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The New Fed Mandate: Full Employment & Asset Bubbles?

As recently as the 1990s, investors were forced to guess what the Federal Reserve was going to do next based on the width of Alan Greenspan’s briefcase.1 Communication from the Fed is still relatively new, maybe two decades old. The 2008 crisis brought the Fed into the information age as Bernanke and company upped their…

Investment Policy for Institutional Investors

Charley Ellis once said, “Investment policy does not enjoy much popularity. Almost everyone agrees that it is a “good” thing, but almost no one does anything about it.” I’ve had conversations with a number of institutional investors over the past few months because a crisis is typically the time organizations either (a) realize they don’t…

Talk Your Book: How to Create Income in Your Portfolio

Today’s Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book is presented by the Covered Bridge Fund: We discuss: What are covered calls? Why it’s sot hard to find an investment strategy that sits between stocks and bonds Pros and cons of a covered call strategy The different types of options income strategies How to benchmark alternative strategies What…

Simple vs. Complex, 2019 Edition

Charley Ellis is one of my favorite communicators in the investment world. His career has intersected with a number of different investment organizations which gives him a unique perspective on how things typically work. His book Winning the Loser’s Game is an all-timer investment book and his approach to minimizing mistakes resonated with me immediately upon…

Peter Lynch: The Barry Sanders of Investing

One Up on Wall Street is one of the first 5 or 6 investing books I read early on in my career when I still knew nothing about how the markets operate. I enjoyed it mostly because Lynch’s affection for the markets is infectious. His love for the game of investing leaps off the pages…