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Bad News is Good News?

Investing Caffeine

Remember that global pandemic back in 2020 called COVID-19 that killed over 350,000 people in the U.S.? What did the stock market actually do in 2020? Short-term news cycle headlines shouldn’t drive portfolio decision-making, but rather your personal objectives, goals, and risk tolerance. GDP was advancing at a reasonable +1.9%

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Equity markets at a crossroads – What is the way forward?

Truemind Capital

In this piece, we are trying to understand what the future holds and how we can prepare our investment portfolio to deal with future outcomes. The liquidity support since 2008 and massive stimulus post March 2020 has inflated all the asset prices be it equity, debt, or real estate. But first a quick recap. trillion to ~$8-8.5

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Myth-Busting with Momentum: How to Pursue the Premium

ClearMoney

As with many things in life, the truth is somewhere between the extremes: While both simulated and real-world data suggest momentum may not be suitable as a driver of long-term asset allocations, we believe momentum considerations can be integrated in a cost-effective way to help inform daily portfolio management decisions.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2024

Dear Mr. Market

My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. 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.

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The time has finally come

Truemind Capital

In good times i.e. when the market valuations are usually very high, everyone agrees to the logic of buying low and selling high. Not understanding the role & importance of tactical asset allocation (overweight debt in euphoric times and overweight equity in a time of acute pessimism) in creating superior returns over the long term.

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From Rocket Ship to Roller Coaster

Investing Caffeine

T he stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years 2019/2020/2021, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. With that said, I am always quick to point out that diversification in a portfolio is important (i.e., Source: Edward Yardeni.

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Managing Liquidity in the Coronavirus Market

Brown Advisory

Managing Liquidity in the Coronavirus Market ajackson Mon, 03/30/2020 - 16:04 This article was written by Sid Ahl, Taylor Graff, Adam King and J.R. Consider how we defined investment risk in our 2018 asset allocation publication, Confronting the Unknown: “The probability that a portfolio will not meet an investor’s needs.”