Wealth Management
JULY 19, 2024
The outage began early Friday morning with a software update from the cybersecurity provider Crowdstrike as the likely culprit. Schwab posted on its website a message warning users of potential issues.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 14, 2024
Top clicks this week How the rise of automated investing has changed the stock market. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why Bill Ackman spends so much time on Twitter. (sherwood.news) The CAPM doesn't work. Maybe this measure does. (klementoninvesting.substack.com) Why young men around the world are breaking hard to the right. (politico.com) Today's constructive CPI report rang a bell for financial markets.
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Calculated Risk
JULY 17, 2024
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Single Family Starts Up Year-over-year in June; Multi-Family Starts Down 23% YoY A brief excerpt: Total housing starts in June were above expectations and starts in April and May were revised up. The third graph shows the month-to-month comparison for total starts between 2023 (blue) and 2024 (red).
Nerd's Eye View
JULY 19, 2024
Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that Charles Schwab and other brokerage platforms are planning to increase the interest rates they pay on client cash held in their platform or cash sweep programs, which could boost the income of clients who maintain a cash balance in their accounts.
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Wealth Management
JULY 17, 2024
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision raises concerns among tax lawyers.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 16, 2024
Rates Widening deficits don't seem to be putting a crimp on Treasury funding. (wsj.com) What an inverted yield curve (still) says about the odds of a recession. (econbrowser.com) Real estate Striking out on your own these days is expensive. (housingwire.com) Evictions are on the rise in a lot of localities. (wsj.com) Economy National homebuilder confidence is soft.
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A Wealth of Common Sense
JULY 14, 2024
Here’s a scenario I was presented with recently: Five years ago, a relatively conservative investor was sitting on some cash and seeking a more balanced portfolio. To keep things simple, this investor split the difference between stocks and bonds by allocating 50% to equities and 50% to fixed income. Five years later there is a clear winner in terms of performance within this 50/50 portfolio: You basically doubled.
Wealth Management
JULY 16, 2024
Some 64% of advisory firms have no plans to develop or use client-facing artificial intelligence, yet 46% said it was a chief compliance concern, according to the ACA Group's latest survey.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 17, 2024
Strategy Rebalance your portfolio to tame risk, not to increase returns. (morningstar.com) It's never been easier to get distracted by other people's wealth. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Finance The commercial real estate mess is well under way. (wsj.com) How Charles Schwab ($SCHW) is changing its banking business. (riabiz.com) Apple Taboola is going to sell ads for Apple ($AAPL).
Calculated Risk
JULY 13, 2024
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. • 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in June • Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-July 2024 • A Discussion of the Housing Market with Lance Lambert (ResiClub) • Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rate Decreased in May, Multi-family Increased Slightly • 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in June This is usually published 4 to 6 times a week and provides more in-dep
Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive
Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.
Carson Wealth
JULY 18, 2024
Carson Investment Research 2024 Midyear Outlook: Eyes on the Prize The economy continues to see a solid rate of expansion with low risk of a recession. We are targeting a total return for the S&P 500 of 17-20% in 2024. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index outperforms short-term Treasuries in the second half of the year. Here we sit at midyear, and many investors should be feeling pretty good.
Wealth Management
JULY 16, 2024
BlackRock’s plans to leverage its recent acquisition of Preqin to build private market ETFs have drawn skeptics, reports the Financial Times. Fortune profiled nine executives in the burgeoning private credit arena. These are among the investment must reads we found this week for wealth advisors.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 16, 2024
Managed futures Why managed futures stand out among hedge fund strategies. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Comparing the correlation benefits of managed futures vs. market-neutral multi-factor investing. (insights.finominal.com) Michael and Ben talk with Eric Crittenden of Standpoint Funds. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Research What role do commodities play in a portfolio?
Calculated Risk
JULY 19, 2024
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in June A brief excerpt: From housing economist Tom Lawler: Based on publicly-available local realtor/MLS reports released across the country through today, I project that existing home sales as estimated by the National Association of Realtors ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.93 million in June , down 4.4% from May’s preliminary pace and down 4.4% from last June’s seasonally adjusted pac
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
A Wealth of Common Sense
JULY 16, 2024
There aren’t all that many millionaires in the world. People with wealth in excess of $1 million make up just 1.5% of the world’s population. Yet this group controls nearly half of the world’s wealth (around $214 trillion in total). There are even fewer billionaires — a little less than 2,700 worldwide or a number that rounds down to 0% of the global population.
Wealth Management
JULY 15, 2024
With the estate tax exemption sunset looming, the time to begin planning is now.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 18, 2024
Markets A great visualization of how calm the U.S. stock had been up until this week. (sherwood.news) Legalized gambling is illegal in India, but online stock trading is not. (on.ft.com) Finance Private equity is sitting on record dry powder. (institutionalinvestor.com) No one really knows where that capital is headed. (ft.com) Private credit has plenty of capital to put to work as well.
