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Underperforming Your Own Assets

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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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Wealth Inequality Starts at the Top

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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

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 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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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. It depends on your asset allocation. And they took it out of their asset allocation in favor of other strategies.

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Mind the Gap

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Whatever phrase you select, the persistent gap between investors’ performance and the assets they hold is a substantial drag on returns. In this report, we dig into these nuances and explore how differences in the timing of cash flows, sequence of returns, and asset size can impact this gap.

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A Short History of Stocks

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They slowly accumulated some assets, but hardly moved the needle on Wall Street. It is not a coincidence that following the GFC, Vanguard and Blackrock soon crossed a trillion dollars in assets, then doubled in size, then doubled again. And even still, fund fees and taxes remained a major cost element.

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The Fed is Breaking Things (and it could get worse)

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Price stability and full employment seems to have taken a back seat to asset prices, discouraging speculation, and increasing Fed Chair “credibility.” Where the 2000s-era Fed ignored obvious recklessness among banks and leveraged asset managers, the current Fed seems to be overly concerned with asset prices and appearances.

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