier markets. These countries account for 40% of world GDP and 68% of the world population, yet they represent just 12% of the world's investable market capitalization.

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Long-Term Planning for Founders & Builders: A “Phase-Gate” Process

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Long-Term Planning for Founders & Builders: A “Phase-Gate” Process ajackson Fri, 03/01/2019 - 16:33 The evolution of a business—from the initial concept idea to a thriving business model, to an eventual exit—is a long-term process that involves a meaningful investment today in pursuit of large rewards tomorrow. Throughout this process, entrepreneurs dedicate meaningful amounts of money and years of their lives into their businesses.

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Long-Term Planning for Founders & Builders: A “Phase-Gate” Process

Brown Advisory

Long-Term Planning for Founders & Builders: A “Phase-Gate” Process. ajackson. Fri, 03/01/2019 - 16:33. The evolution of a business—from the initial concept idea to a thriving business model, to an eventual exit—is a long-term process that involves a meaningful investment today in pursuit of large rewards tomorrow. Throughout this process, entrepreneurs dedicate meaningful amounts of money and years of their lives into their businesses.

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Killer Vees

The Irrelevant Investor

The S&P 500 just rocketed 18% higher in only 44 days. A bounce of this magnitude makes a mockery of risk management. This is the ninth time stocks have experienced a killer vee bottom since 1970. I refer to them as killer vees because they suck for everyone. It makes buy and hold investors sweat and it makes mincemeat of most tactical investors.

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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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Animal Spirits: The Rich Man’s Disease

The Irrelevant Investor

On today's Animal Spirits, we discuss: Desks were not meant to be our altars Wealthy and miserable Berkshire letter This guy actually put $10,000 into Microsoft at its IPO More credit card debt than emergency savings A survey I don't trust A different look at sequence of returns Inheritances Cell phone addictions Listen here Charts mentioned Tweets mentioned [link] The post Animal Spirits: The Rich Man’s Disease appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.

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Regret-Adjusted Returns

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According to a recent Morningstar report, "shareholders of major U.S. stock market index funds have about 40% foreign exposure, as measured by corporate revenues." Does this mean that U.S. investors already have plenty of overseas exposure, eliminating the need to diversify into international stocks? Let's go to the scorecard. The S&P 500 destroyed international stocks since 1970, with $1 growing to $127 in the U.S. and just $56 overseas.

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These Are the Goods

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Articles Where’s the Venn diagram overlap between why writers write and why readers read? By Meb Faber Think of the U.S. stock market as one holding company named USA, Inc By Ehren Stanhope Investors do not like to bet on underdogs By Ryan Krueger How many thousands of quarterly investment letters have gone out to how many millions of investors entitled “ Much Ado About Nothing “ By Josh Brown Do you really think you are going to be one of the lucky ones By Nick Maggiulli A different kind of stu