Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Even small-cap stocks, which have been weighed down by higher rates, saw huge gains, with the Russell 2000 Index rising 3.5%. At Carson Investment Research, we have moved our longer-term strategic asset allocations to their maximum equity overweight while continuing to favor U.S. Here’s why.

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Carson Wealth

JANUARY 2, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Grabs the Spotlight Jake Bleicher, Portfolio Manager To me, the narrative of 2023 is captured by a chart showing the performance of NVIDIA, the maker of high-end computer chips that have become the bedrock of artificial intelligence (AI). This is a massively underrated story of what’s happening in the U.S.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Market conditions may indeed be changing, and in ways that warrant a reassessment of portfolio positioning. Adding risk to portfolios at this stage in the economic cycle does not seem like a prudent strategy to us. A primary mechanism for managing risk is rebalancing, with particular focus on the role of bonds in the portfolio.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Market conditions may indeed be changing, and in ways that warrant a reassessment of portfolio positioning. Adding risk to portfolios at this stage in the economic cycle does not seem like a prudent strategy to us. A primary mechanism for managing risk is rebalancing, with particular focus on the role of bonds in the portfolio.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers. Manager Characteristics.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 17, 2024

The idea of building an All-Weather portfolio of course has its appeal. The basic idea is to be much less volatile than the broad market or the typical 60/40 portfolio. It raises the question though of how much performance should an investor expect or be willing give up for the potential emotional comfort of an All-Weather portfolio.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets. MANAGING LIQUIDITY RISK.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

History offers many examples of investors beguiled and then burned by high-yield bonds sold by overleveraged companies, from telecommunications firms in 2000 to homebuilders in 2007 to coal mining companies in 2014. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. By Mark Kodenski, Private Client Portfolio Manager.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

As head of asset allocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

As head of asset allocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

Several potentially worrisome signs are beginning to appear on the horizon, but they don’t appear particularly disturbing at this point, as we’ll see: The NASDAQ Composite recently crossed 5000 for the first time since March 2000. If stocks with no earnings were included, the P/E ratio in 2000 would have been much higher than shown.)

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Public-sector debt has expanded every year since 2000, hitting 100% of gross national product at the end of fiscal year 2014. The hazards of appropriation bonds underscore the value of a bottom-up approach to building a municipal bond portfolio. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. million from about 3.8

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James Hendries

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The LPL Research Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee is increasing its recommended interest rate exposure in its tactical allocation from underweight to neutral. Since 2000, the average increase in the 10-year yield during major moves higher is around 1.8%. Core vs Core Plus Bond Implementation.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

And I remember being on the phone thinking, as the PMs were asking questions about cash flows and things, I was thinking, you’re asking all the wrong questions about whether this portfolio will perform because it’s things like down payment. You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The budget gap for nonprofits has widened because of a slump in their three sources of funds—donations, grants and portfolio returns. Yet the hardest funding challenge for many nonprofits is achieving sufficient portfolio returns. Consider changes to portfolio construction. Charitable giving to foundations in 2015 shrank 3.8%

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 21, 2023

QQQY (personal holding that I am test driving) was down much less than the S&P 500 and the Invesco QQQ Trust, JEPY was down less than the S&P 500 and IWMY was down less than it's corresponding underlying iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM). They build out a few different types with various allocation percentages for each type.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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Cordant Wealth Partners

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Decide upon your asset allocation The first step in investing your 401(k) is determining your “asset allocation,” which is simply the mix of stocks, bonds and cash you’ll hold. This mix of assets is the main building block of your portfolio and will primarily determine the risk and return in the account.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

” Dent called for “ the collapse of our lifetime ” – an 86 percent loss for the S&P 500; 86 percent on the Russell 2000; 92 percent on the Nasdaq – by June 2023. Despite exceptional early returns, the fund is barely above water since its 2000 inception (+0.55 I replied, “Which one?”

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The Irrelevant Investor

JANUARY 7, 2018

By Dina Isola Asset allocation explains 93.6% of variation in portfolio returns. By Ben Carlson Although the S&P SmallCap 600 took an extra decade’s worth of research into account in its construction as a benchmark, the Russell 2000 is far more widely used. By Peter Lazaroff Amazon made $2.4

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We have seen strong, strong demand pretty consistently for building out alternatives, portfolios, particularly when it comes to opportunities with great financial sponsors on the private equity side, looking at these long-term secular trends, right? RITHOLTZ: Let’s talk a little bit about inflation. You mentioned 8.5 percent inflation rate.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 13, 2018

Our research contacts with a large number of companies in client portfolios tend to confirm that demand growth remains very much intact. This projection, however, assumes that participation, currently 63.0%, will continue its decline from its peak of 67.3%, reached in early 2000—a view that strikes many economists as overly conservative.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 13, 2018

Our research contacts with a large number of companies in client portfolios tend to confirm that demand growth remains very much intact. This projection, however, assumes that participation, currently 63.0%, will continue its decline from its peak of 67.3%, reached in early 2000—a view that strikes many economists as overly conservative.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Year to date, the S&P 500 is down more than 23%; the Russell 2000 small caps are off more than 26%; Emerging markets are down almost 28%; and the Nasdaq Tech index is off more than 31%. This includes a broad Asset Allocation including full Diversification of asset classes, geographies, etc. Asset Economy.

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Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 11, 2023

We’re proud to say that My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. Thus far the Russell 2000 Index has been pulling away a bit and outperforming the S&P 500 for not only 2023 but the better part of the last 12 months.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

And I was a portfolio manager, so I was doing bottom up research and picking stocks. He wasn’t tactical asset allocator. Hey, if you knew with perfect clarity, if that bird landed on your shoulder and told you here’s where equity prices are gonna be in 10 years, position your portfolio for that.

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The Irrelevant Investor

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Fisher, 1958 The Money Game - George Goodman, 1967 A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel, 1973 Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises - Charles Kindleberger, 1978 The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros, 1987 Market Wizards - Jack Schwager, 1989 Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis, 1989 101 Years on Wall Street, An Investor's Almanac (..)

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The Big Picture

MARCH 14, 2023

He launched his own firm right into the teeth of the collapse in ’09, which turned out to be quite a fortuitous time to launch an asset management shop. RITHOLTZ: That whole irrational exuberance era from ’96, from the speech to 2000, that could be the best four-year run in market history. BERNSTEIN: It was crazy. It was really crazy.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Outlook for 2017 | Balance in an Uncertain Time achen Fri, 02/03/2017 - 14:19 With that said, we present this discussion of our asset allocation approach and our current portfolio stance as we begin the year. Provide our asset allocation perspective as it stands at the beginning of 2017—also based on a longer-term view.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

With that said, we present this discussion of our asset allocation approach and our current portfolio stance as we begin the year. In writing this report, we set out to accomplish two goals: Provide a window into our asset allocation philosophy and process, which emphasize a long-term view. Fri, 02/03/2017 - 14:19.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And that’s, that’s the predecessor to Amherst, which we bought in 2000 and had been running it since then. So think about 2003 home prices had gone up a lot from 2000. So mortgage position in 2000 were way more valuable in 2003 than they were when they originated because they weigh less credit risk. Anything else?

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