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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

The Big Picture

My advice was not based on fear of a bubble or the (over)valuation of Yahoo; rather, I suggested employing a regret minimization framework.2 He could take any job he wanted for the rest of his lifeor none at all. Torn about what to do, he asked my opinion. All of these strategies have been money-losers this century.

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Things Change

The Better Letter

GE jumped over Exxon to the top spot as the oil company (which had bought Mobil in 1998 in what was then the biggest merger ever) stayed at number two. Chevron, which had been known as Standard Oil of California, returned to the top ten at number eight. There are about four times that number now. IBM, at nine, made it back, too.

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Thinking Big and Survivorship Bias

The Irrelevant Investor

After five years as a private business, they went public in 2004 at a valuation of $27B. In Google's 2004 Founders’ IPO Letter , Larry Page wrote: We will not shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects because of short term earnings pressure. Some of our past bets have gone extraordinarily well, and others have not.

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Market, Stocks, and Bonds Lessons Learned from 2022 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 9, 2023

James Hendries

When LPL Research released the Outlook 2022: Passing the Baton in December 2021, the team’s view was that the hit from inflation would be manageable and would therefore limit the number and magnitude of interest rate increases, enable the U.S. economy to avoid recession, and support above-average valuations.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. Probably somewhere around 2004 or ‘05, we started doing things by ourselves. Valuations go up and you saw it, of course, in the late ‘90s, in the tech sector. BARATTA: Yes.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks since the middle of 2004. But it is a meaningful change worthy of discussion after a long period of time.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks since the middle of 2004. But it is a meaningful change worthy of discussion after a long period of time.