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Hold Cash or Invest? History Shows Cash Isn’t King for Long

Darrow Wealth Management

The federal funds rate hasn’t been this high since 2007 when it peaked at 5.25%. So when the federal funds rate goes up, it can have an outsized impact on shorter term interest rates on assets like Treasury bills (T-bills). This has been the faster pace of rate hikes since the 1980-1981 cycle.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

So it’s, 00:09:11 [Speaker Changed] You’ve become an enterprise, it’s 10 x what it once was in terms of headcount, it’s much bigger in terms of assets. Then what enables that you have to have some asset ability capability that competitors can’t equally duplicate. I do keep a strong balance sheet.

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No Pain, No Gain

Investing Caffeine

For long-term stock investors who have reaped the massive +520% rewards from the March 2009 lows, they understand this gargantuan climb was not earned without some rocky times along the way.

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Investment Perspectives | Confidence

Brown Advisory

On the other hand, based on the normal relationship of earnings multiples to interest rates, stocks are meaningfully undervalued relative to bonds and appear to be one of the few asset classes offering the prospect of inflation-beating returns. This term refers to the possibility that the U.S. Low interest rates. Source: Bloomberg.

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Investment Perspectives | Confidence

Brown Advisory

On the other hand, based on the normal relationship of earnings multiples to interest rates, stocks are meaningfully undervalued relative to bonds and appear to be one of the few asset classes offering the prospect of inflation-beating returns. This term refers to the possibility that the U.S. THE “JAPANIFICATION” QUESTION. Source: Bloomberg.

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

Through conservative, bottom-up analysis, we are taking advantage of current market dynamics to buy attractively priced debt in companies with solid revenues and limited vulnerability to an economic downturn. Debt in well-managed companies positioned to weather an economic slump return nearly three times the 2.3%

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

The Big Picture

One is we were securitizing the assets in the auto loan and selling them off to other asset managers because we weren’t able to buy them ourselves. The requirements for asset managers to have a bank were such that it would inhibit us a bit. JOHNSON: …for most assets. I also ran our credit card business at the time.