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The Irrelevant Investor

"There’s a little child inside all of our brains that can’t stand to watch other people riding a money train that we’re not on." I wrote this in June 2017 when Bitcoin was all anyone was talking about. It was hard not to get swept up in the mania. That's what bubbles do. They suck us in. The other thing bubbles do is they pop, which is where we are today.

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Low Correlation in Stocks: A Good Opportunity for Active Managers

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Low Correlation in Stocks: A Good Opportunity for Active Managers achen Tue, 06/19/2018 - 09:13 In equity markets, even the best active managers tend to struggle when stocks are all moving in lock step with each other. But when there’s more differentiation in returns across stocks and sectors, there’s more opportunity for managers to generate alpha.

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Animal Spirits: The Mother of All Credit Bubbles

The Irrelevant Investor

On this week's Animal Spirits, we discuss: Howard Marks on investing without people The mother of all credit bubbles Time to not freak out about debt A future without Buffett Will Berkshire eventually get broken up by activists? The two most indebted companies in the world Tech loses its appetite for bonds WeWork is worth quite a bit of money Hindsight bias in dollar-weighted returns Millennials and money (survey) Predicting the World Cup Is Like Trying to Beat the Market Silicon prairie The ri

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Low Correlation in Stocks: A Good Opportunity for Active Managers

Brown Advisory

Low Correlation in Stocks: A Good Opportunity for Active Managers. achen. Tue, 06/19/2018 - 09:13. In equity markets, even the best active managers tend to struggle when stocks are all moving in lock step with each other. But when there’s more differentiation in returns across stocks and sectors, there’s more opportunity for managers to generate alpha.

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Fall In Love With the Month-End Close

It's the time of year to give our close process some TLC. Join us in this one hour webinar where we discuss how to adopt leading practices and infuse technology into the month-end close process to improve our experience and increase our productivity during month-end and quarter-end close. Learning Objectives: This course's objective is to understand how the month-end close can be improved with automation and adoption of leading practices.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles What I thought was a major career failure turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to my career By Blair duQuesnay Learn to love the micro-stakes arena By Tommy Tranfo If things like research department headcount or manager tenure had any predictive value, then you could throw away your Bloomberg terminal and just use LinkedIn By Josh Brown Capital gains is a hell of a drug.

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