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 throughout the city and state. Sometimes, those two stories collide wherein I find myself serving on a nonprofit’s endowment committee. And while I love the...

The Big Three U.S. auto workers went on strike in September. Labor and management couldn’t come to an agreement about how to split the proceeds from producing automobiles. This is such a pivotal economic and political issue that the two leading presidential candidates visited Detroit within a day of each other. The struggle between auto labor and...

Like many people during the pandemic, I decided to pick up a new hobby. With basically everything shut down, and the outdoors being one of the only relatively safe spaces available to us, my quest led me to mountain biking. I love it — biking through the foothills surrounding Santa Fe is a blast… but it also involves some risk.

There’s been an interesting discrepancy between the stock market performances of U.S.-listed large vs. small-cap companies in 2023. The S&P 500, which comprises the largest 500 companies listed in the U.S., has gained 15% as of June 20th, while the Russell 2500, which includes much smaller companies, has only gained 6% in the same time period.

Long-term investment horizons are often talked about, but not always practiced. For most clients, investment goals are measured in years (or maybe even decades). But many investment professionals feel the need to prove their worth in quarterly increments (this can be for a host of varying reasons, but we see it all the time). At CDI, we feel that...

Our investment philosophy follows a fundamental belief — the stock market functions much like the classic jelly-bean-counting experiment. That might sound strange, but hear me out:

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?

With a large reversal in factor returns over the last two years, we’re hearing this question a lot: Can active management deliver outperformance that isn’t dependent on systematic factors?

Shrewd investors often start out with long-term financial plans designed to meet their future needs — things like saving for college, retirement, etc. But sticking with the long-term plan becomes harder after years like 2022, in which many stock indices declined 20-30% with bonds down as well. As Mike Tyson said, “Everybody has a plan until they...

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 stock, you don’t own a ticker, you own a piece of a business. To distract you from the market's crazy swings, we are profiling the businesses that make...