A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 20, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. The rental market slowdown in finally reflected in inflation numbers Source: Apartment List Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. Buffett won).

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The Big Picture

JUNE 24, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to busts.

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The Big Picture

JULY 20, 2023

At least, if you are a smart investor who does the right things: Set up a financial plan, manage your own behavior, engage in long-term thinking, and avoid reacting to the endless daily noise that markets + media generate. The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor.

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

JANUARY 8, 2024

Weekly Market Insights : New Years Blues Stocks retreated in the first trading week of 2024, struggling a bit after a celebratory end to last year as investors second-guessed Fed signals and fretted over lingering inflation concerns. The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. Part of where I am coming from on this is how terribly wrong the consensus has been on how to engage fixed income markets for such a long time. That just isn't the reality.

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Abnormal Returns

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Markets Lumber prices are back down to pre-pandemic levels. calculatedriskblog.com) A doubling of the mortgage rates radically changes housing math. theirrelevantinvestor.com) Risk parity funds have not avoided the market downturn. abnormalreturns.com) Adviser links: more than the numbers.

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Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The recent stock market activity has given us plenty of opportunities to experience extremes of emotion… but then again, you can pretty much choose any time period and make a similar statement. There’s no shame in admitting that factor – for a lot of us, math can be very tough. We Want Control… or Do We?

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The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It's important that investors learn about market history and have a basic understanding of math, but beyond that, less might actually be more. In Enough , Jack Bogle wrote: Numbers are not reality. In the 19 years from 1950 to 1968, the stock market took investors on a mostly serene walk down Wall Street.

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David Nelson

JUNE 20, 2023

By David Nelson, CFA The narrative for 2023 and a bull market that continues to get little respect is that without the support of its $trillion market cap members, most of the market is little more than roadkill. The pain and destruction from last year’s bear market rivals that of a Category 5 storm Who can blame them?

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The Big Picture

MARCH 31, 2023

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions.

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 1, 2023

COVID created an incredible disequilibrium in the housing market where house prices surged 40%+ and rents are only just playing catch-up. If we assume that the market is remotely efficient then these prices should converge. Now that’s a bear market in real estate. And that’s where the math on renting comes into play.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? With the 10 year at 4.2%

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My process here for the notional values was that the multiplier is 100 so a put struck at 4100 would hedge $410,000 worth of stock, so then I just multiplied the dollar amount by the number of puts. The Cambria Tail Risk Fund was down a little over 2% last week and the Alpha Architect Tail Risk ETF (CAOS) was up 4%.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. market volatility. Cheap stocks on the mend is a really interesting way to look at the market because essentially the market is saying, “Yeah, that stock is very, very cheap, but we think it’s probably too cheap.”

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2024

Do the math on your particulars like what your various sources of earned income will likely be, how much your RMDs will likely be and so on. With more normal scenarios, really crunch the numbers with your accountant. Some goal, your number, is fine to shoot for but whatever you end up with is your reality. They want you to know.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. And I was intrigued by the markets at the time, in the mid eighties, you had a lot of stuff going on in terms of the merger boom. You graduated from high school.

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Validea

JUNE 14, 2023

By Justin Carbonneau ( Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube ) — Imagine a world where a single company has a market capitalization of $10 trillion. For reference, Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies as today, has a market cap of $2.8 With a current market cap of $2.8 times its current value. trillion.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. You’ve been involved with capital markets for your entire career. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Matt Kory, Vice President, Retirement Programs As a retirement income vehicle, the 401(k) is second in popularity only to Social Security – and as CNBC reported in 2019 the number of 401(k) millionaires is at an all-time high. Just think of the numbers. People are living longer these days, and that number is only going up.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The term personal finance ratios might give you flashbacks to math class, learning various formulas, equations, and ratios. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers. Since finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways especially when making financial calculations!

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

By Nick Maggiulli The fact that high beta firms tend to have lower quality and higher financial leverage is perhaps one good reason why the outperformance in bull markets is more than erased during bear markets By David Varadi Real math is painfully precise. Investment finance math is sales math.

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Integrity Financial Planning

JANUARY 23, 2023

You might have a generic 60/40 portfolio that you expected to cover the rest of your income needs but that possibly needs updating after recent market activity. 3] So, it’s easy math: the less you work, the less you’ll earn. Regardless, Social Security can provide a helping hand with your income.

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Discipline Funds

APRIL 19, 2023

Now, I have my own nuanced issues with a 60/40, specifically: I don’t think it always makes sense to rebalance back to a fixed 60% equity weight when we know that that deviates from global market caps significantly and can, at times, add a lot of risk to a portfolio because the 60% slice is so much riskier than the 40% slice.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The term personal finance ratios might be giving you flashbacks to math class. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers to each other. Since personal finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways! Money in a checking, savings, or also money market account is highly liquid.

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

These numbers, which felt crazy at the time, seem quaint compared to today. But on balance, this list, which had 84 members and $310 billion in market cap, is worth trillions of dollars today*. This number comes from Crunchbase , who just published a report showing that the number of newly minted decacorns hit a record high in 2021.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

Why don’t we just have a conversation in the studio about his beef with passive, why he thinks it’s a structural threat to the market? Now, I don’t believe the market structure is subject to the same risks as a single inverse trading instrument, but he makes a really compelling case for this is important.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

Your assets include everything from the cash in your bank accounts to the value of your stock portfolios and the market value of anything tangible that you own such as a house or a car. If you own a lot of stocks, keep in mind that your exact net worth could vary depending on the stock market. Here are some major contributors.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 14, 2022

If you're in the market for a car , setting up a sinking fund a few months in advance will help to offset costs significantly. Intentional and meaningful spending on holiday gifts goes a long way over giving in to enticing holiday marketing from retailers, and your sinking fund can help you achieve that. What number of sinking funds?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

That is difficult to pull off but if you do the math on that it shows long term outperformance. Having that much in asset classes that are intended to not look like equities should mean that the long term result won't look anything like the stock market. 75/50 seeks to capture 75% of the upside with only 50% of the downside.

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Your Richest Life

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Here’s a look at some of the current factors that are impacting prices and availability: Big Purchase to Wait on: The Housing Market The housing market has been hit with a triple whammy that is making home shopping particularly difficult right now. That number fell to 1.6 The post In the Market for a Big Purchase?

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

In the three months or so since we last spoke, the world has become an entirely different place – at least for those of us who keep up with any sort of international, financial or stock market news. The bottom line is that the overall US stock market is down about 20% over the past three months. Data source: S&P market data.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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