Today’s Animal Spirits is presented by YCharts Mention Animal Spirits to receive 20% off (*New YCharts users only) Stories discussed: Zillow wants to flip your house Are auto loans the next subprime? Student loans for people over 600 How big should your next egg be? New Mauboussin Charlie Munger has no filter Wealthfront cash account Tax returns…
Un-Complicating Investing
I spend the majority of this space writing about the challenges associated with investing. I even wrote a whole book on it. Why am I such a Debbie Downer when it comes to this stuff? Well, maybe it’s sour grapes. Look, I tried for years to beat the market, couldn’t do it. Then over time…
The Purge
Do investors really need to hear from management every 90 days? The 13-week cycle of reporting earnings and issuing guidance breeds short-term thinking and invites the wrong kinds of questions. Going from quarterly reporting to a biannual system could allow for a sharper focus on running the business rather than wasting time on the business…
These Are the Goods
Articles Crowded trades work until they don’t By Michael Mauboussin Every recession begins with a softening of the data, but so too does every weak patch in the economy. By Tim Duy Investors are typically led to develop their factor return expectations with little more than an extrapolation of the factor’s past paper-portfolio returns. By…
The Elimination of Risk
Earlier this week I moderated a session at Inside ETFs called “How to capture outperformance and manage risk.” Before tackling the challenges of outperformance, I wanted to ask everybody how they think about the amorphous concept of risk. The responses ran the gamut from “the chance of permanent loss of capital” to “the chance of…
Animal Spirits: The Rich Man’s IRA
Today’s Animal Spirits is presented by YCharts Mention Animal Spirits to receive 20% off (*New YCharts users only) Stories discussed: Record flows out of stock funds The ETF business is not easy A new way to think about stocks in retirement Mind-boggling mistakes Expected returns for private equity The Jim Simons IRA One of the best stock…
The Case for Permanent Life Insurance
I never aspired to be an insurance salesman. I ended up in that role because the barriers to entry are non-existent, and more importantly, because I didn’t have other options. Like a lot of young people who enter that world, I was chewed up and spit out in a short period of time. In any…
These Are the Goods
Articles Even if you are somewhat decent at calling bottoms, you would still lose in the long run By Nick Maggiulli We may now understand the magic, but only the magician could have created the trick. By John Rekenthaler The law most likely to govern here is the Law of Unintended Consequences By Jason Zweig…
Miss the Worst Days, Miss the Best Days
If you missed just the 25 strongest days in the stock market since 1990, you might as well have been in five year treasury notes. This remarkable data point is almost always followed by “time in the market beats timing the market.” I’m generally on board with this line of thinking, however, I don’t necessarily…
Video Killed the Radio Star
Not sure the title of this post makes any sense but I couldn’t think of something better. I did a hit yesterday with Michael Santoli at CNBC talking about the latest rally and if it might soon fizzle out (spoiler, I don’t know). Why aren’t I smiling you might be wondering? Why aren’t I looking into…
