“My most important discovery—a finding that changed the course of my career—is that the future is far less predictable than most investors think. The best…
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International Diversification: Looking Beyond the S&P 500
“Valuation changes rewarding cheap stocks and punishing expensive ones is one of the most powerfully recurring features of global equity markets.” – Dan Rasmussen, The Humble Investor In the spring of 2023, Larry Summers, former US. Secretary of the Treasury,...
read morePure Portfolios’ February 2025 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ February 2025 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans covers headline risk, AI trade fatigue, seasonality, corporate credit spreads, and volatility. Watch the…
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Myth Busting: What the Government Cannot Do
“Stories are always more powerful than statistics.” – Morgan Housel, Same as Ever There’s lots of wild theories rolling around about what the federal government…
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Err on the Side
“Most people make their investment decisions on the basis of an unreliable hodgepodge of half-baked logic, biases, hunches, emotion, and vague fantasies or fears about…
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Pure Portfolios’ January 2025 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ January 2025 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans covers the illusion of diversification, the Deep Seek disruption, Nvidia’s massive selloff, and the…
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No One Learns Anything in a Bull Market
“Mistakes present a choice: whether to update your ideas, or ignore the failures they’ve produced and keep believing what you’ve always believed.” – Shane Parrish,…
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Don’t Believe Everything You Hear on Tariffs
“Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to…
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Will Outsized U.S. Stock Returns Continue?
“When something is on the pedestal of popularity, the risk of a decline is high. When people assume — and price in — an expectation…
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Pure Portfolios’ December 2024 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ December 2024 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans reflects on a year of market resilience and the set-up heading into 2025. Nik…
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