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MiB: Jon McAuliffe, the Voleon Group

The Big Picture

McAuliffe has a unique track record of successful innovation applying statistical methods to real-life prediction problems, particularly in the financial markets. Voleon, which manages $10 billion in client assets, has achieved great success applying these technologies to investing.

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MiB: The Jeremies! Schwartz and Siegel on SFTLR!

The Big Picture

Professor Jeremy Siegel at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is frequently voted Best professor at Wharton, and is the author of Stocks for the Long Run , Jeremy Schwartz is CIO at Wisdom Tree Asset Management , where he has worked since May 2005. Favorite Books of Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jul’23

Truemind Capital

We believe the markets will be more volatile over the next 1 year than they have been in the last 7 years. We continue to stay under-allocated to equity (check the 3rd page for asset allocation) at the current valuation levels. Overall, we continue to recommend sticking to asset allocation with discipline.

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Friday links: principles and beliefs

Abnormal Returns

Strategy When should you change your asset allocation? amycastor.com) Books Five insights from Edward Chancellor's new book "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest." nextbigideaclub.com) Tyler Cowen recommends Jon Hilsenrath's new book "The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval."

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

The Conversation ) • Extreme Weather and Financial Market Uncertainty : Extreme weather can have signficiant effects on business performance— creating significant uncertainty about outcomes for those businesses. Financial markets show heightened uncertainty among investors for companies that have been hit by hurricanes.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Barron’s ) • Loose Monetary Policy and Financial Instability. Fed working paper finds that long periods of easy money leads to financial instability. This may not be surprising to financial market participants, but this is the first time I have seen a Fed working paper coming to this conclusion.

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Dollar Cost Averaging in a Bear Market Wins Again

A Wealth of Common Sense

I love studying financial market history. If you look back at enough charts and read enough books about market history, you’re invariably drawn to the booms and busts. And looking into the booms and busts makes you look at certain dates and outlier events.