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MiB: Armen Panossian, Oaktree Capital Management

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Armen Panossian , managing director and head of performing credit at Oaktree Capital Management , which has $179 billion in assets under management. He previously worked for Pequot Capital Management, where he worked on distressed debt strategy.

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#FA Success Ep 345: Differentiating With Institutions And Ultra-High-Net-Worth Investors As A Serious Investment Firm, With Lori Van Dusen

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Lori built her in-depth investment knowledge while working with large institutions and endowments at wirehouse firms like Shearson Lehman Brothers and Citigroup Smith Barney, how Lori approaches portfolio management with an approach of "don't fix what isn't broken" and assumes most large portfolios she manages (..)

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#FA Success Ep 328: Turning Senior Housing Guidance From A Non-Discretionary Value-Add To A Pay-For-Value Service, With Thomas West

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, in the early stages of his career selling long-term care insurance, Thomas realized that so-called 'one-legger' senior couples – where one spouse is healthy but the other is not, such that if something happened to the healthy spouse, they’d both be in trouble – face unique challenges as (..)

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Does Return Stacking With Managed Futures Work?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Let's have a little fun with a difference of opinion about how to incorporate managed futures into a portfolio between to big proponents, Corey Hoffstein from ReturnStacked ETFs and Andrew Beer who runs the iMPG DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (DBMF). Both of them talk about how to add managed futures to a portfolio.

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Why You Should Buy Junk Bonds Now

Validea

Junk bonds—high-yield debt from riskier companies that are rated below BB by Standard & Poor’s—could provide a solid source of dividend yield and capital appreciation, and investors should consider holding them in their portfolios, contends an article in MarketWatch. But they shot back up 55% in 2009.

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At the Money: How To Know When The Fed Will Cut

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Jim Bianco, Chief Strategist at Bianco Research, and His firm has been providing objective and unconventional research and commentary to portfolio managers since 1990, and it is top rated amongst institutional traders.

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Bill Miller Retires From Fund Management

Validea

Veteran portfolio manager Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners and manager of the firm’s Miller Opportunity Trust and the Miller Income funds, retired at the end of 2022, reports an article in CityWire. McLemore has co-managed the fund, which holds $1.1