The Big Picture

AUGUST 17, 2022

Yesterday I spent some time with Eric Balchunas recording a Masters in Business podcast. Balchunas is Senior ETF Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence and the author of “ The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions.”. It’s a fun conversation I’m sure everybody will enjoy. There are parts of our discussion I thought were obvious, but he convinced me as underappreciated: First and foremost, the intense disruption of low-c

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The Reformed Broker

AUGUST 13, 2022

It’s good to be back! After a much needed vacation, got back into the swing of things this week… And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t wait. Check it out below or wherever fine podcasts are played. These were the most read posts on the site this week, in case you missed it: The post This Week on TRB appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 17, 2022

Podcasts Christine Benz and Jeff Ptak talk with Joe Saul-Sehy co-author of a new book "Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management." (citywireusa.com) Demetri Kofinas talks with Vitaliy Katsenelson author of "Soul in the Game." (hiddenforces.io) Investing On the emotional advantage of caring less about your investments. (humbledollar.com) Thinking about money management as water management.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 19, 2022

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the FPA is planning to leave the Financial Planning Coalition (which also includes the CFP Board and NAPFA) at the end of the year. This follows the FPA’s announcement that it plans to pursue title reform for the term “financial planner”, and signals that there may be coordination challenges or divergent strategies among the three organi

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

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2022

One of my favorite ways to contextualize market trends is to divide long periods of time into secular bull and bear markets. When we look at the past century, we can see decades-long eras where the economy is generally robust, supporting markets trending higher, with expanding multiples. We call these eras Secular Bull Markets. The best examples are 1946-66, 1982-2000, and 2013 forward.

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Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 19, 2022

Work Ezra Klein talks the new world of work with Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel authors of “Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home.” (nytimes.com) Russ Roberts talks with Tyler Cowen, co-author of "Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World." (econtalk.org) Brett McKay talks with Melody Warnick author of "If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-From-Anywhere World.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 16, 2022

Welcome back to the 294th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Neel Shah. Neel is the Founder of Shah Total Planning, which itself is a combination of Beacon Wealth Solutions (an independent RIA) and Shah & Associates (a law firm) in Monroe Township, New Jersey, and oversees $57 million in assets under management for 50 client households.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 14, 2022

During the 2022 Abel lectures Jim Simons had a conversation with Nils A. Baas and Nicolai Tangen. The lectures were held at The University of Oslo, May 25th…. A conversation with Jim Simons: Mathematics, Common Sense and Good Luck. Source: The Abel Prize , June 13, 2022. The post A conversation with Jim Simons appeared first on The Big Picture.

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Calculated Risk

AUGUST 18, 2022

From CoStar: STR: Seasonal Demand Shifts Bring Down US Weekly Hotel Performance Showing continued alignment with seasonal patterns, U.S. hotel performance fell slightly from the previous week, but showed improved comparisons with 2019, according to STR‘s latest data through Aug. 13. Aug. 7-13, 2022 (percentage change from comparable week in 2019*): • Occupancy: 68.5% (-4.6%) • Average daily rate (ADR): $152.34 (+15.8%) • Revenue per available room (RevPAR): $104.30 (+10.5%) *Due to the pandemic

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

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Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 14, 2022

Also on the site Don't let inertia keep you from learning something new (and useful). (abnormalreturns.com) My Q&A with Eric Barker author of “Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong.” (abnormalreturns.com) Calibrating your work-life balance. (abnormalreturns.com) Top clicks this week Five lessons from getting older including 'Change gets old.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 16, 2022

Welcome back to the 294th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Neel Shah. Neel is the Founder of Shah Total Planning, which itself is a combination of Beacon Wealth Solutions (an independent RIA) and Shah & Associates (a law firm) in Monroe Township, New Jersey, and oversees $57 million in assets under management for 50 client households.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 19, 2022

There is a link in yesterday’s reads that I violently disagreed with but found quite interesting nonetheless. Just as retweets aren’t endorsements, my AM reads include things I find fascinating, important, and well-written — regardless of whether or not they reflect my beliefs. If anything, finding contrary pieces helps reduce confirmation bias and curtails my time in a limited information bubble of my own construction.

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Calculated Risk

AUGUST 19, 2022

Notes: The expansion to the Panama Canal was completed in 2016 (As I noted a few years ago ), and some of the traffic that used the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is probably going through the canal. This might be impacting TEUs on the West Coast. Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic.

