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Balancing Act | Pulling the FANGs Apart

Brown Advisory

Balancing Act | Pulling the FANGs Apart achen Thu, 12/14/2017 - 11:34 The “FANG” companies—Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google—have been a dominant investment story in recent years. They have attracted attention as a group—as a success story and, more recently, as a target of skeptics— but these companies have far less in common than the “FANG” acronym and associated media coverage suggest.

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Animal Spirits: Mayday

The Irrelevant Investor

Topics discussed on the show. Jack Bogle is worried about U.S. pensions Something I'm worried about The pension fund private equity Hail Mary Jeremy Siegel expected returns Trading costs & the new market averages Investment costs have never been cheaper The bitcoin whales Coinbase: the heart of the bitcoin frenzy Animating Mr. Market Is Buffett bearish?!

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Balancing Act | Pulling the FANGs Apart

Brown Advisory

Balancing Act | Pulling the FANGs Apart. achen. Thu, 12/14/2017 - 11:34. The “FANG” companies—Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google—have been a dominant investment story in recent years. They have attracted attention as a group—as a success story and, more recently, as a target of skeptics— but these companies have far less in common than the “FANG” acronym and associated media coverage suggest.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles We have a full-blown mania on our hands and Wall Street is still at the drawing board. By Josh Brown For a time last week, Coinbase was among the 10 most downloaded iPhone apps, ahead of Uber and Twitter. By Nathaniel Popper Markets are supposed to match the needs of buyers with sellers at a fair price. By Tony Isola Oh, if only it were that simple.

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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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Lessons From the General

The Irrelevant Investor

Failure is a far better teacher than success because it's much easier to duplicate failure than it is to replicate success. If we can study somebody's shortcomings, we can take away tangible lessons and also realize that mistakes are just a part of the process. Some can be avoided, some we must learn for ourselves. Ulysses S. Grant was an enormously successful General in the Civil War and he spent eight long years as President of a healing United States.