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Things Change

The Better Letter

GE jumped over Exxon to the top spot as the oil company (which had bought Mobil in 1998 in what was then the biggest merger ever) stayed at number two. Chevron, which had been known as Standard Oil of California, returned to the top ten at number eight. There are about four times that number now. IBM, at nine, made it back, too.

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Transcript: Ron Shaich, Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread & CAVA

The Big Picture

So, so those numbers are astonishing. And there was a number that were actually in that business. You know, and, and, and so we expanded into a number of different other businesses. None of that existed in 2011. I mean, it was the number one diet in America, right? Welcome to Bloomberg. It called for loyalty.

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Just Put It All Into.

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

He didn't specify which of the two (I believe that is the correct number) funds that Hussman managed back then. For 20 years, holy cow, the numbers look great. The ten year numbers tell a much different story due, I think, to the fund's large allocation to gold. Gold was mostly in a downtrend from mid-2011 to early 2016.

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It’s Ugly Out There

The Irrelevant Investor

Historical numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, but I do think it can help set baseline expectations. So, I had Nick Maggiulli run the numbers for me, and since 1950, the S&P 500 has declined 10% from its highs 25 times*. Or tech valuations. Few people are worried about a correction. Or the Fed. Or the economy.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

Really, what I would think is getting to my natural home and that happened in 2011. ! ILMANEN: It’s always good to think of starting yields and valuation sort of two sides of the same coin. So, you wrote the prior book a decade ago, 2011 the “Expected Returns.” So, you’ve been there for more than a decade.

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One of The Great Bubbles of Financial History

The Irrelevant Investor

2010 - Have Cash, Wait for Stocks to Fall 2011 - Grantham sees most global equities as ranging from “unattractive” to “very unattractive” – valuing the S&P 500 at “no more than 950.” Investor enthusiasm, coupled with high valuations, has preceded all major market bubbles. It's been over four years since he wrote this.

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Small Caps: The Big Picture

Brown Advisory

As a result of this success, approximately half of companies in the Russell 2000 ® Growth Index (R2G) by weight, and more than half by number of stocks mades zero earnings (Exhibit 2). Exhibit 2: Nonearners as percentage weight and percentage of number of stocks in R2G Source: FactSet Research Systems; Russell Investment Group; Jefferies.