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Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 14, 2022

Markets Ben Carlson, "Sometimes all the market needs to see is that things aren’t as bad as investors originally feared." (awealthofcommonsense.com) Investing means you are going to experience regret. (humbledollar.com) Companies Peloton ($PTON) is still trying to right-size the business. (frontofficesports.com) Ford ($F) is struggling with quality issues.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 17, 2022

Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) are generally required to enter into an advisory agreement with their clients prior to being hired for advisory services. And while there is no standard ‘template’ language applicable to all advisory agreements, there are a number of best practices that RIAs can follow in drafting and reviewing their agreements to ensure they can pass legal and regulatory muster.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 13, 2022

This week, we speak with Kenneth Tropin, chairman and founder of Graham Capital Management , a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund with $18 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding GCM in 1994, Tropin was president and chief executive officer of hedge fund John W. Henry & Company, and has worked with such legendary traders as John Henry and Paul Tudor Jones.

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Calculated Risk

AUGUST 16, 2022

From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions Housing Starts: Privately?owned housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,446,000. This is 9.6 percent below the revised June estimate of 1,599,000 and is 8.1 percent below the July 2021 rate of 1,573,000. Single?family housing starts in July were at a rate of 916,000; this is 10.1 percent below the revised June figure of 1,019,000.

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Pragmatic Capitalism

AUGUST 16, 2022

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 15, 2022

Working as a financial advisor can be both financially rewarding and emotionally satisfying. By helping clients develop financial goals, creating a financial plan, and supporting the implementation and monitoring of the plan, advisors help clients live their best lives. But while new fee models have allowed fee-only advisors to reach an expanding range of potential clients, there are many Americans who could benefit from professional financial advice but might not have sufficient income or asset

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 19, 2022

Yet another lovely open-air driver to enjoy during the summer months: The famed Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing pioneered many new technical innovations, such as fuel injection and a tubular space frame. It may have been gorgeous, but it was an expensive coupe. Enter the 190SL. Built on a shortened sedan platform, it was powered by a carbureted 1.9-liter inline-four making 120 HP paired with a four-speed manual transmission.

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Calculated Risk

AUGUST 17, 2022

From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 2.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 12, 2022. The Refinance Index decreased 5 percent from the previous week and was 82 percent lower than the same week one year ago.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

AUGUST 16, 2022

As I’ve gotten older the part of pop culture where I’ve fallen behind the most is music. There aren’t many new artists I like so I mostly end up listening to older music. There could be a get-off-my-lawn nostalgia thing going on here but the data shows I’m not alone. Ted Gioia crunched the numbers and the results are astounding: Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 17, 2022

Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) are generally required to enter into an advisory agreement with their clients prior to being hired for advisory services. And while there is no standard ‘template’ language applicable to all advisory agreements, there are a number of best practices that RIAs can follow in drafting and reviewing their agreements to ensure they can pass legal and regulatory muster.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 19, 2022

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Holes in the Recession Story. With surging inflation and a new war in Europe, the first half of 2022 was understandably gloomy for economies and financial markets around the world. But recent developments offer some hope that the prevailing pessimism may no longer be as warranted as it was a few months ago. ( Project Syndicate ). • This Year, the Boss Is in the Office While Employees Hit the Beach : Managers hoping to coax workers back to the office are

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Calculated Risk

AUGUST 15, 2022

Inventory is still increasing, but the inventory build has slowed somewhat over the last several weeks. Still, inventory is increasing faster than in 2019 at this time of year (both in percentage terms and in total inventory added). Here are the same week inventory changes for the last four years: 2022: +6.3K 2021: +10.4K 2020: -10.9K 2019: -0.1K Inventory bottomed seasonally at the beginning of March 2022 and is now up 128% since then.

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Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor

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Wealth Management

AUGUST 17, 2022

The only trend that appears to be undisputable in the return to office story is that there’s no one overarching trend.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 15, 2022

Working as a financial advisor can be both financially rewarding and emotionally satisfying. By helping clients develop financial goals, creating a financial plan, and supporting the implementation and monitoring of the plan, advisors help clients live their best lives. But while new fee models have allowed fee-only advisors to reach an expanding range of potential clients, there are many Americans who could benefit from professional financial advice but might not have sufficient income or asset

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2022

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • When is a Bear Market Over? Like many things in the market, there aren’t any hard and fast rules for this kind of thing, especially in real-time. Let’s look at the 2008 scenario as an example. The S&P 500 topped out in early October 2007 and bottomed in March 2009. On a price-only basis, the index didn’t reach those 2007 highs again until March 2013: ( Wealth of Common Sense ). • How Remote Work is Shifting Population Growth Across the U.S.

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