Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Seasoned financial advisors have likely worked with clients with a wide variety of workplace retirement accounts, which can vary in terms of their investment offerings, fees, and other characteristics. But given that the U.S. government is the largest employer in the country, it can be especially helpful for advisors to be familiar with the ins and outs of (and recent changes to) the Federal government’s own defined contribution plan: the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).

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The Reformed Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“When I see a bubble forming I rush in to buy, adding fuel to the fire. That is not irrational.” – George Soros, 2009 I’ve spent 25 years watching, trading and investing in the stock market. The repetition of patterns is amazing. In every generation we see new bubbles, which form when a new innovation comes along and everyone gets excited about the future.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I am always fascinated when seemingly random sources converge on the same concept. The current convergence involved some research I was doing centered on Dunning Kruger, Vanguard’s Tim Buckley, my partner Josh’s AI/ChatGPT post, and the general state of the market. It’s like a real-time version of “ The Blind Men and the Elephant ,” by John Godfrey Saxe.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Business Barry Ritholtz talks with WIlliam Cohan author of "Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon." (ritholtz.com) Patrick O'Shaughnessy talks with Jeff Green who is the CEO and co-founder of The Trade Desk ($TTD). (joincolossus.com) Howard Lindzon discusses the origin story of StockTwits. (howardlindzon.com) Food and drink Derek Thompson talks with Deen Shaker about the rise (and fall) of fake meat in America.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Welcome to the February 2023 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors! This month's edition kicks off with the news that the “financial monitoring software” platform Elements has raised $5 million in a seed-extension funding round as it seeks to establish a foothold in the rapidly growing AdvisorTech categ

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I get too many emails. So much so that I had to set up separate email addresses for things like subscriptions, etc. I am impressed with the overall quality of Substacks I receive; I have a few favorites that I never miss. But it hass become too easy to add another, and they all it piled up in my inbox, looking a little too much like homework. It recently got worse: I have noticed how many of my subscription emails in the inbox (see above) are now Substacks.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Strategy How a big, successful trade can distort your thinking for years to come. (youngmoney.co) Meb Faber on why more people don't invest in managed futures funds. (rcmalternatives.com) Companies Activist investors are lining up against Salesforce ($CRM). (wsj.com) Just how big is Apple's ($AAPL) services business? (finbold.com) Do we need to slow down the race to public AI?

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that according to CFP Board leaders, “everything is on the table” when it comes to the organization’s announced competency standards review. Among others, one notable item that could be reviewed is the current certification requirement that a candidate must have attained at least a bachelor’s degree, which some observers have suggested

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The Reformed Broker

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Bear Market Rallies – Another bear market rally or a new bull market? ►AI Bubble of 2023 – ChatGPT had over 100 million users in January.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I am in Florida for the big ETF Exchange event. It’s a giant annual conference with 2000+ people attending in Miami to network, talk ETF’s, and discuss the future of the industry. It’s always a worthwhile hang. (Full agenda here ) My contribution to the event is a live Masters-in-Business with the Vanguard Group’s CEO Tim Buckley. We will be recording it for broadcast next week; even if you cannot make it to Miami tomorrow, you will be able to hear what the CEO of Vanguard Grou

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Markets February has historically been the second worst month for the stock market. (allstarcharts.com) Finance We're all better off having a robust short selling community. (netinterest.co) Why Rothschild & Co is going private. (ft.com) Wall Street layoffs are nothing new. (npr.org) Companies Four big trends are causing the tech giants trouble.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For many financial advisors, setting asset minimums helps ensure that their firm can generate enough revenue to maintain business costs and compensate the advisor appropriately. While finding prospective clients who are a good fit for the firm can be challenging, what can be even more challenging is letting a prospect who doesn’t meet the firm’s asset minimum requirements know that they wouldn’t be a good fit for the firm.

