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The Best Ten Years Ever

The Irrelevant Investor

When people look at financial markets, they see numbers and they hear narratives. But data can hide the past and stories can distort the present. The Dow gained 8% from 1966-1982. What does this reveal about what it was like to live and invest over this 17-year period? Nothing. History books will describe the last ten years as "a period of moderate economic growth on the back of accommodative central bank policy.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019 ajackson Sun, 06/30/2019 - 09:50 Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter - Q2 2019 The Global Leaders team are constantly striving to improve in everything they do. One method to facilitate this is their annual offsite. In this letter, the team distill some of their learnings and share some key reflections from their recent offsite.

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Animal Spirits,Talk Your Book: Factor Investing With Invesco

The Irrelevant Investor

Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by Invesco. Click here to learn more. On today's show we talk about: Invesco Global Factor Investing Study Why is the debate about whether or not you should time factors not relevant? What are the differences between investment factors and risk factors? Who shouldn’t invest in factors? Who actually put factor investing on the map?

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles This postseason 84% of Curry’s free throws were swishes By Ryan Krueger An investor must experience the highs of success and lows of failure several times before they can exploit these emotions in others. By Ian Cassel Risk management means paying insurance premiums all the time, not just when you want to By Ben Calrson People get mad about payment for order flow, because nobody writes books about Interest Rate Spreads Are Just Too Darn High.

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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year

Where are top advisors focusing in 2025? AcquireUp’s 2025 Industry Index reveals it all. Based on insights from 200+ financial professionals nationwide, discover why 74% say seminars and referrals deliver the best ROI, how automation is helping advisors scale faster, and why only 8% are tapping into niche marketing (a major growth opportunity!). Whether you're refining your client acquisition strategy or scaling your practice, this report gives you the real-world data, benchmarks, and action ste

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Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter - Q2 2019. ajackson. Sun, 06/30/2019 - 09:50. Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter - Q2 2019. The Global Leaders team are constantly striving to improve in everything they do. One method to facilitate this is their annual offsite. In this letter, the team distill some of their learnings and share some key reflections from their recent offsite.

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Drugs in the Lab and Some Other Things

The Irrelevant Investor

I listened to a great conversation this week with Russ Roberts and Adam Cifu , MD. They spoke about Cifu's recent paper, The Case For Being a Medical Conservative which takes a good hard look at evidence-based medicine. Cifu said two things that had clear parallels to investing: 1- " Should evidence come with an expiration date?" 2-"Once we take a drug which looks great in the lab and put it in a human being, boy it's a different game.