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MiB: Richard Bernstein, CEO/CIO at RBA

The Big Picture

billion in assets. Bernstein explains the four drivers of their models: Profits, Liquidity, Sentiment, and Valuation. We discuss the challenges of launching a Quantitative Macro focused firm right into the teeth of the Great Financial Crisis in 2009. We also reminisce about the good old days at Mother Merrill.

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Reasons to Include International Investments in Your Portfolio

Darrow Wealth Management

assets the cold shoulder. Between 2000 – 2009, the cumulative total return for the S&P 500 was negative 9.1% equities to an asset allocation. From 2000 to the end of 2009, the global allocation would have outperformed by nearly 8.8% Other reasons to consider international assets in your portfolio. Valuations.

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Four Hard Investing Lessons From 2022 With Silver Linings

Validea

Even with bear markets like 2000-2002 and 2008-2009, the portfolio had strong returns for a very long period. But investors may still want to consider layering in various other asset classes to help protect from this unexpected risk in the future. With future stock returns higher than they were at the start of the year and the U.S

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Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds

Brown Advisory

Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds. With interest rates at record lows and many publicly traded bonds and stocks approaching historically high valuations, private credit has become increasingly attractive to investors because of its total return prospects, steady income and role in diversification.

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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. I could maybe flip that around a little bit since I think particularly post 2008, 2009, the quality style of investing has become a lot more popular.

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How Inflation Altered the Stock – Bond Relationship

Fortune Financial

The yield on the ten year Treasury note briefly passed 5% recently, the highest yield on the ten year note since before the financial crisis of 2007 – 2009. Stocks are a risky asset class, subject to periodic bouts of panic selling due to anything from recession-induced earnings fears or geopolitical uncertainty.

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Weekend Reading Magazine Covers and Market Caps

Discipline Funds

I recall one particularly glaring moment during 2009 when AIG became mostly owned by the US government and failed to meet S&P liquidity requirements, but they just ignored it. It forced me to think in a multi-temporal sense which has completely changed how I think about asset allocation.