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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’23

Truemind Capital

Thankfully, the Governments intervened to avoid major spillover effects on the overall economy. Higher valuation of Indian markets compared to Global peers along with negligible earnings growth also didn’t help. We have also been inclined to take 5-10% portfolio exposure in Asian stocks (China, Singapore, Taiwan, etc.)

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Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks achen Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:25 Why Have High Dividend Yielding Sectors Done Well This Year? According to Morningstar, overall assets in dividend-focused ETFs and mutual funds have ballooned to $672.6 billion in assets they held in 2011. Reach for yield.

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Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks. According to Morningstar, overall assets in dividend-focused ETFs and mutual funds have ballooned to $672.6 billion in assets they held in 2011. Stretched Valuations. Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:25. Why Have High Dividend Yielding Sectors Done Well This Year?

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jan’24

Truemind Capital

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. One can consider debt portfolios with floating rate instruments for long-term allocation.

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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. To ensure the stability of the Government and keep its popularity maintained, the policymakers are forced to work out solutions to curb inflation and inflationary expectations. Source: ICICI MF.

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What lessons today’s investors can learn from the collapse of the Roman Empire?

Truemind Capital

Thus, by debasement of the currency, they were able to make more coins which led to higher spending by the Government. Fast forward to the present times, the gold standard is not used by any government now. That’s why we have been adding at least 10% of Gold exposure in our client’s portfolio since 2018. like US Dollar.

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Weekend Reading Magazine Covers and Market Caps

Discipline Funds

I recall one particularly glaring moment during 2009 when AIG became mostly owned by the US government and failed to meet S&P liquidity requirements, but they just ignored it. It forced me to think in a multi-temporal sense which has completely changed how I think about asset allocation.