Calculated Risk
JULY 18, 2024
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For June, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 36.7% YoY, but still down 32.4% compared to April 2017 to 2019 levels. Now - on a weekly basis - inventory is up 35.8% YoY. Realtor.com has monthly and weekly data on the existing home market.
Speaker: Erroll Amacker
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.
Nerd's Eye View
JULY 16, 2024
Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 394th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Christi Van Rite. Christi is the Founder of White River Consultants, a firm that provides administrative family office services to 17 ultra-high-net-worth households, and is on track to generate nearly $1.5M in revenue this year from its specialized services.
Wealth Management
JULY 16, 2024
Time to bust the myth of gold as a safe-haven asset.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 19, 2024
Markets How climate change could strand trillions in investments. (bloomberg.com) Why the stock-bond correlation matters. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Companies Crowdstrike ($CRWD) has some explaining to do as the world's computers go down. (theverge.com) Google ($GOOGL) just keeps getting worse. (om.co) Have we already passed peak AI hype? (bigtechnology.com) Media Netflix ($NFLX) is unique in its ability to turn old shows into hits.
Calculated Risk
JULY 13, 2024
The key reports this week are June Retail Sales and Housing Starts. For manufacturing, the June Industrial Production report and the July New York and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys will be released. -- Monday, July 15th -- 8:30 AM: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for July. The consensus is for a reading of -6.0, unchanged from -6.0. 12:30 PM: Discussion, Fed Chair Jerome Powell , Conversation with David M.
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A Wealth of Common Sense
JULY 19, 2024
The Fed will likely begin cutting interest rates in the months ahead, for good reason. Last week felt like a victory against high inflation: We’ve now had no price increases on the overall inflation rate for two months.1 Some pundits still aren’t so sure it’s time to take a victory lap just yet. What about the 1970s? There was a spike in inflation at the outset of the decade, it fell, then re-accelerate.
Wealth Management
JULY 17, 2024
Rather than stifling creativity, set processes ensure efficiency, accuracy and repeatability in client service.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 15, 2024
Markets When it comes to markets, speed isn't always better. (forkingpaths.co) Europe's luxury good stocks have had a good decade. (sherwood.news) Asset management Asset managers are seeing falling profitability. (institutionalinvestor.com) Goldman Sachs' ($GS) asset and wealth management division saw a boost in revenue. (cnbc.com) Funds The outskirts of the ETF industry are growing and getting weirder.
Calculated Risk
JULY 19, 2024
The advance estimate of 2nd quarter GDP will be released next week. From BofA: Our 2Q GDP tracking estimate is up two-tenths to 2.4% q/q saar since our last publication, largely due to higher-than-expected industrial production (IP) and housing starts and permits [July 18th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We boosted our Q2 GDP tracking estimate by 0.3pp to +2.6% (qoq ar) and our Q2 domestic final sales forecast by 0.1pp to 2.2%.
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Alpha Architect
JULY 19, 2024
The amortization of volatility should be of concern for private capital asset classes. In order to properly budget for beta risks, it is critical that investors in private assets understand the amount of systemic (beta) risk that will “wash” into their private portfolios. The Impact of Amortizing Volatility across Private Investments was originally published at Alpha Architect.
Wealth Management
JULY 19, 2024
Dynasty Investment Bank advised Abacus, which launched a wealth management division last year, on the deal with Carlisle Management.
Abnormal Returns
JULY 19, 2024
Listening Podcasting app Overcast just turned 10 years old. (sixcolors.com) Matt Reustle and Dom Cooke talk podcast monetization with Matthew Sherry who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Platform Media. (joincolossus.com) Startups Logan Bartlett talks with Eric Glyman, CEO of Ramp. (theloganbartlettshow.simplecast.com) Jim O'Shaughnessy talks the metaverse and more with Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion.
Calculated Risk
JULY 18, 2024
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 13 July The U.S. hotel industry reported higher performance results than the previous week but lower comparisons year over year, according to CoStar’s latest data through 13 July. 7-13 July 2024 (percentage change from comparable week in 2023): • Occupancy: 69.2% (-3.7%) • Average daily rate (ADR): US$158.21 (-1.5%) • Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$109.51 (-5.2%) emphasis added The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occu
Speaker: Aaron Berson
Managing spend is more than a cost cutting exercise – it's a pathway to smarter decisions that unlock efficiency and drive growth. By understanding and refining the spending process, financial leaders can empower their organizations to achieve more with less. Explore the art of balancing financial control with operational growth. From uncovering hidden inefficiencies to designing workflows that scale your business, we’ll share strategies to align your organization’s spending with its strategic g
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