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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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...
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The Morning Jerry Investor
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One of my favorite Seinfeld standup routines compared “Morning Jerry” or “Nighttime Jerry.” Well-rested Morning Jerry was rational and responsible; he made decisions that benefitted himself in the...
One Portfolio or Two?
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Why We Believe SMID Cap Core Can Beat Separate Small & Mid Allocations Many investors instinctively split their equity sleeve into a “small-cap fund” and a “mid-cap fund,” assuming that...
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Popping Tags
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At dinner the other night, my youngest daughter asked what I actually do all day in my office. I work from home pretty often, so from her perspective, I just disappear behind a closed door for hours...
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Hug an Economist
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Connor and I both majored in economics. We spent four years steeped in macro theory, poring over models of trade, labor, and monetary policy. Since then, we’ve found… let’s say, limited use for most...
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Learning to Love Binary Outcomes
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Around age 40, my annual checkup started including additional tests. These tests are meant to keep me healthy, but they also have the ancillary effect of stressing me out while I await the results....
The Last 10%
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9/10 is an exceptional mark in almost all applications. If a restaurant has a 9/10 on Yelp or Foursquare (yes, Foursquare is still an excellent restaurant rating app), it means the restaurant is...
4 Years of Inflation Analysis
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Given Trump’s upcoming policy guidance, there are reasons to believe that inflation could soon be on the rise. This begs the question, “Are we in a temporary inflation lull? To answer that, let’s...
Goldman’s Bearish Prediction
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For years, Warren Buffett’s advice has been pretty clear — for most investors, the S&P 500 is the safest bet. “Just buy the index,” he’s famously said. And for the past decade, he’s been pretty right...
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What is Active Management in Fixed Income?
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We believe that a strategic, actively managed approach to fixed income investing often outperforms the alternative. You might be familiar with active management when it comes to equities, but what...
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CDI's Active Management Philosophy
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Much as truly active equity investing can result in greater returns for investors (even net of fees), so too can active management of fixed income securities. We’re big believers in the power of...
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How active is your fund manager, really?
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In the 1980s, very few equity fund managers adhered to an indexing strategy. Fund managers were actively picking stocks to generate alpha for their clients. But over the course of the 1990s and...