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Part 1: The Field of Play

Cliff Asness, Wall Street sharks and market inefficiency

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 8, 2024September 9, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Markets now exhibit far more casino-like behavior than they did when I was young. The casino now resides in many homes and daily tempts the occupants.

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Secure your future with common stocks

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 4, 2024August 6, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Businesses retain earnings, with these going on to generate still more earnings–and dividends, too.

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Putting a world of turmoil in perspective

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 7, 2024June 8, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Today’s investor cannot tell from this record what percentage gain in earnings, dividends and prices he may expect in the next ten years, but it does supply all the encouragement he needs for a consistent policy on common-stock investment.

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Why stocks outperform all other asset classes

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 21, 2024April 21, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

A major reason is that businesses retain earnings, with these going on to generate still more earnings–and dividends, too

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Why an all-stock approach to investing makes good sense

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 24, 2024March 24, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Leaving moderate risk in the dust

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I differ with Cliff Asness about Risk Adjusted Returns

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 3, 2024March 4, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Once you own shares in a company, the investment risk you face is a risk that undermines the value of what you own

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What to make of recent market run up?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on December 17, 2023December 17, 2023
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Rising prices are a narcotic that affect the reasoning power up and down the line

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The Joy of ‘higher for ever’ interest rates

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 29, 2023October 29, 2023
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

The combination of a Treasury Note Real Yield of roughly 2% today and Inflation Expectations of roughly 2% is the best and most benign it has been since the 1970’s when inflation caught fire.

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Investors can get scammed on Wall Street

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 15, 2023October 16, 2023
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

One of his investment funds had the name Consolidated Artists Investment Fund. Get the joke? Con Artist Investment Fund.

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The market can be beaten

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 23, 2023February 4, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection than he devoted to the selection of a medium-price automobile

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