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Our blog is where you can read about our take on matters regarding investment management and ancillary topics. Whether it’s from the industry or emerging trends, you can read about it here. We’ve also included various financial calculators and tools you may find useful.
The Productivity Boom and What It Can Mean for Investors
The post last year [Inflation Perspectives] focused on timeframes for economic growth and estimating it over the medium to long term using the growth accounting formula. Specifically, the prediction that, “Increasing innovation in automation, robotics, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence foreshadow significant productivity gains due to technological innovation in the future.” That materialized rather
Inflation perspectives: Factors to consider and how society ‘invents’ out of it
I would be remiss if I didn’t start this year’s blog, which centers on inflation, without acknowledging the questions we were considering at the beginning of 2023. Referring to the January 2023 post titled ‘2023: In like a lion, out like a lamb?’: “Questions to determine this year’s fate are: Is the engineered slowdown successful?
2023: In like a lion, out like a lamb?
You name it. 2022 was the worst year for [Insert favorite Asset class] since [Insert historic year], and you’re probably correct. One that’s commonly quoted is that it was the worst year for the 60% Stock / 40% Bond portfolio since 1936. We can agree that 2022 was a painful year for most asset classes. Inflation
Into the New Year – 2022
2021 was a banner year for the major U.S. indices. S&P 500 up 27%, Nasdaq up 21%, and the Dow Jones index up 19%. Large (by market capitalization) tech stocks led the way. F.A.N.G. names (Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google) as well as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla, most of which are trillion-dollar companies, helped the S&P
Evaluating Company Management
Most investors realize that it’s important for a company to have a good management team. The problem is that evaluating management is difficult. So many aspects of the job are intangible. It’s clear that investors can’t always be sure of a company by only poring over financial statements. Fallouts such as Enron, Worldcom, and Imclone have demonstrated the importance of
Environmental, Social, Governance Investing & Rating
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors are rapidly rising in investor cognizance worldwide. But it isn’t just conscientious backers and philanthropists filtering for ESG. When it comes to business; sustainability, equality, and a clean environmental record are essential facets of financial performance—and savvy investors are starting to embrace these determinants. ESG factors are used in
