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Weekly Market Insights – January 8, 2024

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

The interactive tax assistant tool can also help to determine your filing status and any relevant credits you should (or should not) claim. Math errors: Simple addition and subtraction mistakes can delay your return. Consider using electronic filing software that does the math automatically to avoid mistakes.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

You wouldn’t be surprised to learn the tax consequences of owning a mutual fund is a part of it. I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Really fascinating guy. So I was at Harvard.

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From Rocket Ship to Roller Coaster

Investing Caffeine

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. No information accessed through the Investing Caffeine (IC) website constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax or other advice nor is to be relied on in making an investment or other decision.

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It's All Relative

Brown Advisory

MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. The tax-exempt status of municipal bond income has helped to mitigate price erosion when rates rise, as each dollar of interest earned from a municipal bond is worth more to many buyers than a dollar of taxable income. Municipal Index.

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It's All Relative

Brown Advisory

Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. The tax-exempt status of municipal bond income has helped to mitigate price erosion when rates rise, as each dollar of interest earned from a municipal bond is worth more to many buyers than a dollar of taxable income. investment-grade tax-exempt bond market.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). Bank Rakyat’s micro lending business has approximately 98% annual payback on its loans.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? I lined up a bunch of job interviews with a variety of banks. So I got to know banks a little bit. We need a bad bank and a good bank. SALISBURY: Yes.

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