Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

could fall victim to long-term economic stagnation, similar to the fate that befell Japan starting in the 1990s. Japan’s GDP had grown by an average of more than 5% per year from 1950 to 1989—a true post-War economic miracle. As important, however, is the contrast in how the two countries have dealt with financial or economic crises.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

could fall victim to long-term economic stagnation, similar to the fate that befell Japan starting in the 1990s. Investors who were active in the late 1980s will recall that asset prices in Japan reached extreme levels as money poured into the country from all over the world, propelled by extraordinary economic growth.

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Investing Caffeine

APRIL 1, 2022

The hangover from COVID has created significant supply chain disruptions and widespread economic shortages. Source: Trading Economics. The rising Baker Hughes drilling rig count below reflects the miracle of supply-demand economics operating in full force. Source: Trading Economics. Source: GasBuddy.com.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 3, 2015

Ahead of the first tightening by the Federal Reserve in nine years, we are shifting into less-traditional assets, anticipating that, at best, U.S. stocks and fixed income securities will probably languish when the central bank begins to withdraw record stimulus. Concern about future economic growth undermines valuations.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. It was 16 hour days and it was six or seven days a week, but you really got to learn the financial markets there. The banks would have an equity trading desk and they’d have a debt desk, right?

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED). Furthermore, if you give the Fed the benefit of the doubt of achieving this uncertain target, this 2.5% level is very appealing and still extremely low, historically speaking ( see chart below ). Many investors are very myopic in their focus on U.S. interest rates.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JULY 19, 2016

Smith taught me how much the market, and even more so the investor, are influenced by psychology. Here he is, from his 1967 classic: A stock is for all practical purposes, a piece of paper that sits in a bank vault. Ferri was an early champion of indexing and asset allocation for financial advisors.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

I don’t know how relevant that is to asset management, but let’s talk a little bit about you were doing before you were being lauded by the French president. You went to school in Paris, but you began your career in London at Merrill and Deutsche Bank. I joined, effectively, Deutsche Bank. I think we learned a lot.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. I mean, he was essentially market timer, for a lack of a a better word. He wasn’t tactical asset allocator. 00:11:43 [Speaker Changed] And one of the more rare successful market times 00:11:47 [Speaker Changed] Unbelievably successful.

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Investing Caffeine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

However, the economic impact should not be overstated either. In other words, the hundreds of billions of dollars in financial stock market losses this month are not proportional to the Mideast economic losses incurred thus far. And let’s not forget, economic activity is not dropping to zero.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neil Dutta has been doing economic analysis and research from a market-based perspective for over 20 years. I found this to be just an absolutely fascinating discussion about how to best contextualize the world of economic data around you, in a way that’s useful for you as an investor. But it was kind of late. DUTTA: Yes.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Inflation dropping ( see chart below ), the Federal Reserve signaling a decline in interest rates, low unemployment ( 3.7% ), and healthy economic growth ( +3.3% Q4 – GDP ) have all contributed to the continuing bull market run. When it comes to the financial markets, money continues to go where it is treated best.

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