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MiB: Gretchen Morgenson on Private Equity

The Big Picture

A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. economy, but American society as a whole. This week, we speak with Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

If anything, it feels like the Fed wants to fight us, all of us, including the stock market and the economy. The Fed is actively trying to crash the stock market, break the housing market and push the economy into a recession. That’s not the case anymore. How do I know this? Wealth of Common Sense ). • Investors Keep Piling In Anyway.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

A downturn in the market doesn’t always precede a downturn in the economy. Strategies, asset classes and securities go in and out of style in part because the pendulum always swings back and forth between fear and greed but also because the future is unknowable. ( At its low, the S&P 500 was 25% below its high. Green ). •

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Anand Rathi Wealth Limited – Is It Riding the Wave of Growth?

Trade Brains

The Q3FY24 results displayed a positive outlook for the company with a 34% YoY increase in Total Revenue and 43% YoY in their assets under management (AUM). As of 2023, the industry boasts a staggering AUM (assets under management) of over Rs 39.4 of the Assets Under Management (AUM) originate from clients above Rs 50 Crores.

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New Year, New Clean Slate

Investing Caffeine

The stock market receives most of the media glory and reporting, however the bond market is the Rodney Dangerfield of asset classes, it “gets no respect.” More specifically, in a typical bear market, the economy generally slows down causing demand to decelerate, and interest rates to decline, which causes the values of bonds to increase.

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Market Outlook: 3 Reasons Long-Term Investors Should Be Optimistic

Darrow Wealth Management

For much of last year, even good news about the economy was bad news for markets. Morgan Asset Management analysis using data from Bloomberg. It seems like bad news is inescapable these days. Yes, 2022 was a terrible year for financial markets. stocks (S&P 500) on record. Source: J.P. The average loss in a down year was -13.2%

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What’s Happening to the Banking System?

Discipline Funds

In this piece I will explain why this isn’t 2008 all over again, but that the current environment is still very challenging for banks (and the broader economy) and likely to remain this way for the foreseeable future. The cause of this mini crisis is the re-pricing of everything in the economy following the COVID boom and bust.

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