The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Netflix, Facebook and Amazon are each up 60% in the first 11 months of the year. Apple, is up 50%. Google, the laggard, is up just 34%. These five stocks have added over $900 billion in market capitalization in the first eleven months of the year. The tech-heavy index, of which these companies represent one third of, is up 33% year-to-date, and is on pace to close higher for the ninth year in a row.
Brown Advisory
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Balancing Act | A New Publication Series achen Tue, 11/28/2017 - 13:39 We believe that investing in equities should be a balancing act, not an exercise in placing bets on one side of the market. A Series Discussing Active Management In Late-Cycle Equity Markets Many investors are worried about the age of the bull market, how much longer it can last and what might happen to their investments in a downturn.
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Brown Advisory
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Balancing Act | A Stroll Down Hindsight Lane achen Tue, 11/28/2017 - 14:27 Market downturns and recessions may seem easy to predict. But timing the market is extremely difficult without the benefit of hindsight. Ultimately, fundamentals drive stock performance. Over shorter periods of time, this relationship is not very reliable, as stock prices are also affected by a tremendous amount of market noise—announcements from the Fed, political angst or exuberance, fears of war, hope of peace, and a h
Brown Advisory
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Balancing Act | A New Publication Series. achen. Tue, 11/28/2017 - 13:39. We believe that investing in equities should be a balancing act, not an exercise in placing bets on one side of the market. A Series Discussing Active Management In Late-Cycle Equity Markets. Many investors are worried about the age of the bull market, how much longer it can last and what might happen to their investments in a downturn.
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NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Balancing Act | A Stroll Down Hindsight Lane. achen. Tue, 11/28/2017 - 14:27. Market downturns and recessions may seem easy to predict. But timing the market is extremely difficult without the benefit of hindsight. Ultimately, fundamentals drive stock performance. Over shorter periods of time, this relationship is not very reliable, as stock prices are also affected by a tremendous amount of market noise—announcements from the Fed, political angst or exuberance, fears of war, hope of peace, and
The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
Articles No invention has been more disruptive to the asset-management industry in the last quarter-century than the exchange-traded fund. With Crystal Kim Dave Nadig, Barry Ritholtz, Corey Hoffstein, and Ben Fulton Systematic, rather than faith-based. By Phil Bak So are all liquid alternative funds bad? By Jeremy Schwartz Staying cheap is not hard.
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The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Articles Saving is passive, prioritizing is active. By Mike Dariano The process for producing legal filings runs like an assembly line for making widgets. By Stacy Cowley and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Everyone has an itch By Craig Shapiro We would wager that few other arguments have the power to turn off the critical thinking elements of our brain like valuation.
The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Stretching a linear axis vertically to prove a point. Don't do this. Some things should be shown as a level, not a percent change. The ten-year yield going from 2% to 2.1% is not a 5% change, it's a ten basis point move. The same holds for the VIX. Don't do this. So many things wrong with this one. This chart provides zero information. Comparing dollars across multiple decades have to be real, not nominal, and this should be shown as a percent change, year-over-year works.
The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 5, 2017
Articles We focus a lot on the basis points and probably not enough on the percentage points. By Jason Zweig So we write 2,000 books on how Buffett sizes up management teams when the biggest and most practical takeaway from his success is, “Start investing when you’re in third grade.” By Morgan Housel In short, nobody really knows. By Jack Vogel Fear is loud.
The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Why Bitcoin Matters Coinbase has more accounts than Schwab Bitcoin surges past $9,500 This poll is incredible. [link] New managers and career risk. [link] The future will look like the recent past. The New Retirementality. It's a two horse race. [link] 2017 is the year of stock market superlatives. [link] Volatility shrugged. [link] Thanks for listening!
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Brown Advisory
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Investment Perspectives | “Undoing” the Fed’s Balance Sheet achen Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:18 These days, it seems like all eyes are on the Federal Reserve. Well, maybe not all eyes, but certainly a large number of investors are paying unusually close attention to the Fed as it begins to unwind its bond investments and thus reduce the size of its balance sheet.
Brown Advisory
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Investment Perspectives | “Undoing” the Fed’s Balance Sheet. achen. Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:18. These days, it seems like all eyes are on the Federal Reserve. Well, maybe not all eyes, but certainly a large number of investors are paying unusually close attention to the Fed as it begins to unwind its bond investments and thus reduce the size of its balance sheet.
The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 12, 2017
Articles An accelerating number of Americans are now recipients of independent advice and are talking to their friends about it By Shirl Penney The look we get is always the same — like they just dropped their towel and we saw more than we should have. By Dina Isola Even the bulls are scared By Joe Fahmy We are all in the same boat. So are our colleagues and peers.
The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
On today's show, Ben and I speak about how career risk creates inefficiencies in the market, signs of froth, the Vanguard of alternatives, and ETF price wars. Links to articles discussed below. AQR: The Vanguard of Alternative Investing Asness Says Active Management, Not Passive, Is Too Big Small IPOs are Dying Why Vanguard Isn’t Freaking Out About Fewer Public Companies Corey Hoffstein on overweighting international stocks A Reality Check on Stock-Market Anomalies WeWork's $20 Billion Journey o
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