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What Investors Need to Know About the Most Common Private Equity Fund Structures
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There’s a critical decision you have to make if you want (or already have) exposure to private equity as a part of your portfolio — does your chosen manager deploy capital through a fund structure...
A Looming Uranium Shortage?
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"Nuclear is wonderful as one of the sources of energy, one of the sources of sustainable energy.” —Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang The global nuclear renaissance is gaining steam. Our readers have seen our...
The Power of Long Term Investing
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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...
The Wisdom of Crowds
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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
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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?
Idiosyncratic Alpha — Not a Factor Bet
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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?
Lessons From A Helicopter Parent
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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Maintaining Balance In Your Equity Portfolio
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One of the things that makes City Different Investments, well, different is our principled investment approach. We are doing a series of articles looking at the three tenets of our equity investment...
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...
Meet Connor Browne & Rob MacDonald
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Meet Connor Browne and Rob MacDonald, co-portfolio managers of City Different Investments’ focused domestic equity strategies. After developing a friendship and strong mutual respect for each other...