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The Reformed Broker

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Brian Belski, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss earnings season, recession fears, market sectors, PE expansion out of a bear market, small cap stocks, consumer staples, Bob Iger getting things done, Microsoft vs Google, and much more! You can listen to the whole thing below, or find it wherever you like to listen to your favorite pods!

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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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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This week, we speak with financial journalist William D. Cohan, who is the bestselling author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, and The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., among other books. A former Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years, Cohan is also a founding partner at the media company Puck.

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Pragmatic Capitalism

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When I was 10 years old I read the classic “Where the Red Fern Grows” It’s a book about a young boy who adopts two dogs who eventually get into [ … ]

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Markets Ben Carlson, "Don’t buy or sell or hold anything because someone on TV or YouTube or Twitter or a blog or a TikTok video tells you to." (awealthofcommonsense.com) Neil Dutta, "In my view, what makes someone worth listening to is whether their thought process makes sense. It is not enough to point to this indicator or that one." (businessinsider.com) AI AI-powered search could help kill off the link ecosystem.

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The Reformed Broker

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Final Trades: Danaher, AbbVie, Paramount & more from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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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.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Inside Wall Street’s gloom-and-doom racket: If an ‘expert’ is warning you that the market is about to crash, check their math : Admittedly, stocks haven’t done well over the last year, but instead of providing clients and the general public with clear-eyed views, a new ecosystem of hackneyed, alarmist analysts is relying on low-quality data to push people away from steady investments into an alternative ecosystem of products of du

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Calculated Risk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 7.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 3, 2023. The Refinance Index increased 18 percent from the previous week and was 75 percent lower than the same week one year ago.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Strategy A look at long term, 10, 20, 30 year, stock market returns. (awealthofcommonsense.com) How paradigm shifts happen in markets. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Finance A couple of deals this week highlight a thaw in the IPO market. (cnbc.com) How much headway can startups make in the corporate credit card space? (thebasispoint.com) Big banks are struck with their trading businesses.

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The Reformed Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

UBS says buy Berkshire Hathaway from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

One of my favorite things about financial media is the profiles of individual investors in the Wall Street Journal. I don’t know how they do it but somehow the Journal gets regular people to spill their guts about thoughts on the markets or how they’re positioning their portfolios. This week’s piece on the rise and fall of amateur investors didn’t disappoint.

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Calculated Risk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

From the U.S. Courts: Bankruptcy Filings Drop 6.3 Percent Bankruptcy filings fell 6.3 percent for the 12-month period ending Dec. 31, 2022, continuing a fall that coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But individual filings under Chapter 13 increased significantly. Annual bankruptcy filings in calendar year 2022 totaled 387,721, compared with 413,616 cases in 2021, according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Top clicks this week 11 things that zero interest rates enabled including the rise of Cathie Wood. (youngmoney.co) 20 lessons Seth Klarman learned from the GFC including 'Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash.' (investmenttalk.substack.com) What can you assume about stock, bond and cash returns over the long run. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why side hustles aren't worth the hassle.

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Advisor Perspectives

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The greatest anomaly is that despite decades of poor performance and the failure to effectively hedge exposure to conventional security classes, assets under management among hedge funds have grown from about $300 billion 25 years ago to about $5 trillion today.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Facebook was one of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 in 2022, falling 64% on the year. Who knew pouring billions into the metaverse during a time of Fed tightening and 9% inflation would be a bad idea? Well last year’s loser has turned into their year’s darling. Facebook shares are up more than 55% in the first month and change of 2023, including a one-day jump of more than 20% this week after th.

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Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

GlobeSt.com looks at where the multifamily sector might be showing distress. Leasing momentum is improving at trophy office buildings in Washington, D.C. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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Calculated Risk

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Freddie Mac House Price Index Declines for 7th Consecutive Month in December A brief excerpt: Freddie Mac recently reported that its “National” Home Price Index (FMHPI) declined for the seventh consecutive month on a seasonally adjusted basis in December, putting the National FNHPI down 2.5% from its May 2022 peak, and down 5.0% Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA) from the peak.

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