The Irrelevant Investor
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
"Russell rarely played the stock market and had little investing experience when he put around $120,000 into bitcoin in November 2017." This comes from a CNN money article, Bitcoin crash: This man lost his savings when cryptocurrencies plunged. From January 2017 through the peak in early 2018, Ethereum gained 16,915%. Any time you have something go vertical, you just know that some people are going to get swept up in the mania.
Brown Advisory
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
The Mortgage Market: Ten Years Later. ajackson. Tue, 09/11/2018 - 08:42. In San Francisco’s historic Sunset District, there is a charming 1,289 square-foot 2-bedroom home, brimming with potential. That potential stems not from its character, but from its price tag: At $995,000, it is one of the few homes on the market in San Francisco for less than $1 million, and far below the city’s staggering median home price of $1.62 million.
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The Irrelevant Investor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
The easy thing for an investment manager to do during a tough period is to over promise. The hard thing is to tell the truth. Cliff Asness does the latter in his recent piece, which is a must read for investors of all stripes. Is this a huge tactical distress / opportunity? Everyone wants me to say that it is. It would indeed be comforting to tell people “you have to stick with this or add more as it’s going to rocket upwards very soon!
The Irrelevant Investor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
On this week's Animal Spirits, we discuss: How the financial crisis still affects investors What was actually in the death of equities article Where different generations invest there money The 1970s still leave scars Tough times for liquid alts Life insurance is not for saving 150% of Facebook users delete their accounts Will half of colleges be gone?
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The Irrelevant Investor
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
When Amazon filed for its IPO in 1997, it was valued at almost $300 million ($470 million in today's dollars). Today , there are 95 private companies in the United States valued at more than $1 billion. Private companies are eschewing public markets for longer, and growing larger than they have ever before. In a related but tangential matter, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States has been cut in half over the last twenty years.
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