In the midst of World War II, a woman told Winston Churchill that the best thing he had done was to give people courage. He replied, “I never gave them courage. I was able to focus theirs.” During highly stressful times such as...
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The end of a decade seemed to us like an opportune time to review our fundamental investment beliefs. While the last two years have seen the market focused on U.S. growth stocks regardless of the price, we still believe that diversifying our exposures...
I would forgive the reader of this for not knowing what Modern Monetary Theory (“MMT”) is or even why I would be writing about it. Theories about economies and how they do or should work are much more complex than the basic macroeconomics...
We are pleased to provide you with our Third Quarter Commentary on markets and the economy. This quarter, we decided to ask our investment analysts to give us their summaries of the issues most likely to make news and influence our decisions. I...
We spend a lot of time talking to our clients about diversification, downside protection, and the long-term value of reducing short-term volatility. Those concepts are important to us, part of our DNA as a firm and as investment professionals. But why? In simple terms, if...
Private equity is an illiquid, long-term asset class which should outperform public market benchmarks by approximately 300 basis points over time. There are a number of structural factors which enable outperformance of the asset class. Below we have outlined the basic tenets that contribute to outperformance, and...