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MiB: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

Previously, she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein, CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. He was recently appointed to the Harvard Management Company Board.

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Record 401(k) Participation at Vanguard Plans

The Big Picture

Some of the more fascinating data points from the report: – 2022 featured record-high plan participation rate of 83%, driven in large part by wider adoption of automatic enrollment; – From 2006 to 2022, automatic enrollment has tripled; – 41% of all plans offered planning & advice; Larger plans with more than 5,000 employees, (..)

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Rude Awakening

Brown Advisory

million in 2006, inhibiting demand and economic growth, according to the Krueger report. Meanwhile, tax revenues have declined to about 12% of GNP from more than 15% before 2006, the Krueger report said. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. Moreover, emigration has reduced the population to about 3.5

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Microsoft’s 401(k) Retirement Plan Details

Cordant Wealth Partners

Decide upon your asset allocation The first step in investing your 401(k) is determining your “asset allocation,” which is simply the mix of stocks, bonds and cash you’ll hold. This mix of assets is the main building block of your portfolio and will primarily determine the risk and return in the account.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

VASSALOU: I joined in the summer of 2006. Actually, I developed my strategies and built the quantitative strategies group from the summer of 2006 onwards, and I started running my strategies with money in March of ’07, so soon before the quant meltdown — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Were you there for the financial crisis?

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

James Hendries

And on the asset allocation side, the team’s preference for value stocks throughout the year turned out to be a win. Moreover, if you look at the rate hiking campaign that began in 2004, the Fed didn’t actually get to its terminal rate until 2006—a full two years after it started.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

In studying the characteristics of socially responsible indices, some researchers have found high correlations with conventional indices (Statman, 2006). Michael Porter has published an extension of his seminal work on competitive advantages by looking at social influences of company competitiveness (Porter, 2006). Podkaminer, E.