Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
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Nerd's Eye View
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that the Treasury Department has finalized rules requiring most SEC-registered RIAs to implement risk-based Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism programs, including a requirement to report suspicious activity to Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, with firms having until January 1, 2026 to comply with the rule.
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The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
I have known Josh for nearly 15 years. Despite his writing in public that entire time, hosting two weekly shows on our YouTube channel , and showing up on CNBC three times a week, you don’t know him. Public persona aside, he is surprisingly private. I know him as well as anyone besides Sprinkles and maybe Batnick. I am going to share three things about Josh that you don’t know.
A Wealth of Common Sense
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
I enjoy slicing and dicing historical stock market returns. I’m not naive enough to assume this helps predict the future. However, studying the past can provide a baseline to help set expectations when it comes to risk and a potential range of outcomes. Here’s a different way to look at returns over various time horizons for the S&P 500 going back to 1993: This is how to read this chart: Pick a starting.
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.
Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Markets The S&P 500 returned 2.43% in August 2023. (on.spdji.com) There are too many markets at all-time highs to count. (whitecoatinvestor.com) Strategy High yields come with risk. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. (wsj.com) Good luck trying to time the stock market using valuation metrics. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Market statistics can gloss over the big picture.
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The Big Picture
AUGUST 31, 2024
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How To Make Millions As a Professional Whistleblower : A little-known provision in US law permits anyone to blow the whistle on financial fraud — and potentially take home a percentage of the funds collected. One undercover sleuth has made a wild career out of it. ( GQ ) • Why Aging Comes in Dramatic Waves in Our 40s and 60s : A new study suggests that waves of aging-relat
A Wealth of Common Sense
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
I bought a Peloton exercise bike during the early days of the pandemic. It’s convenient and the technology is pretty neat.1 But I never would have purchased shares in the company. I have a rule of thumb that anything new that’s fitness-related is a fad. I’ve seen far too many fad diets and fancy exercise equipment or videos come and go over the years.
Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Strategy Three reasons why the stock market declines. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Three reasons to buy Josh Brown's new book "You Weren’t Supposed To See That." (ritholtz.com) Semiconductors Trying to put a valuation on Nvidia ($NVDA). (aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com) TSMC's ($TSM) Arizona plant is on track for 2025 production. (bloomberg.com) Export controls are not keeping Nvidia ($NVDA) chips out of China.
Nerd's Eye View
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A cornerstone service that many financial advisors provide is education. While strategic advice is crucial, advisors also face the challenge of presenting the strategies to clients in context, explaining different financial planning concepts, and showing clients how to implement these strategies (as well as pointing out any long-term consequences). While curious, proactive clients who are ready to learn may be the ideal, this can become complicated when clients bring 'good' advice they've heard
Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant
Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The Best Way to Buy a House Right Now with Jonathan Miller , Miller Samuel (Sept 4, 2024) Buying a house in today’s climate can be challenging. Interest rates are near the highest level in 20 years. Housing inventory is near record lows. So what’s a potential home buyer to do? Jonathan Miller, President of Miller Samuel, discusses the best approaches for purchasing a home today.
A Wealth of Common Sense
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The OG financial blogger Barry Ritholtz joined me on the show this week to discuss questions about what the next recession will look like, creating an investment plan for a banker with cash on the sidelines, paying down a low interest rate mortgage and how to sell your automobile. Further Reading: The Minsky Market 1It’s pretty obvious but red for losses of 2% or worse and green for gains of 2% or more. 2All 3 have.
Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Books An excerpt from Anne Applebaum's book "Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World." (on.ft.com) Walt Hickey talks with Nate Silver author of "On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything." (numlock.com) Insights from “Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,” by William Taylor. (theconversation.com) AI How AI will change startup investing.
Nerd's Eye View
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 401st episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Zack Hubbard. Zack is the Director of Financial Planning and Participant Engagement of Greenspring Advisors, an RIA based in Towson, Maryland, that manages $2 billion of private wealth assets under management for 1,300 client households and advises on an additional $5 billion in retirement plan assets.
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Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.
Wealth Management
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Barry Gilbert, portfolio manager with the Carson Group, talks about why the firm is risk-on right now, why it prefers ETFs over mutual funds and what’s different about this market cycle.
Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Index funds How index funds have changed demand for large cap stocks. (klementoninvesting.substack.com) Research Affilitiates is launching the Deletions ETF ($NIXT) which will buy index deletions. (mutualfundobserver.com) Apple David Pierce, "Apple Pay is one of the most Apple-y Apple products the company has ever shipped." (theverge.com) People want to copy Apple ($AAPL) products but not Apple the company.
Calculated Risk
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Catching Up: New Home Sales Increased to 739,000 Annual Rate in July Brief excerpt: I'm back from Africa! I’ll be catching up on recent data over the next few days, and I’ll post some photos / videos from my trip. Last week the Census Bureau reported New Home Sales in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 739 thousand.
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A Wealth of Common Sense
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts: See here for 20% off your initial YCharts professional subscription On today’s show, we discuss: Americans Are Really, Really Bullish on Stocks Once-In-Lifetime Wall Street Rally Raises Soft-Landing Stakes Ex-Peloton CEO John Foley gets real about company crash — and his unexpected venture into home decor Economist Eugene Fama: ‘Efficient mark.
Wealth Management
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
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Abnormal Returns
AUGUST 31, 2024
Autos Demand is growing for plug-in hybrids. (wsj.com) The transition to the Tesla ($TSLA) Supercharger network is 'frustrating.' (nytimes.com) Transport Personal injury lawyers could kill autonomous trucks before they really get going. (bloomberg.com) How hybrid airplanes work. (wsj.com) Energy Bitcoin miners in Texas can make more money from not mining.
Calculated Risk
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Wards Auto released their estimate of light vehicle sales for August: August U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Rise 4%, Ending Two Straight Declines (pay site). Growth was solid in August despite the period’s results equaling a 7-month-low SAAR. However, after rising 3.4% year-over-year in the first five months of 2024, demand over the three months since then has been nearly flat.
Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader
In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a
Alpha Architect
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Bond futures are often assumed to be more tax-efficient than bond ETFs. My analysis indicates that this assumption is frequently incorrect. Although investors might view the 60/40 tax treatment of futures as advantageous, a futures strategy faces several challenges compared to a bond ETF, including frequent taxable events, potential tax drag from cash collateral, and additional state taxation.
Wealth Management
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
F2 Strategy's Doug Fritz discusses how the role of the CRM has evolved.
Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Podcasts Brendan Frazier talks with Michael Finke about the three cornerstones of a happy and fulfilling retirement. (podcasts.apple.com) Michael Kitces talks with Mark Tibergin about the difference between simply growing in size versus truly gaining scale as an advisory firm. (kitces.com) Jason Pereira talks with Larry Shumbres, CEO, and founder of Archive Intel.
Calculated Risk
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The headline jobs number in the August employment report was below expectations, and June and July payrolls were revised down by 82,000 combined. The participation rate and the employment population ratio were unchanged, and the unemployment rate decreased to 4.2%. Construction employment increased 34 thousand and is now 665 thousand above the pre-pandemic level.
Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor
During an era of evolving consumer preferences, the banking sector is undergoing a profound shift. As customers continue to broaden their perspectives, banking professionals must support their customers' financial wellness by providing holistic financial advice that aligns with individual goals and circumstances. Without adapting, financial institutions will find that loyalty may crumble amid uncertainty.
Alpha Architect
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Joseph Liberman, Stanley Krasner, Nathan Sosner, and Pedro Freitas, authors of the September 2023 study “Beyond Direct Indexing: Dynamic Direct Long-Short Investing,” examined if the utilization of leverage and long-short strategies motivated by the literature on factor-based investing could improve on the tax benefits of direct indexing and tax-loss harvesting.
Wealth Management
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Here are the good, the bad, and the ugly details that advisors and next-generation inheritors need to be aware of before signing on the dotted line.
Abnormal Returns
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Listening Someone was just charged with fraud using AI to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands. (arstechnica.com) What it's like to be 'the other guy' on a celebrity podcast. (nytimes.com) Hedge funds Corey Hoffstein talks with Giuseppe Paleologo about portfolio construction at multi-manager hedge funds. (podcasts.apple.com) Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk with Joe Peta about how to measure manager skill.
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