A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 15, 2023

A reader asks: My wife and I are 42 with a 13-year-old son. We moved to Phoenix, AZ as immigrants 7 years ago with just a couple thousand dollars to our name. Since then have slowly progressed in our careers. At this point, here’s what we have accomplished financially: Annual combined income: $350k Cash in checking accounts: $230k Mortgage: $530k (28 years left) Investments through 401k, 529 plans: $100k Stock Ma.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 30, 2023

A quick note as the first half of 2023 draws to a close, shocking the locals with its intensity. Why? Because almost nobody saw this rally coming. 1 As of this moment, the indices stand appreciably higher than where they were on January 1, 2023: The NASDAQ 100 is up >38%, the S&P 500 is up ~15.5%, and the Russell 2000 small cap index is up almost 7%.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 27, 2023

Wealth.com's Ester is a proprietary model that can read and restate documents and hold both short and long-term memories of previous client actions.

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The Reformed Broker

JUNE 17, 2023

Please read this from Michael Santoli: Just as the depth of despond evident in investor-sentiment gauges around Labor Day was out of proportion to what the market and economy had been doing, the volume of cheer engendered by this four-week, 9% rally looks to be running at least a bit ahead of what has, after all, been a marginal upside exit from a long, grinding trading range.

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Abnormal Returns

JUNE 25, 2023

Also on the site Why we all need regular doses of Vitamin O, i.e. optimism. (abnormalreturns.com) Top clicks this week Warren Buffett's advice on active vs. passive investing is clear. (monevator.com) Joshua Brown, "The thing that everyone’s talking about is not always the thing that ends up mattering." (thereformedbroker.com) What the CIA can teach investors.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 13, 2023

Last year was one of the worst years ever for financial markets. Call it recency or loss aversion or some other Daniel Kahneman bias but for some reason, our brains are hard-wired to assume big losses will be followed by additional losses (just like we assume big gains will be followed by additional gains).1 The thing about big losses in the stock market is sometimes they are followed by big losses…but sometimes t.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2023

@TBPInvictus here: Contrary to 40+ years and counting of “trickle down” narrative, the reality is that the gap between the 1% and everyone else (let’s say the bottom 90%) has never been wider. It’s become a chasm, and the charts below tell the story. Here is the wealth share of the bottom 90% and the Top 1%, equalized in 1989: Here is both the share (scale at Left ) and level (scale at right) of total net worth held by the Top 1%.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JUNE 1, 2023

Today’s Compound and Friends is brought to you by Flourish: Thanks to Flourish for sponsoring this episode. Go to flourish.com to learn more about cash solutions for advisors. On today’s show, we discuss: Cathie Wood on NVDA stock ARKKs house view on AI and NVDA NVDA valuation updates ARKKs NVDA position since inception Big Tech’s biggest bets (or what it takes to build a billion-user platform) Company.

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The Reformed Broker

JUNE 11, 2023

The parabolic spike in 2-year Treasury bond rates this winter ended with a crescendo on Thursday, March 9th and Friday March 10th. That week, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank had thoroughly spooked the markets and convinced traders that the Federal Reserve would be forced to start downshifting its hiking cycle and the accompanying hawkish rhetoric.

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Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor

During an era of evolving consumer preferences, the banking sector is undergoing a profound shift. As customers continue to broaden their perspectives, banking professionals must support their customers' financial wellness by providing holistic financial advice that aligns with individual goals and circumstances. Without adapting, financial institutions will find that loyalty may crumble amid uncertainty.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 8, 2023

Treasury Secretary Yellen expressed her concerns about the effect that commercial real estate loans might have on banks. Forbes listed 71 real estate firms among the 2,000 largest public companies in the world. These are among the must reads from around the real estate investment world heading into the weekend.

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Calculated Risk

JUNE 23, 2023

From Black Knight: Black Knight: Past-Due Mortgages Approach Recent Record Lows as Serious Delinquencies Continue Improvement; Prepayments See Seasonal Rise • Reversing much of April’s calendar-driven spike, the national delinquency rate fell 11 basis points (bps) in May to hit 3.10% – the lowest it’s been other than March 2023’s record of 2.92% • The number of borrowers a single payment past due improved by 94K (-9.5%), erasing nearly half of the prior month’s increase • Serious delinquencies (

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 2, 2023

The AI craze is in full effect so everyone is trying to figure out who the winners will be. Maybe it will be the upstarts, some new start-up that gives you your own personal assistant in your ear, on your iPhone and at your desk. Or maybe it will be the big tech players who have gobs of money to throw at AI like Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Maybe it’s a company like NVIDIA that supplies the chips and software.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2023

 This week, we speak with entrepreneur Ramit Sethi, who is the founder and chief executive officer of the online education platform I Will Teach You to Be Rich (IWT ), which attracts more than 1 million readers a month. Sethi is also the host of the Netflix series “ How To Get Rich ,” which is based on his New York Times bestselling book “ I Will Teach You to Be Rich “; he also hosts a podcast of the same name.

