Discipline Funds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Macroeconomic Overview Our macroeconomic forecast for 2023 called for a year of disinflation and “muddle through” That means we expected the economy to remain sluggish and for inflation to show positive rates of change that were sequentially slower. To learn more about our investment management service please contact us here.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2023

Mike digs into how Brown Advisory is viewing holdings like Bank of America in light of these developments as well as how some real-estate sensitive companies (e.g. Read more > 2023 Asset Allocation Perspectives and Outlook We are pleased to share Brown Advisory’s 2023 Outlook.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2023

Mike digs into how Brown Advisory is viewing holdings like Bank of America in light of these developments as well as how some real-estate sensitive companies (e.g. Read more > 2023 Asset Allocation Perspectives and Outlook We are pleased to share Brown Advisory’s 2023 Outlook.

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Truemind Capital

APRIL 21, 2023

Equity Market Insights: The last quarter has seen one of the major shakeups from the prevailing easy situation over the last decade for the global economies. Thankfully, the Governments intervened to avoid major spillover effects on the overall economy. The rising risk of Global financial uncertainties affected Indian markets as well.

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Truemind Capital

JANUARY 16, 2024

They like to talk about Bajaj Finance and not Yes Bank in their portfolio. Most of the time, even the winners account for very low weight in the overall assets, resulting in miniscule contribution to the portfolio returns. Global growth exceeded projections, primarily propelled by the resilient performance of the US economy.

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Truemind Capital

AUGUST 12, 2023

Despite being widely expected for many months, the recession has yet to materialize in the US and other developed economies. The interesting question is why the recession has yet not occurred even after one of the fastest increases in interest rates in history by all the major Central Banks in a very short span of time.

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Truemind Capital

JUNE 30, 2022

After the subprime crisis in 2008, many developed countries’ Central Banks started printing money and flooding the global economies with cheap liquidity. This resulted in inflation to the levels last seen 40 years ago in many developed economies. But first a quick recap. US Fed increased its balance sheet size from ~$4-4.5

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Discipline Funds

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What Are Central Bank Reserves? The Fed in Plain English (video) Perry Mehrling’s Excellent Monetary System Course (video series) Thinking of the Economy as a System of Flows The USA is Not Going Bankrupt The Role of the Entrepreneur in the Economy Why Time is the Ultimate Form of Wealth What Causes Recessions?

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Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

He once again emphasized that the risk of not doing enough to curb inflation was now balanced with the risk of holding rates too high for too long (and potentially breaking the economy in the process). Lower interest rates can have significant positive effects on the economy, including on mortgage rates. Here’s why.

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Investing Caffeine

JANUARY 2, 2024

With China’s stagnating economy, it has helped our inflationary cause by exporting deflationary goods to our country. Source: Visual Capitalist Why So Bullish? What has investors so jazzed up in recent months? For starters, inflation has been on a steady decline for many months. a few months ago to 3.9% today (see chart below).

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Discipline Funds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Not only do we know that shelter is making inflation look irrationally high, but we also know that the most important retailers in the US economy are saying exactly what the CPI ex-shelter says. And the only way that disaster happens is if your financial planner is making irrational projections about asset returns and your asset allocation.

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Investing Caffeine

MAY 3, 2023

Is Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank the beginning or the end of bank failures? How will elections affect the economy? Are you overly concentrated in one asset class, sector, or individual security? Risk Tolerance: What is your asset allocation? Are we going into a recession?

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Investing Caffeine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cash in consumer wallets and money in the bank help the economy keep chugging along at a healthy clip. The bull market took a pause for the month, but consumer wallets remain fat, the economy keeps chugging, the employment picture remains strong, and stock prices remain up +12% for the year (S&P 500).

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Truemind Capital

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Trade was important to the Roman economy and it generated vast wealth for the citizens of Rome. The economy was in shambles and trade was majorly localized and was done using barter methods. Significant debasement of money has happened and will continue to happen as per the promises made by the Central banks all around the world.

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WiserAdvisor

MARCH 19, 2024

Rich individuals do not simply hoard their money in bank accounts. Instead, they strategically allocate their funds to investments that have the potential to generate high returns over time. They are characterized by rapid economic growth and increasing integration with the global economy.

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James Hendries

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P500) is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries. Asset allocation does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss.

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Truemind Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Many believe that the possibility of losses is very minimal since the central banks are on their side. To quantify, the Central bank of the USA – Fed printed more than 20% of total US dollars ever printed in the last year. Why then central banks never did such a thing earlier which can make so many people wealthy.

