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... ng his kids’ various team sports. He has spent many years volunteering as a coach for Little League baseball and CYO basketball. ...
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... what lies ahead.
Six years ago we became the first Registered Investment Advisor to use the NCAA basketball tournament as a way to show our readers a forward-looking view on the stock market. We break ...
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... do we sign up? Not so fast… Over the past five years this fund has lost -21% while the market has climbed +45%. Going further back (10 years) Hussman has lost -45% versus the S&P 500’s return of +51%. ...
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... YTD and basically triple the market return over the past 10 years!)
Another main facet to investing in this environment is to “continue to expect the unexpected”. An investor can improve their odds of ...
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... was absolutely negative. The sovereign debt crisis in Greece rattled nerves daily. Comparisons of Greece vanishing were eerily similar to the disaster of Lehman Brothers going bankrupt just three years ...
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... we’ve published over the past three years we clearly explained this day was overdue and would eventually arrive. It should be no secret that a market correction (technically defined as -10% or more) wa ...
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... are often regretted for years.
What adjustments did we make?
Losses clearly hurt. Behavioral economists have studied the human brain and the emotions caused by loss. It’s been documented that people ...
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We’re actually in an extremely low level of volatility. It’s been eight weeks since we’ve seen a move of at least 1% or more in the S&P 500 and that hasn’t happened in 21 years! We also just wrapped ...
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Dear Mr. Market:
How time flies! Our first letter to you was on March 20, 2013. This marks our 100th article. Over the last two years we have covered a vari ...
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... ng 33% over the past seven years! While we could make economic arguments on how some debt levels can be beneficial, the reality is that eventually markets will be forced to react when the proverbial “Band-A ...
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... has changed over the years and so has the science and data behind what it takes to be intelligently diversified. Forty years ago studies revealed that about 90% of the diversification benefit could be ...
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... products and loaded mutual funds, but today we will look at a product that is making a come back after declining in popularity over the last few years….Unit Investment Trusts or UITs.
The name itself ...
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You don’t have to be a professional money manager to be aware that the swift decline in oil prices has been one of the most impactful financial headlines in years. As a matter of fact if you didn’t ...
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... be? For the last several years investors have accepted the fact that interest rates are essentially zero and this portion of their portfolio warrants little to no attention. While this approach has been ...
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... will be the first time in over 30 years that a team stays unbeaten the whole season. Our own version of this (using investment themes and choices) shares the premise that we have four very decent #1 seeds ...
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... -3.1% in January but then February came around and erased all the negative returns for the year with a very strong month. As a matter of fact the S&P 500 had its best month in almost five years with a ...
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... will hear about Robo-Advisor’s in the coming months.
The vast majority of these firms have only
been in existence the last five years but the growth they have experienced is dynamic and catching ...
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... ahead and do a Google search for this term. It’s doubtful you’ll find anything about it because it’s our deep dark investing secret. Truth be told…it’s more like an observation after seeing over 20 years ...
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... has been propped up for over five years is about to come to an ugly end.
Before we tell you where which camp we think is right let’s first wrap up our year-end summary on all of the MPG Core Tactical ...
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... Foundation – Over the last several years this team member’s entire family has felt the impact of a genetic condition that causes tumors to aggressively grow. His brother and sister have both been diagnosed ...