Abnormal Returns
MAY 12, 2024
Markets No news is good news for the stock market. (tker.co) The stock market has gone nowhere the past 10 weeks. (allstarcharts.com) What Wall Street jargon really means. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Companies Apple ($AAPL) is now taking AI seriously. (nytimes.com) Adobe ($ADBE) is walking a fine line when it comes to AI. (theatlantic.com) Funds Mutual funds just keep closing.
A Wealth of Common Sense
MAY 12, 2024
Demographics are destiny but the reactions to that destiny aren’t set in stone. Take a look at how things have changed from 2010 to today along with where we’re going in the future: The largest age brackets today are in the 30-34 and 35-39 range. Hello millennials. By the 2030s and 2040s the largest cohorts will be in their 30s to 50s. But look at how the older buckets will slowly fill up over time.
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oXYGen Financial
MAY 12, 2024
The Irrelevant Investor
MAY 12, 2024
Articles Our goal is to build one of the best new housing developments in America (By Coby Lefkowtiz) It was an accidental metaphor that hit a little bit too close to home. (By Kyla Scanlon) Traditional TV is dying on the vine (By Alex Sherman) Amex customers in the US earn twice the average national income (By Marc Rubinstein, paid) The narrative that companies need $1B of ARR (or close to it) is no longer as relevant.
Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem
Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i
Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)
MAY 12, 2024
By Kennedy Sumarlie, CFP A year ago, I was talking to Mr. Prospect and his wife, who is a foreign citizen, regarding the importance of health insurance. He felt, however, that health insurance was not necessary because he was still young and there were many other more important priorities. A year later, he contacted me because he had a diagnosis of a disease (not critical), but the family immediately thought about the financial impact on them.
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Calculated Risk
MAY 12, 2024
Weekend: • Schedule for Week of May 12, 2024 Monday: • No major economic releases scheduled. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are down slightly (fair value). Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $78.26 per barrel and Brent at $82.79 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $70, and Brent was at $75 - so WTI oil prices are up about 10% year-over-year.
Steve Sanduski
MAY 12, 2024
Guests: Ashley Goodall , a leadership expert and the author of a thought-provoking new book, The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance. In a Nutshell: The tech boom popularized the idea that companies have to move fast, break things, and disrupt before they’re disrupted. But change for the sake of change can be a catalyst for confusion.
Calculated Risk
MAY 12, 2024
The first graph shows the unemployment rate by four levels of education (all groups are 25 years and older) through April 2024. Note: This is an update to a post from a few years ago. Unfortunately, this data only goes back to 1992 and includes only three recessions (the stock / tech bust in 2001, and the housing bust/financial crisis, and the 2020 pandemic).
Advisor Perspectives
MAY 12, 2024
As institutional investors, we most often represent risk as standard deviation or tracking error. But when we implement changes in our portfolios, the real-time risk happens much faster.
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As we step into 2024, the lending landscape evolves rapidly with technology, regulations, and market dynamics driving change. For banks and financial institutions to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers, these drivers must be understood and engaged with. Lenders can anticipate significant transformation fueled by technological advancements, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer behaviors.
Tobias Financial
MAY 12, 2024
We recently had our Quarterly Market Update Webinar, which you can replay here. However, we are excited to delve deeper into a crucial aspect of investing with our Portfolio Manager, Charles “Chad” NeSmith, CFA, CFP®. Chad is here to provide some extra credit by discussing individual stock risk compared to the risk associated with holding mutual funds or ETFs.
Zoe Financial
MAY 12, 2024
Market Drama Featuring Zoe CEO & Founder, Andres Garcia-Amaya, CFA May 13, 2024 Watch Time: 3 minutes Welcome to this week’s Market Drama! Stock Market Updates: The S&P 500 was up 1.9% for the week, up 9.5% for the year, less than 1% from its record highs (3rd consecutive week where we see gains for the S&P) Nasdaq was up 1.1% for the week, up 8.9% for the year.
Advisor Perspectives
MAY 12, 2024
Google DeepMind has released a new version of AlphaFold, a landmark tool for predicting protein structures, that puts the artificial intelligence software on a path to make breakthroughs in biology research and bolster a business that Google’s AI chief says could be worth north of $100 billion.
Abnormal Returns
MAY 12, 2024
Top clicks this week We are in the midst of a historic bond bear market. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why TIPS are more attractive than nominal bonds at this point. (morningstar.com) Charlie Munger was constantly learning and "unlearning." (davisfunds.com) Stocks have stopped going up. (sherwood.news) Don't take your investing advice from TikTok. (ritholtz.com) The number of single-stock ETFs is growing.
Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem
Join us for an enlightening webinar as we delve into the transformative realm of modern accounting practices. In today's digital age, the convergence of outsourcing and automation has revolutionized how businesses manage their financial operations. In this webinar we will explore the synergistic potential of these two strategies to streamline processes, enhance accuracy, save cost and drive strategic decision-making.
Advisor Perspectives
MAY 12, 2024
Active management can help investors address some of the especially tricky issues in sustainable equity portfolios.
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
MAY 12, 2024
YieldMax promoted the one year anniversary of the YieldMax NVDA Option Income Strategy ETF (NVDY). The fund is a single stock, covered call fund with a crazy high yield. More correctly, it is synthetically long the stock, buying a call and selling a put for the stock exposure and then selling a call against that combo. The chart compares it to the underlying common stock and a 2X version from GraniteShares.
Advisor Perspectives
MAY 12, 2024
Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said she doesn’t expect it will be appropriate for the Fed to cut interest rates in 2024, pointing to persistent inflation in the first several months of the year.
The Big Picture
MAY 12, 2024
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Modern Curse of Overoptimization : My current working definition of overoptimization goes like this: overoptimization has occurred when the introduction of immense amounts of information into a human system produces conditions that allow for some players within that system to maximize their comparative advantage, without overtly breaking the rules, in a way that (intentional or not) creates meaningful
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Digital platforms can provide you with plenty of solutions, yet many are still intimidated by them. It's time to end that worry and embrace what could make a major difference for your bank. Understanding how they work and how to best utilize them for your banks is key toward success. In this article, Biz2X breaks down all things digital platforms, including the many advantages of embracing them.
Advisor Perspectives
MAY 12, 2024
Amit Dholakia of Franklin Mutual Series explains why some US capital goods companies may be off to the races after years of merely plodding along.
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