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MiB: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

Previously, she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein, CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. Her current reading is here ; A transcript of our conversation is available here Tuesday.

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Underperforming Your Own Assets

The Big Picture

I have addressed Tax Alpha before ( see this and this ); but Pomp indirectly raised a very different issue: Why do people underperform their own assets? That underperformance between asset class returns and investor returns is the behavior gap. The 10-year returns for equities (2012-2021) when the SPX generated 16.6%

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Citi’s Private Equity ‘Club’ Underwhelmed Billionaire Members

Wealth Management

More than a decade after its 2012 launch, Citis experiment has ended with disappointed billionaires, a bitter legal battle and a lesson on the pitfalls of marketing private assets.

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Wealth Inequality Starts at the Top

The Big Picture

It shows “Share of Total Assets Held by the Bottom 50% ( red line ) versus the Share of Total Assets Held by the Top 0.1% ( green line ). The top 0.01% of US households had at least $111 million in net worth in 2012, compared to $4 million for the 1 %. Consider the chart at top, created by Invictus via FRED.

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MiB: Joe Barratta, Blackstone’s Global Head of Private Equity

The Big Picture

 This week, we speak with Joseph Baratta , who since 2012, has served as Global Head of Private Equity at Blackstone – the world’s largest alternative asset manager, with $975 billion in assets under management.

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Asset Allocation Bi-Weekly: The Japan Problem

Advisor Perspectives

Just one day after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba likened Japan’s debt situation to that of Greece, the country faced its weakest demand for 20-year bonds since 2012.

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Passive vs. Active

The Big Picture

But that is not the same as becoming one of the most dominant asset managers in the world. Top 10 Investor Errors: Excess Fees (June 30, 2012). For sure, ETF and fund fees compound over time, and whether or not they are passive or actively managed doesn’t matter. See also : How Expense Ratios and Star Ratings Predict Success.

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