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Market Commentary: Carson Investment Research Looks at the Year Ahead

Carson Wealth

mega-cap stocks in 2023, we saw increased market breadth and valuations likely continuing, potentially supporting small- and mid-cap stocks. although valuations should help international markets see reasonable gains as well. Balanced Portfolio Trends of the past may continue or could suddenly reverse.

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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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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

She has a fascinating career, starting a PLS working away up as an analyst and eventually, head of outcome-based strategies for Morningstar, eventually rising from that position and portfolio manager to Chief Investment Officer. RITHOLTZ: So how do you find your way from economist to analyst to asset manager? NORTON: Yeah.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Since the 2008–09 credit crisis, market sentiment on European stocks has shifted back and forth, from despair to confidence, depending largely on sentiment regarding the EU’s prospects as a viable political and economic entity. large-cap managers have been able to beat the market consistently. Take Europe, for instance.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Since the 2008–09 credit crisis, market sentiment on European stocks has shifted back and forth, from despair to confidence, depending largely on sentiment regarding the EU’s prospects as a viable political and economic entity. large-cap managers have been able to beat the market consistently. Take Europe, for instance.

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The Advisory | June 2015

Brown Advisory

The Fed has held the benchmark federal funds rate at zero—a record low—since December 2008 and further reduced borrowing costs through so-called quantitative easing, a bond-purchase program that more than quadrupled its balance sheet to $4.5 Concern about future economic growth undermines valuations. Unemployment fell to 5.4%

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Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II

Brown Advisory

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Possible Signs. Merger and acquisition dollar volume has reached precrisis peaks.