Weekend Reading – Vanguard’s Outlook For 2024 And Beyond
Weekend Reading is a collection of Investment Research and Lifestyle topics from all corners of the Web. We source the highest quality insights from Wall Street and Main Street that you may apply to your investment process. Unlike the rest of Bankeronwheels.com, this series is provided without additional guidance. As usual, everything is to be used at your own risk. Below is the type of content we shortlist:
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Beyond the Hype - Bitcoin's potential role in a portfolio (Bankeronwheels.com)
With a wave of U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETFs on the horizon, and a potential SEC approval, Bitcoin may take a place in some portfolios.
This article looks at the limited data – only a decade long – and tries to make sense of this asset from a portfolio perspective, if you decide to give it a go.
Vanguard's outlook for 2024 (Vanguard)
Vanguard has said for more than a year that a return to sound money was underway. In the meantime, the transition to a higher interest rate environment no doubt has challenged investors, who have endured historical losses in bonds and high volatility in stocks. They believe that this structural shift, which will endure beyond the next business cycle, is the single best economic and financial development in the last 20 years.
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UNDERSTAND FINANCIAL MARKETS
HOW TO INVEST
Active Investing
FACTOR investing
A quant winter’s tale (FT.com)
One of the best pieces about Factor Investing in a while.
Available for free on Financial Times.
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- Navigating the factor zoo (Excess Returns - 46 Min)
- Assessing Alternative Quality Metrics (Dimensional Funds)
- New study says factors are barely a factor in returns (Ria Intel)
- The Illusion of the Small-Cap Premium (Finominal, Paywall)
- Factor Investing & Investor Behavior (Sound Investing - 38 Min)
- Navigating the Factor Zoo with Matthias Hanauer (Excess Returns - 46 Min)
discretionary investing
The Difference Makers: Key Person Value (Aswath Damodaran - 42 min)
In small businesses, it is common to apply what is called a “key person” discount to appraised value. Aswath looks at the variety of people who can be key to an organization’s value (from founder/CEOs to celebrity spokesperson), before creating value and pricing frameworks for valuing/pricing their presence. He also looks at how businesses can manage key person risk, why it can vary across businesses and implications for employee compensation.
ALTERNATIVE ASSET CLASSES
Why Is Vanguard Pitching Margin Loans? (Morningstar)
A long-time Vanguard investor received an email encouraging him to consider opening a margin account. The email included a link to a 20-page paper that explains both the workings of a margin account and the dangers entailed. I am pleased to report that the document thoroughly reflects Vanguard’s tradition of communications: detailed, sober, somewhat dull, and complete.The author does, however, have three questions.
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WALL STREET
SUSTAINABLE investing
crypto
BAD BETS
ETFs
UCITS ETFs
NTSX in Europe - A deep dive (Italian Leather Sofa)
Return Stacked ETFs, are innovative financial products that have recently become available in Europe. These ETFs operate on the principle of “Return Stacking,” which involves layering one investment return on top of another to achieve more than $1.00 of exposure for each $1.00 invested. While you may find the concept intriguing and potentially more capital efficient, it’s crucial to understand that these are complex, leveraged products not suitable for the majority of investors.
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Robeco is stepping into the European ETF market with a focus on active funds. The Dutch asset manager, which has €181bn assets under management, is planning to launch its first UCITS ETFs in Q2 2024. [FT.com]
Xetra has seen the launch of 3 new fixed income ETFs by the German asset management group DWS. The ETFs provide ultra-short-duration exposure to bonds from issuers of Eurozone sovereigns. All the ETFs have a 0.07% fee. [ETFStrategy.com]
US ETFs
BlackRock is set to launch ten ETFs focused on Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS). Ranging in maturity from 2024 to 2033, these ETFs will seek to provide inflation protection to investors concerned with erosion of purchasing power. The new TIPS-defined maturity bond ETFs will carry an expense ratio of 0.1%. [ETF.com]
Wealth Management
Personal Finance
Early Retirement
A U.K.-based financial advisor discusses why people over 50 are often underserved by the financial-services industry, ways to ease into retirement, and what it means to be a ‘retirement rebel.’
FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
COST OF LIVING
OUR Community
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Personal Development
In this episode, Ryan outlines the Stoic strategies that you can use in your daily life to stop caring about what other people are thinking. Epictetus liked to joke that when someone unfairly criticizes you, feel grateful that they didn’t point out your real flaws. Trying to control other people’s opinions was like trying to control the weather—and public life guarantees public scrutiny.
Health & Wellness
CAREERS
TECH AND SCIENCE
An Introduction to AI for everyone (Andrej Karpathy - 1 hr)
This is a 1 hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models: the core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What they are, where they are headed, comparisons and analogies to present-day operating systems, and some of the security-related challenges of this new computing paradigm.
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9 Must Read Books - Visual Summary (Investment Books (Dhaval))
From Atomic Habits to Think Twice, explore the key lessons across 9 books through bite sized visual summaries
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