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Drugs in the Lab and Some Other Things

The Irrelevant Investor

I listened to a great conversation this week with Russ Roberts and Adam Cifu , MD. They spoke about Cifu's recent paper, The Case For Being a Medical Conservative which takes a good hard look at evidence-based medicine. Cifu said two things that had clear parallels to investing: 1- " Should evidence come with an expiration date?" 2-"Once we take a drug which looks great in the lab and put it in a human being, boy it's a different game.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019 ajackson Sun, 06/30/2019 - 09:50 Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter - Q2 2019 The Global Leaders team are constantly striving to improve in everything they do. One method to facilitate this is their annual offsite. In this letter, the team distill some of their learnings and share some key reflections from their recent offsite.

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The Best Ten Years Ever

The Irrelevant Investor

When people look at financial markets, they see numbers and they hear narratives. But data can hide the past and stories can distort the present. The Dow gained 8% from 1966-1982. What does this reveal about what it was like to live and invest over this 17-year period? Nothing. History books will describe the last ten years as "a period of moderate economic growth on the back of accommodative central bank policy.

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Animal Spirits: A Single Pushup

The Irrelevant Investor

On today's show we talk about Come see us at Wealth/Stack Drink your coffee How Netflix changed entertainment Comedy is dead What's going on in your savings account? Amazon is the new king of shipping Superhuman email When Vanguard changed their precious metals fund Zillow's consumer housing trends (2018) Honeymoon hashtag Bank fees, what a racket Listen here Recommendations One Giant Leap How History Gets Things Wrong Charts Tweets [link] [link] Email us at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any f

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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,Talk Your Book: Factor Investing With Invesco

The Irrelevant Investor

Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by Invesco. Click here to learn more. On today's show we talk about: Invesco Global Factor Investing Study Why is the debate about whether or not you should time factors not relevant? What are the differences between investment factors and risk factors? Who shouldn’t invest in factors? Who actually put factor investing on the map?

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Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019. ajackson. Sun, 06/30/2019 - 09:50. Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter - Q2 2019. The Global Leaders team are constantly striving to improve in everything they do. One method to facilitate this is their annual offsite. In this letter, the team distill some of their learnings and share some key reflections from their recent offsite.