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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An Outsider's Guide to Financial Marketing
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I’m not a numbers person… but here I am — the Director of Marketing for City Different Investments. Before joining CDI, I had no experience in the financial sector.
Not All Carbon Offsets Are Created Equal
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Are offsets — a way of balancing out the carbon one emits — our best chance at addressing climate change? Or are they nothing more than indulgences that assuage guilt? The controversy surrounding...
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An ESG Debate
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Interest in ESG investing surged following the pandemic. While the term ESG (environmental, social, and governance) has been around since the early 2000s, something about the “Great Resignation” and...
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...
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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...
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The Problem With Mutual Fund Capital Gains, And What To Do About It
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2021 tax bills are due in just a few days, and we’re hearing some uncomfortable groans from mutual fund investors. Here’s why: A combination of strong market gains and high trading activity led to...
Is it time to get into the fixed income market?
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Since opening our doors at City Different Investments, it is finally time to say— segments of the fixed income market are starting to get interesting! The fixed income markets have endured a...