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Ben Carlson is a blogger at A Wealth of Common Sense and a contributor to various financial publications. He focuses on bringing clarity to complex topics in finance, personal finance, investment, and economics, with a keen interest in markets, inflation, and real estate. Ben's insights have been featured in Pac-12 Networks, Fortune, RealClearMarkets, and other prominent platforms.
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Derek Thompson wrote the story of the year so far at The Atlantic about how anti-social we’ve become as a society:
When Dick and Mac McDonald opened the first McDonald’s the idea was to bring fast, cheap food to busy people in the suburbs of Chicago.
One of my favorite ongoing economic stats is the fact that the U.S. economy has been in a recession for just two months out of the past 15-and-a-half years.
Say the 10 year got to 5% and you wanted to allocate some of the 40 side there. Wouldn’t you be better off buying the bonds straight up as opposed to an ETF like IEF? The ETF is no guarantee of principal return, no?
On a recent episode of TCAF ( Ep. 171 with Harvey Schwartz ) you and Josh mention how wealth management has drastically changed over the last ~20 years specifically citing that CFP candidacies are at record highs while CFA candidacies are at record lows. Knowing you and Ben are both charterholders, what do you think of this trend and how would you suggest a young person consider these options for extra-curricular education and accreditation?
Institutional investors made a huge push into hedge funds following the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
Seth Klarman and a lot of hedge fund managers stayed too conservative for too long after the 2008 financial crisis.
By: Ben Carlson
On today's show, we are joined by Kyle Brown, CEO, President, and CIO of Trinity Capital to discuss valuations in the VC market, what advisors should be asking about when investing in this space, issues with crowding within the private credit space, and much more!
I will never go all in or all out with my portfolio.
I am roughly 100% equities, a mix of S&P and global stock indices. I have now ridden out the GFC, COVID and other downturns and trust myself not to sell in the downturn. My wife and I have had good returns but I was wondering if holding a portion of stock in bonds as dry powder to invest in downturns wouldn’t be a better strategy. With fixed income earning decent returns now it may make more sense. Would the following strategies be better:
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