A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
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The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index was created by Lehman Brothers in the early-1980s to offer investors a benchmark for the investment grade taxable bond market.1
The index is made up of mostly Treasuries, corporates, mortgage-back securities and asset-back securities covering more than 10,000 fixed income securities in total.
The Agg is now the benchmark most active fixed income managers measure themselves against. It al...
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On today’s show, we discuss:
Why the ETF wrapper is unlocking the 40-year-old structured note market
Framing autocallable income as underwriting risk, like an insurance company
Why single-stock notes...
These are strange times for the markets and the economy.
Mortgage rates are now over 7% again.
The unemployment rate is still just 4%.
Fixed income investors now have 5% high quality bond yields and 4% cash yields. Those yields have been rising at a rapid clip.
Consumers have been forced to deal with $100 oil and $5 gas prices.
That’s led to an inflation rate of 3.4%, much higher than the Fed’s target which is...
There’s an old adage that a dart-throwing monkey could beat most professional investors.
But that’s just not true because of the way the stock market usually works. There are far more losers than winners when it comes to individual companies so the monkey would have a hard time unless they got lucky.
Through the close of the market on Thursday, the S&P 500 was up more than 13% on the year.
But the experien...
We also discussed questions about inflation, defensive stocks, career advice for equity analysts and paying off your mortgage early.
Further Reading:
Power Laws in the Stock Market
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