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WiserAdvisor

AUGUST 18, 2022

Not only do you have to keep track of various factors such as market trends, price movements, the economy (both local and international), past returns, and more, but you also have to match those with your own time horizon and risk appetite. to figure out the effect of economy-level factors on your investments’ performance.

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Truemind Capital

MARCH 20, 2020

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. Value by clicking here. Buying the best of businesses at wrong prices could turn out to be a bad investment.

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Truemind Capital

APRIL 19, 2024

Here are some of the popular themes and the risks associated with them: Falling Interest Rates : There has been earnest demand by market participants to cut interest rates in the US and other developed economies on the back of falling inflation rates. One can consider debt portfolios with floating rate instruments for long-term allocation.

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Investing Caffeine

APRIL 1, 2022

The Fed’s goal is to increase the cost of borrowing, thereby slowing down the economy and reducing inflation. The short answer is that companies are making money hand over fist and the economy remains strong (3.6% over the next couple of years. If Things Are So Bad, Why Are Prices Going Up? unemployment rate; record 11.3m

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Among the concerns breeding skepticism about the economy and the markets are on-again/off-again trade negotiations, disruption of supply chains, declines in manufacturing activity, and sluggish capital spending. economy that may restrain the country's ability to grow at rates considered normal over the last several decades.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Among the concerns breeding skepticism about the economy and the markets are on-again/off-again trade negotiations, disruption of supply chains, declines in manufacturing activity, and sluggish capital spending. economy that may restrain the country's ability to grow at rates considered normal over the last several decades.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

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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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

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. We maintain a model portfolio internally to track the results of our asset allocation stances. Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47.

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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. Without a Script. Unemployment fell to 5.4% Impact on U.S. Impact on U.S.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

So they’d give individual asset allocation to people and they’d go invest their money. And so I remember back, back in 2005 when we first started, you know, we think about the banks. The banks would have an equity trading desk and they’d have a debt desk, right? H how did you figure that out?

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Brown Advisory

JULY 24, 2018

Rising interest rates, a flattening yield curve, continuing inflationary pressures and unemployment falling to multi-decade lows—we believe that all of these facts are indicative of an economy that is at or beyond full potential. We discussed some of these risks at length in our 2018 asset allocation report, “ Confronting the Unknown.”

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Brown Advisory

JULY 24, 2018

Rising interest rates, a flattening yield curve, continuing inflationary pressures and unemployment falling to multi-decade lows—we believe that all of these facts are indicative of an economy that is at or beyond full potential. We discussed some of these risks at length in our 2018 asset allocation report, “ Confronting the Unknown.”

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

And it’s kind of funny, if you, and now you see it in New York City, but if you showed up in a meeting in a coat and tie, post the dot-com era and coming into the more recent stuff, you were viewed as sort of the old economy. JOHNSON: And then I moved into, we had a bank at the time, and I moved into running part of the bank.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even as the “E” (earnings) component of the P/E ratio has increased in 2018 thanks to the strong economy and tax cuts, the “P” (price) component has moved up more, and valuations have risen perceptibly. Central banks across the globe are in various stages of withdrawing monetary support after many years of reflating.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even as the “E” (earnings) component of the P/E ratio has increased in 2018 thanks to the strong economy and tax cuts, the “P” (price) component has moved up more, and valuations have risen perceptibly. Central banks across the globe are in various stages of withdrawing monetary support after many years of reflating. Risks in Bonds.

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ClearMoney

JANUARY 4, 2022

Coming out of a volatile 2020, investors sought signals as to which way the global economy was headed. Value stocks, or those with lower relative prices, began the year strong as the economy reopened and interest rates were rising. 4Five-year break-even inflation rate data from Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Europe’s economy has picked up steam even with Ukraine battling Russian-backed insurgents and Greece narrowly dodging an exit from the eurozone. Greater consumption has sped growth in the eurozone’s four largest economies—Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Central bank stimulus. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Weak commodity prices and flagging emerging market economies have dimmed the outlook for energy and metals companies, and are shaking up the high-yield bond market. The market for high-yield bonds has become increasingly polarized as falling energy prices and slowing emerging market economies have broadly crimped company revenues.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, the fact remains the economy remains strong, corporate profits are at record levels, unemployment is low, and interest rates remain at attractive levels despite nagging inflation ( see chart below ) and the removal of accommodative monetary policies by the Federal Reserve.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My mental image was that he worked in the bank of, back of a bank approving mortgage applications. And actually Ben Inker is the head of our asset allocation group. We, we call asset allocation at GMO. How, how important are these other aspects to the way you manage assets?

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