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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.” I bought what some would call a death calendar. The average human...
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“Valuation changes rewarding cheap stocks and punishing expensive ones is one of the most powerfully recurring features of global equity markets.” – Dan Rasmussen, The…
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“Our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long-term. We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is,…
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“Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, not just by insurance companies and pension funds, but by aging boomers.” – Bill Gross, retired…
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“Interest rates go up and down, stock markets boom and bust, but human psychology never changes. I believe that studying how people think about and…
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Tariff Talk: Client Q&A on Market Impact and Economic Risks
“The higher returns to quantitative investing accrue from the abnormally bad behavior of humans at times of crisis.” – Dan Rasmussen, author of The Humble…
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Why This Correction Hits Harder
“In investing and life, you will make better decisions if you assume you are wrong and try your best to prove it by finding the…
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Global Markets are Telling a Different Tariff Story
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