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Top 10 Dividend Growth Portfolio

Dear Mr. Market

Inflation is currently at 40 year highs with increasing signs of slowing economic growth. While everyone is bantering about the official definitions of what a recession is, we’re very likely to see a period of stagflation. The Top 10 Dividend Growth Portfolio strategy is a concentrated portfolio.

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Client Letter | Could the Worst be Behind Us? | October 5, 2022

James Hendries

Said another way, this is the longest period since 1976 that bonds haven’t played the traditional role in portfolios by offsetting losses in the stock market. The value proposition for core bonds is that they tend to provide liquidity, diversification, and positive total returns to portfolios. So why own bonds at all?

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Client Letter | Looking Ahead | November 2, 2022

James Hendries

Some recent softening in economic data, coupled with signals from the bond market, may be indicating that Fed policymakers’ concerted inflation fight may be closer to the end than the beginning. We should also have slowing corporate earnings growth and greater economic uncertainty to contend with, some formidable seas to navigate.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. He’s a big picture guy.

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Bear Market

Dear Mr. Market

For starters, yes indeed the definition of a bear market is when we’ve drawn down -20% from a fresh market high. If your portfolio is down less than -18% this year… you’re beating the stock market. It’s been said that stocks slowly take the stairs on the way up but the elevator swiftly on the way down.

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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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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. I thought this conversation was absolutely fascinating and I think you will also, with no further ado, Goldman Sachs asset managements Elizabeth Burton. So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician.

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