Abnormal Returns

JULY 30, 2023

Top clicks this week Ken Bui, "Private equity sucks the good out of American products and businesses." (luxcapital.com) Eight ways compounding can get interrupted. (blog.validea.com) What do you get when you run a regression on the returns of the Invesco QQQ Trust ($QQQ)? (alphaarchitect.com) How to properly use a DCF model. (capitalgains.thediff.co) Why you should keep in mind the 'return on hassle' when it comes to your investments.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 30, 2023

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of July 30, 2023 Monday: • 9:45 AM ET, Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for July. • 10:30 AM, Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for July. • 2:00 PM, Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) for July. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 futures are up 6 and DOW futures are up 29 (fair value).

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JULY 30, 2023

One of the hard parts about trying to focus on the long-term as an investor is the short-term toys with your emotions. In years like 2022 when everything is going down, you’ll always wish you would’ve taken less risk. In years like 2023 when everything is going up, you’ll always wish you would’ve taken more risk. Long-term returns are the only ones that matter but you have to get through a series o.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 30, 2023

The Heartland Tri-State Bank was closed on Friday , but wasn't on the unofficial list. The FDIC's official problem bank list is comprised of banks with a CAMELS rating of 4 or 5, and the list is not made public (just the number of banks and assets every quarter). Note: Bank CAMELS ratings are also not made public. CAMELS is the FDIC rating system, and stands for Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity and Sensitivity to market risk.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

JULY 30, 2023

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JULY 30, 2023

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

Korea has emerged as a global powerhouse in many industries. Read Portfolio Managers Elli Lee and Sojung Park’s latest on how Korea continues to create new opportunities for investors.

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The Big Picture

JULY 30, 2023

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints : About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

Healthcare stocks rank high on our like list, boasting a history of resilience amid both inflation and recession as well as attractive growth prospects thanks to potent innovation. Dr. Erin Xie examines the opportunity.

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Trade Brains

JULY 30, 2023

Best Demat Accounts In India : While the textbook definition of a demat account is the ability to buy and sell securities, traders, and investors today want to be able to do much more than that. The competition to gain market dominance over the brokerage industry in India has led to an outburst of fintech startups offering different types of investment and trading services, from portfolio backtesting, strategy building, and portfolio management all the way to investment advisory services.

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Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

Home Bias, Yield Hunters & Thematics - The Canadian Perspective. A conversation with Dave Nadig, Financial Futurist at VettaFi and Daniel Straus, MD, ETF Research & Strategy at National Bank Financial.

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Abnormal Returns

JULY 30, 2023

Markets Industrial stocks just keep cooking. (allstarcharts.com) Why consumer sentiment is improving. (tker.co) Why single point return estimates are not all that useful. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Why it's so easy to go down a gloom-and-doom path. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Companies At what price does Disney ($DIS) stock become a bargain? (barrons.com) Kellogg ($K) is planning to split its business in two.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

Solid fundamentals, decent valuations, and attractive income potential make a case for continued exposure to corporate credit even in an uncertain economic environment.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

A professional advisor can craft a tailored, holistic financial plan that supports your needs, goals and intentions for the future.

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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

Mutual Series’ Christian Correa and Mandana Hormozi believe the Japanese equity market is finally benefiting from reforms, inflation, and efforts to push companies to focus on growth and improve their valuations.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

When markets are rising, investors don’t always prepare for turbulence. Yet we think the best time to build a defensive plan for an equity allocation is before volatility strikes.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 30, 2023

The Fed continued to signal a "meeting-by-meeting" data-dependent approach to monetary policy. While the June Summary of Economic Projections suggested that there might be one more hike after today's, we think it's also possible that today's hike may be the last one.

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