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Optimism vs. Pessimism: Defining Your Investing Future

Validea

Felix outlines a number of ways to combat the cost of pessimism, including checking your investments less frequently and finding ways to automate your investing contributions, among others. Over the last 25 years, we have seen four bear markets (1999-2002, 2008-2009, 2020, 2022) and numerous market corrections (10% losses).

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Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II

Brown Advisory

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Unsurprisingly, as volume has increased, so have valuations.

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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

Mr. Money Mustache

True to form, she got back to me within just a few minutes with these thoughts: MMM: How should potential retirees think of the recent crash in valuation – has it really pushed out their retirement date, or not? It’d be like retiring at the bottom of 2009 with still-decent numbers.

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Tariffs: Bark or Bite?

Brown Advisory

Or are the steel tariffs of 2002 a better indicator of what we should expect—an orderly, low-impact process resolved by the WTO in fairly short order? At a company-specific level, a number of firms have already sold off on fears of tariff impact. The media is focusing a lot of attention on tariffs proposed by the U.S.,

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Tariffs: Bark or Bite?

Brown Advisory

Or are the steel tariffs of 2002 a better indicator of what we should expect—an orderly, low-impact process resolved by the WTO in fairly short order? At a company-specific level, a number of firms have already sold off on fears of tariff impact. The media is focusing a lot of attention on tariffs proposed by the U.S.,

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Not Your Grandpa’s Railroad

Fortune Financial

Since 2002, overall carloads on Union Pacific’s network have declined by a bit less than 1% per year, but Union Pacific’s revenues per car have increased 4% per year. railroads have vastly outperformed the broader stock market over the last five-, ten-, and twenty-year periods?

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. By this valuation method, the portfolio cashflow duration is in the 16 to 17-years range. We inherently prefer actual cash flow.