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Market Extra: Government bonds held at banks may be so-called ‘toxic asset’ of next financial crisis, fund manager says

MarketWatch

banks, one in which government bonds would be the “toxic asset” at the center of it all.That’s one of two scenarios being entertained by European global investment manager Eric Sturdza Investments, which managed $1.3 The fund manager couldn’t immediately be reached for further comment.“It All three major U.S.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. So, so you’ve held analyst roles and a number of asset managers.

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SPX 11,000?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Or you could look at the 2007 high which was within a few points of the 2000 high and say it took 12 years to double. Since we cannot know the path, this really spotlights a couple of important portfolio management concepts. From the high in 1968, it took 18 years to double which is a very long time of course.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years. 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.

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Transcript: Michael Carmen, Wellington

The Big Picture

And so we’ve grown from a very small company with 29 partners back in 1979 to, as you noted, over a trillion dollars of assets and it become very diversified. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets. Where, 00:06:25 [Speaker Changed] Where were you managing those for in 96? That are all gone.

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

History offers many examples of investors beguiled and then burned by high-yield bonds sold by overleveraged companies, from telecommunications firms in 2000 to homebuilders in 2007 to coal mining companies in 2014. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. By Mark Kodenski, Private Client Portfolio Manager.

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How to prepare your portfolio for the uncertain future?

Truemind Capital

The chart below illustrates that the smart money enters when valuations are low and the majority of the investors aren’t looking at that asset class or security. The important takeaway is that there should be an allocation plan prepared for asset class volatility and it shouldn’t be just an ad-hoc emotional buying or selling.