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Wealth Inequality Starts at the Top

The Big Picture

Source: FRED Wealth disparities get ever more lopsided the higher up the economic strata you climb; there is more disparity with the top 1% than the top 10%, but the biggest spreads are at the top 0.1% (and above). Consider the chart at top, created by Invictus via FRED. And, it has accelerated over the past few decades.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jul’23

Truemind Capital

All the sectors went up with major sectoral growth seen in auto (up 22%), realty (up 33%), and consumer durables (up 13%) on the back of an improving economic outlook. We continue to stay under-allocated to equity (check the 3rd page for asset allocation) at the current valuation levels.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles In hindsight, we can see that the value in 2014 $AAPL was real while the value in 2014 $IBM was fake. By Barry Ritholtz People’s actions don’t always live up to rational economic theories because of unintended consequences By Ben Carlson Every past decline looks like an opportunity, every future decline looks like a risk.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2024

Dear Mr. Market

We break down and assign each of the four “regions” with an asset class and then pick teams (stocks) that we think have the best chance at doing well relative to others. We still like Energy this year and that is especially so with it being one of the most beaten down economic sectors from 2023.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

The expected competitive forces don’t materialise, and we believe that superior economics can be maintained for a lot longer than our standard microeconomics mean-reversion frameworks would suggest. In the period 2010 to 2014 there was a boom in energy capex particularly into U.S. The key to this is analysis of the supply-side.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks achen Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47 Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. 30, 2010, this underweighting was the largest positive contributor to the model’s relative performance out of all of our asset allocation decisions.