The MercadoLibre Paradox
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Over the past five years, MercadoLibre has grown both revenue and profit dramatically — yet its stock price has gone nowhere. Could this be an opportunity?
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Connor Browne
Professional Roles: Thornburg Investment Management, Sun Mountain Capital Education: BA, Economics, Certificate in Finance, Princeton University Certification: Chartered Financial Analyst Current: Board Chair, Reading Quest; Past Board President, Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region
The MercadoLibre Paradox
What Investing Can Teach Us About March Madness
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We've officially entered my absolute favorite time of the sports calendar year. As millions of others around the country have done this past week, I sat down to fill out my bracket for the annual Van...
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Are Treasuries Still Safe?
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Since April, I've had a lot of conversations about whether Treasuries are still a viable safe haven investment. After “Liberation Day,” 10-year Treasuries sold off by ~50 basis points, creating a...
Performance Art is Killing Actual Performance
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I’ve worked in this industry for 25 years at this point. I’ve seen trends come and go, asset classes boom and bust, and countless firms try to differentiate themselves on everything from process to...
The Biggest Investment Firms Get This Totally Wrong
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I’ve been in this business for almost 25 years. And I’ve seen the same thing happen over and over again: firms get big, add layers, professionalize everything to death… and in the process, completely...
When Lower Beta Still Outperforms
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There’s always a case for owning small and mid-cap U.S. stocks… but right now, it’s hard to ignore just how compelling that case has become. Small and mid-cap U.S. stocks are currently trading at a...
The Dangers of Zero-Sum Thinking
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If you’ve ever seen the movie A Beautiful Mind (filmed on campus while I finished my degree in economics!), you’ll remember the pickup scene in the bar. John Nash (played by Russel Crowe) stumbles...
AI HYPErinflation
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When it comes to share price, nothing has been quite so good to companies these past couple of years as making waves in A.I. Much of the S&P 500’s gains over that period have been powered by a few...
Decrease Volatility by Embracing it
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In my last blog post, I talked about how “thinking like an endowment trustee” can provide a real advantage to both financial advisors as well as retail investors when thinking through your investing...
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Helping Nonprofits Turn Profits
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Among the things I’ve been lucky enough to do in my professional life in Santa Fe, NM, two stand out: I’ve enjoyed a successful career in finance and have been involved with several nonprofits...
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Risk Management
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Risk management often carries the reputation of being “command and control.” Is it possible for institutional-class risk management to exist in a culture of freedom and responsibility?
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Investment Holding Profile: FLEX Ltd.
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Investment Holding Profile: FLEX Ltd. With the Fed making headlines again, it's easy to get caught up in the extreme short-term market volatility. But it’s important to remember that when you buy a...
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Investment Holding Profile: FTI Consulting
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Investment Holding Profile: FTI Consulting (FCN) It’s easy to get caught up in the extreme headlines of short-term market volatility. But it’s important to remember that when you buy a stock, you...
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Investment Holding Profile: Carlisle Companies
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It’s easy to get caught up in the extreme headlines of short-term market volatility. But it’s important to remember that when you buy a stock, you don’t own a ticker, you own a piece of a business....
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Investment Holding Profile: Assured Guaranty
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In volatile times like these, it’s easy to get caught up in extreme headlines. You may feel yourself obsessing over the big day-to-day jumps in the market or your own investment portfolio. But trust...
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Market Timing: A Loser's Game
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How has the equity team at City Different reacted to the market downturn and all this talk of recession? The short answer - we haven't. We believe market timing is a loser's game. If you have a...
5 Lessons You Learned If You Started Investing in 2011
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Don’t have time for one more New Year’s top-10 list? How about just a top 5? Right now, everyone is making 2022 stock and bond market forecasts. But some are falling into a trap called “recency...