The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 25, 2018
We talked about: Some annoying finance phrases What if Tesla were a private company? Netflix is beating all expectations.But should it be worth more than Disney? The Amazon shareholder letter Chris Bosh knows nothing about money.How Greenblatt would explain things Listen here: Charts mentioned Tweets mentioned [link] [link] Recommendations Rocket Men will probably be my favorite book of the year.
Brown Advisory
APRIL 18, 2018
Balancing Act | For Good Measure: How We Value Global Leaders achen Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03 Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio. In this article, Global Leaders portfolio managers Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson discuss the dangers of oversimplifying valuation.
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Wealth Pilgrim
APRIL 11, 2018
Many times, you see a market that looks really promising and as such, you can see lots of young, inexperienced entrepreneurs rush in to try to make a buck. Often, in these cases, the only people who make any money are the ones selling these would-be business magnates the tools they need to get started […]. The post Why Most Bloggers Are Not Successful, Why You Should Not Try and What You Should Do Instead appeared first on Wealth Pilgrim.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 23, 2018
How can Netflix be worth nearly as much as Disney? Five years ago, Disney was worth nearly ten times as much as Netflix, and over this time, Disney's earnings have been 35 times larger than Netflix. Yet the gap in company size has all but disappeared. How is this possible? Over the last five years, Netflix has seen its revenue growth surge six times faster than Disney.
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The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 22, 2018
Articles The most dominant creatures tend to be huge, but the most enduring tend to be smaller. By Morgan Housel We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. By Nick Maggiulli Mr. Paulson has acknowledged making mistakes By Gregory Zuckerman The company needs to figure out how to be rewarded on Wall Street without creeping out Main Street.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 21, 2018
Last week Barry sat down for an amazing conversation with Joel Greenblatt, author of Y ou Can Be a Stock Market Genius (originally titled Any Fool Can Be a Stock Market Genius ). Greenblatt tells a story about when he went to a school in Harlem to talk with kids about investing. To explain how markets work and how they influence behavior, he brought a jar of jelly beans into the class room and had the kids write down how many beans they thought were in the jar.
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The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 18, 2018
Stories Discussed Asia is disrupting Silicon Valley This guy has a $76,000 pension. Per month. Germans save a lot of money. Ben says the 200-day is bullet proof. What if the future is better than we think? Everybody expects lower returns. Borrowers are pushed deeper into debt. But the next recession doesn't have to mirror the last one. How to save more money Listen here: Tweets mentioned [link] [link] [link] Charts mentioned Recommendations: The Book of Basketball The Disappeared Dark on N
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 18, 2018
A few weeks ago Tadas Viskanta asked a bunch of bloggers the following question: What ETF, if it were launched tomorrow, would you invest in with little (or no) hesitation? Said another way what asset class or strategy is not currently (effectively) available in an ETF wrapper? My answer: Nothing. I’m content. Little did I know that just a few weeks before he asked this, iShares came out with an interesting new set of "evolved" sector ETFs.
Brown Advisory
APRIL 18, 2018
Balancing Act | For Good Measure: How We Value Global Leaders. achen. Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03. Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio. In this article, Global Leaders portfolio managers Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson discuss the dangers of oversimplifying valuation.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 17, 2018
Some things look really impressive at first glance. Walking on burning wood is a perfect example, which John Allen Paulos writes about Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences: The practice has often been cited as an example of "mind over matter" and you don't have to be innumerate to be impressed initially with such a feat. What makes this phenomenon less remarkable is the relatively little-known fact that dehydrated wood has an extremely low heat content and very poor heat con
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Brown Advisory
APRIL 16, 2018
The Other 95% achen Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:23 The traditional goal for a nonprofit’s investment portfolio was to earn a 5% return or so that could be used to fund the nonprofit’s programs. Today, we help nonprofits make an impact with the other 95% of their portfolio. Until recently, the role of a nonprofit’s investment portfolio was straightforward: Meet a designated annual spending rate or growth rate while preserving the underlying investment capital.
