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William Bernstein Helps Investors Improve

The Motley Fool

If you have enough safe assets, if you have enough treasury bills to live on for three years, or five years, or better yet, a decade. You're not going to panic when the rest of your holdings, the risky asset, the stocks that you own, fall by 50%, 60% You're not going to pull the trigger and sell those at the bottom.

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Interested in Investing in Canadian Stocks? Read On.

The Motley Fool

You want to be a buyer of these types of assets when things look bad. Go back and look at what happened to the US in 2007-2009. You want to be a buyer of these types of assets when things look bad. They are preparing for loans to go bad, and this all sounds bad. Always invert. Always invert. I own some myself.

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Transcript: Michael Carmen, Wellington

The Big Picture

At one point in time, Jack Bogle, founder of, of Vanguard was chairman of their mutual funds. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q2 2023

Pension Pulse

In Treasuries, yield on the 10-year pulled back from Thursday’s levels that were approaching the highest since 2007. streak that long has only been seen in recessions that started in 1973 and 2007 pic.twitter.com/ThjCW8yQy5 — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) August 18, 2023 Where's the recession? UK and German bonds advanced.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

He also helped run some of their mutual funds and helped put together their first ETF, and he has really quite an astonishing track record. The Quality fund mutual fund that GMO runs that symbol G-Q-E-T-X, it’s just crushed it over the past decade. a year, way over both. Really fascinating guy.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. I wish more mutual funds and ETFs showed that data. Kind of unique. They have a very unique approach.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.