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A lever works by reducing the amount of force required to move an object by increasing the distance through which the force acts. In the world of investing, leverage appears everywhere and is the act of using “borrowed” financial instruments (the lever) to increase the return on an investment. In our case, the fixed exercise […]
Not to be confused with options traded by retail investors, employer stock options are a form of compensation used commonly by both start-up firms and well-established public corporations. Essentially, an employer stock option is a contract between employer and employee that grants the employee the right to purchase a stated number of company shares at […]
Highlights Adding to its 18.4% gain in 2020, the S&P 500 returned 6.2% in the first quarter. Just like the fourth quarter, value stocks outperformed growth stocks, in this case by 8.7%. The broadest measure of the fixed income markets lost 3.4% as interest rates rose in the quarter. Real GDP grew at an annual […]
The stock market is overvalued. You may find a few dissenting opinions out there, but statistics do not lie. The CAPE ratio (a measure of a company’s earnings adjusted for typical market cycles in relation to its share price and trusted measure of S&P 500 valuation) is currently1 35.08. In simpler terms, this means that […]
In a world where discussions of complex issues are constricted to 2-minute segments on cable media and 280 characters on Twitter, thoughtful and long-form communication has been cheapened or neglected in our daily life. You’ve undoubtedly heard of the studies showing that the human attention span continues to shrink (8 seconds for the “average human” […]
Whether for our own entertainment, our children’s, or our grandchildren’s, I believe it’s safe to assume we’ve all seen Shrek by now. As it turns out, the core concept of Shrek’s famous onion analogy (below for your reference/enjoyment) can be extended into the world of investing rather directly. Shrek: For your information, there’s a lot […]
I’ve never been divorced. In fact, I’ve not been married, but I have seen and experienced the emotional toll that a divorce can take on everyone involved. It is a paradigm-shifting life event, and many are often left overwhelmed and wondering: “Where do I go from here?” There is no easy answer. As a financial […]
We now live in a world where you can do anything online; have your new car delivered to your house, go to elementary school, even buy a tiger. While I would argue that most of these activities are better done in-person (or not at all), this age of information and accessibility comes with an array […]
“The Great Wealth Transfer” is the phrase coined to represent the impending shift of assets from the Baby Boomer generation to their descendants. The scale of this shift figures to be truly “Great”. Per 2019 data, it is expected that $68 Trillion will be passed from one generation to the next over the next 25 […]
Highlights The S&P 500 returned 12.1% for the quarter and 18.4% for all of 2020. Value stocks outperformed growth stocks in the quarter but trailed by 32% for the year. The 2020 gain in the S&P 500 was driven by a small number of large growth stocks. The fixed income markets returned 0.7% for the […]
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