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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

Mr. Money Mustache

Instead of investing in a productive asset, these speculators were just assuming the recent momentum would continue. It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). 2) My net worth has just cratered by 20%.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

Long duration assets are losing favour given higher rates act like gravity on the price of securities whose intrinsic value is based on cash flows generated further into the future. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. GAAP in 2002 7. Depreciation rises over time too.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. I think, you know, it’s not until probably Farallon came into existence, that it became a real asset class in itself, that stressed and distressed was a category that was thought as investable.

Assets 274
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Transcript: Rick Rieder

The Big Picture

And this is just a masterclass in how to manage assets, think about your career, understand the relationship between markets, between fixed income, the Fed, the dollar, sentiment, consumer spending, just everything is related and understanding what matters when is the key to your success. He helps to oversee $2.5 RIEDER: Yeah.

Economy 141
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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. Like it or not, the unimaginable outcomes are the ones that make the biggest spread between expected asset returns and the actual result.”

Economy 95
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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

The Big Picture

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And the assets under management were smaller. And the fact that you’re trying to bundle it up into a terminal value in, unless the assets are cash or convert to cash. 00:49:30 [Speaker Changed] I bought it around 2000 and it crashed around 2002. Magellan had more than that.