Brown Advisory
APRIL 16, 2018
The Other 95%. achen. Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:23. The traditional goal for a nonprofit’s investment portfolio was to earn a 5% return or so that could be used to fund the nonprofit’s programs. Today, we help nonprofits make an impact with the other 95% of their portfolio. Until recently, the role of a nonprofit’s investment portfolio was straightforward: Meet a designated annual spending rate or growth rate while preserving the underlying investment capital.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 15, 2018
Articles Experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and only then provides the lesson. By Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning Seeking out problems for which no solution currently exists By Amanda Cantrell It’s an uncertain business By Ben Smith Being human is being able to enjoy life By Khe Hy You couldn’t pay me six-figures to take back the experiences I had during my four years of college.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 12, 2018
What are the chances that the next recession looks like the last one? I guess that number can't be quantified, but I'd also guess that it's a lot lower than people expect. The banks were at the epicenter of the greatest financial crisis this generation has ever seen, so it's natural to think "here we go again" when you see headlines like this: Big Banks Find a Back Door to Finance Subprime Loans: Lending to nonbank financial firms surges to record as banks avoid direct exposure Rising Home Price
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The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 11, 2018
Stories mentioned It's financial literacy month A little learning is a dangerous thing The value of I don't know Is college worth the cost? Investors want out of Pershing Square Did Einhorn lose his mojo? The last superstar investors This Novogratz profile is worth reading. A hedge fund bought the Denver Post. The writers are revolting. Diamonds, dude.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 9, 2018
Investors have been worrying about a rising rate environment for a few years now. What would that do to their bonds, and how would a normalization in rates affect stocks? The jury is still out, but so far so good. From July 2016 through February 2018, the ten-year treasury rate rose from 1.37% to 2.94%. Over this 19 month period, a broad basket of bonds (BND) fell 2.13%.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 8, 2018
Articles The book officially killed the category. By Steven Wood The growth in market capitalization at these companies is the stuff of investing legend By Aswath Damodaran The difficult part about working in a service profession is that you’re not selling a finished, manufactured product. You’re selling yourself or your firm’s ability to deliver on promises.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 4, 2018
On this week’s Animal Spirits we discuss: There were few places to hide in the first quarter Would you rather a lump sum or an annuity? States are strapped for cash 10 years after the crisis Ben got actually'd by a Senator The case for buybacks Listen here: Charts mentioned True story Chart crime of the week Tweets mentioned [link] [link] Recommendations I Contain Multitudes Elon Musk Ted Seides and Khe Hy Adam Grant Work Life Silicon Valley looks promising Ben endorses Bill Hader's new show, Ba
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Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 4, 2018
On the podcast this week, Ben and I spoke about an 18 year old who recently won the lottery. She was given the choice of receiving a $1 million lump sump, or $1,000 a week for life. She chose the weekly payment. This is the wrong mathematical decision. The time value of money says that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow, so opting for $1,000 every week instead of the million dollars today doesn't compute.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 2, 2018
If you're reading this, you've probably already heard. The S&P 500 closed below its 200-day moving average for the first time 443 days, ending the third longest streak of all-time. Were we "due" for a pullback? Well, at their peak in January, stocks were trading as far above their 200-day moving average as they had since 2011. But historically, returns have actually been better when stocks were in "due for a pullback territory.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 11, 2018
"A.B.C. Always be closing." When I hear the word salesman, this is what comes to mind. Scenes and images like this lead us to believe that selling is a zero sum game, with all of the benefits going to the seller, and very little accruing to the buyer. There are two types of products- ones that are bought and ones that are sold. Insurance falls into the second bucket.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 16, 2018
Poker is a what-if game. What if I re-raised instead of just called. What if I got the Queen on the river. What if I just folded pre-flop. There are 2,598,960 possible hands, so if you ever played, you've agonized over the what-ifs. Life delivers an endless array of what-ifs, because we only experience one version of what could have been. A lucky break here, a chance meeting there.
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The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 24, 2018
In 1966, Gemini XI traveled 853 miles above the earth's surface in the farthest space mission ever. Apollo 8 would shatter that record just two years later, taking Frank Borman, William Anders, and Jim Lovell to the moon, 240,000 miles away. The Saturn V had 5.6 million parts, carried a million gallons of propellant, and weighed 6.2 million pounds.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 29, 2018
Articles Being smart or stupid didn’t necessarily determine the outcome. It’s just the way things worked out. By Josh Brown Bearing too little risk is precisely how investors end up failing slowly. By Corey Hoffstein Is the US stock market in another bubble? Yes. By Rob Arnott, Shane Shepherd, and Bradford Cornell All it takes is one small choice to compound into a large problem By Nick Maggiulli There are always trade-offs.
The Irrelevant Investor
APRIL 1, 2018
Articles Overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles are what defines us. By Anthony Isola Watching markets go up and down isn’t intellectually stimulating for most regular people. It’s a burden. By Morgan Housel Repetition is difficult in this business and the replication of past success stories is impossible. By Josh Brown Momentum is the premier market anomaly By Corey Hoffstein You could end up living your life based on someone else ’s values By Nick Maggiulli Cost wasn’t a problem in the
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