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Market Commentary: January Gains, Jobs Report Both Bullish for Markets

Carson Wealth

The economy created 353,000 jobs in January, surprising to the upside. Job gains continue to support income growth, which in turn supports consumer spending and the overall economy. For a broad view of our expectations for the economy, stocks, and bonds in 2024, download our 2024 Market Outlook.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. And then I was looking for something more applied. The second is excess returns.

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

The economy, the markets, and the world-at-large provide unlimited fodder for them. 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. ” Nobody does. And lots of surprises.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

It was a wild ride because by the time you got, well, so in 2005, we went on a road show trying to tell people what we had learned, and there wasn’t a lot of reception. And in the 2000 at the 2005 conference, it’s kind of wild. So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

And this was back in 2005 or 2006. Now, they do have to disclose in their statutory filings with the insurance regulators how much of their investment portfolio in the insurance company is related transactions or related stocks or bonds or mortgages or whatever. MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. And I said, Paul, I don’t know anything about managing a public portfolio, but the deal we made with each other. We, we made in 2005, I believe. We back it.

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