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Don’t Ask An Economist Where the GDP Is Headed

Validea

And a deep dive into the predictions in December 2007 found not one respondent accurately predicted the downturn that was to follow, with their forecasts ranging from 0.7% While the pandemic obviously caused a massive impact, the following year was just as wrong, when economists were off by 1.9 percentage points.

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Minimizing The Damage Of Large, Unexpected Withdrawals

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There is a secondary, more subtle point that relates to portfolio construction and portfolio theory as we discuss here and as I have implemented into client accounts. Back in 2006 and 2007 there were far fewer funds available to help offset large stock market declines.

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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. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. Jeremy’s never really been a portfolio manager.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

Taylor is also an excellent communicator and regularly shares his thoughts with our balanced portfolio managers serving private clients, endowments and foundations. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity. In a word, the internet has changed everything.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

Taylor is also an excellent communicator and regularly shares his thoughts with our balanced portfolio managers serving private clients, endowments and foundations. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity. In a word, the internet has changed everything.

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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 Mark Kodenski, Private Client Portfolio Manager. Anchoring Expectations.

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How to prepare your portfolio for the uncertain future?

Truemind Capital

She had a plan to reduce equity exposure to 40% of the portfolio when the Sensex TTM PE reaches 26x and increase it back to 100% when the Sensex TTM PE reaches 13x.