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Alpha Architect

JUNE 30, 2023

Researchers have raised questions and led to research into how many factors are needed, the replicability of originally reported results, and the decay of factor performance over time. Diving Into the Performance of Factors was originally published at Alpha Architect. Please read the Alpha Architect disclosures at your convenience.

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The Reformed Broker

JUNE 5, 2023

On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Scott Patterson, Financial Journalist and Wall Street Journal Reporter, joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss Scott’s new book, Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis. Follow Scott on: Twitter Book. The post Black Swans, Stock Market Crashes and the Chaos Kings appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 30, 2023

The strategy and technology that carries it out creates a different set of forward-looking questions where accurate future projections will become increasingly more important.

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Calculated Risk

JUNE 22, 2023

The DOL reported : In the week ending June 17, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 264,000 , unchanged from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 262,000 to 264,000. The 4-week moving average was 255,750, an increase of 8,500 from the previous week's revised average. This is the highest level for this average since November 13, 2021 when it was 260,000.

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Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC

In today's rapidly changing business environment, building a resilient balance sheet is crucial to the survival of any business. A resilient balance sheet allows a company to withstand financial shocks and adapt to changing market conditions. To achieve this, companies need to focus on key strategies such as maintaining adequate liquidity, managing debt levels, diversifying revenue streams, and prioritizing profitability over growth.

Financial Planning

A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 20, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You need to understand corporations and the global economy generally function over the long haul. You need an understanding of how the different asset classes behave from a risk and reward perspective. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 17, 2023

This week, we speak with Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit. A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. She (and coauthor Joshua Rosner) recently published “ These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs―and Wrecks―America.

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Advisor Perspectives

JUNE 29, 2023

Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.0% in Q1 2023, according to the third estimate. This is slower than the Q4 2022 GDP third estimate of 2.6% growth but faster than the initial estimate of 1.1% growth and the second estimate of 1.3% growth.

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The Reformed Broker

JUNE 1, 2023

RWM is coming to Austin, TX June 12th-14th @Downtown with more detailsEmail us at info@ritholtzwealth.com subject line “Austin” to reserve a meeting slot! pic.twitter.com/9iSdG4HFf3 — Ritholtz Wealth (@RitholtzWealth) May 19, 2023 I’m headed out to Austin, Texas this June and bringing a whole bunch of my Ritholtz Wealth Management colleagues with me, including our financial planner in the area.

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Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker

If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up! With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. And while this may sound like great news for you and your clients, it won’t be worthwhile unless you have the latest techniques to back up your ambitions!

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Wealth Management

JUNE 12, 2023

Lenders on office assets are doing everything they can to avoid taking the keys on properties and working on extension and modification agreements, reports Bisnow. Don Peebles sat down with Commercial Observer to discuss how far Black real estate development has come. These are among the must reads from around the real estate investment world to start the week.

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Calculated Risk

JUNE 30, 2023

Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE report this morning, both through May 2023. CPI Shelter was up 8.0% year-over-year in May, down from 8.1% in April, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March 2023. Housing (PCE) was up 8.3% YoY in May , down from 8.4% in April (April was the cycle peak).

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JUNE 30, 2023

Here’s a headline from a Bloomberg story about the economy: And the lede: The recession calls are getting louder on Wall Street, but for many of the households and businesses who make up the world economy the downturn is already here. This story probably could have been written yesterday but it was actually published a year ago, in July 2022. If it seems like we’ve been reading about a looming recession for m.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 29, 2023

One of the most important aspects of becoming a good investor is creating a model of the world around you. To do this, you must have good decision-making skills, and the ability to make sense of incomplete and sometimes contradictory information. This is not easy. Indeed, it is often counterintuitive. What seems like an obvious market-moving data point or piece of news is very often already in the price.

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Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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Advisor Perspectives

JUNE 14, 2023

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released for May puts the year-over-year inflation rate at 405%. It is well above the 3.75% average since the end of the Second World War and above its 10-year moving average, now at 2.64%.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JUNE 6, 2023

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by birddogs: Go to birddogs.com/spirits and enter promo code SPIRITS for a free Yeti-style tumbler with your order. On today’s show, we discuss: A visual breakdown of America’s stagnating number of births Construction employment hits new high in May The labor shortage myth Eggs are going on sale just months after prices hit records Token projects have to eat that sh*t.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 6, 2023

A drop in demand for industrial space amid massive new product deliveries portends a potential glut of new product. Coupled with higher interest rates and worries about a recession, it’s forcing investors to rethink their acquisition strategies.

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