Making Space for Seasonal Reflection
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- The importance of making space for reflection
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- Questions to ask yourself about your artistic practice
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Stories of historically atypical interest rate hikes, and multiple bank failures, concerned many advisors in the early days of 2023. Join us for the second (and final) part of our discussion with Casey Dylan, CIMA®, Consultant, and the host of Unfiltered Finance, Tom Romano, Head of Strategic Relationships, as we discuss some of the more prominent news events, and their effects, during Q1 of this year.
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Let's let's
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shift a little bit to some of the headlines that we saw because there was
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there's quite a bit. It felt like it was a very long quarter. Yeah, and you
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know as we did see some positive results, but can we
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talk a little bit about just in general some of the headlines that we saw and
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then specifically I want to take a dive into inflation
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and then the banks because that was
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a really big headline. We got a lot of a lot of calls regarding that look
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there there were
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Striking headlines around things like
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shocks to sort of economic surprises on
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job numbers to what was going on with the FED
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to Banks not just near the United States but
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internationally and yet what you see is kind
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of, you know markets do what they do in in any given day. They respond
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to that but they are quick to incorporate the news
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and get back to pricing on other kinds of things. And
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so I would say as a micro dosage of
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what the ride is for investors. It's
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this it's if you can sort of
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take in stride that there are going to be lots of headlines and
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that there may be short-term Market reactions headlines over the
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longer term that kind of gets filtered out on
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the upside and downside right and what you get back
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to is. Hey one of my paying for right I'm paying for some kind
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of future earnings or I'm lending with some expectation that
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I'm going to get paid and income stream based on that and that tends
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to drown out the short term noise and now
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you're back to factors of how much did I pay did I
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get my earnings did I not is
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We're upside to that right and markets are kind of a weighing machine
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in that sense. Right? They're weighing those earnings. They're weighing those
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cash flows in the future. Right? So I would say
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lots of lots of news lots of scurrying
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around the news.
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You know at the end of the day we're sort of where we started one
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of the headlines and one of the things that we've been getting a lot
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of questions about I'm talking about is is inflation. I know we've spent some time
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already today talking about that. We did
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see US inflation ease a little bit but there
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might be some pressures coming up. So if you don't mind commenting on that, that
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would be great. Yeah, you bet. I think it's helpful to kind of
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take a step back and look at
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With the onset of the pandemic right everything kind
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of shut down and then when we went to reopen things back up
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factories didn't necessarily open up, especially in
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places like China right for some time. Right and the the
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supply chain was suddenly
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constrained and so we
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had a hard time getting Goods, right but there was a lot
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of demand because we were at home, you know person stuff and so
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as you have demand shoot up but supplies constrained
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price shoots up, right? That's just sort of Economics 101
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and we saw that and at the time, you know, the Fed was quick
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to say, hey, look we think this is transitory think eventually things
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settle down we get manufacturing back online. We work
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out the bugaboos associated with the supply chain
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and those the price pressure doesn't inflationary pressure should come back
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down over time and in large respect
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this seems to have proven that out right?
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I think what really got the fed's
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attention and started them down the path.
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the fact that well while goods were
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sort of starting to come back down. It was
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inflation associated with services that was going up. And
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in fact, what we've seen is good coming down
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the the overall inflation of
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the CPI number or that PC number coming down from its
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highs last summer, but while that's been happening underneath
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Inflation associated with Services has continued to
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go up.
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And so even if we're at a point now where the latest inflationary readings
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are half of what they were.
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Just a year ago this time.
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Services inflation is up and continuing to go the wrong direction. Right? And
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so the the FED has said hey, look
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first of all, we don't look at kind of the overall CPI number. We don't
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that's not how we measure it. We're looking at these underlying statuents and
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they prefer the the pce as
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opposed to CPI, but they're all just kind of ways of measuring, you know
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inflation in the economy. And so
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one of the ways that we've looked at
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this for a very long time is core CPI, right? We're stripping out the
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volatility of energy and food because those tend to move around so much and then
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you know, we've been introduced to this concept that not
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only is it core CPI, but it's core Goods CPI and
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course Services CPI. And so the FED now is very focused
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on core Services looking at Services minus
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services for energy and food and what
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we see are again our sort of troubling Trends
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around services and housing
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in terms of the impact that that
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has now pushing.
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Up or holding up those inflation numbers and if they
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continue on the wrong direction, that's what the fed's concern about and the
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the whammy that potentially comes
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from if Services costs go
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up at some point that starts to impact Goods costs as
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well. Right? And so if you look at this where the the white
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bars are coming down, right the the concern
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is that Services cost the cost of producing goods
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and delivering them right is going to impact the the cost
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that gets passed through and goods start to come back up and there's sort
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of a double double impact of inflation if
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you will and that's what I think the FED is incredibly concerned about
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and and why they say look we're gonna ratchet rates up
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and we're gonna keep them up there long enough until we're convinced that we've we've
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stamped this out and brought it back down to a level that's
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livable because the last thing you want to do is take your foot off the pedal.
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And then suddenly have a Resurgence of these
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inflation Air Forces which that we've saw
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in the 70s, right if you think about what we've we've
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seen this show before the early 70s the FED raising
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rates taking their their foot off the brake, I guess and then
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Resurgence of inflation in the late 70s stagflationary
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environment and it took the volcker FED in the 80s
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taken rates to places. We'd never seen until recently right to
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to stamp that out. And so I think the FED
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is taking a lesson from history and said we don't want to repeat those mistakes.
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We're gonna stay on this until we're sure right absolutely and
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speaking of the fed and it says been a very fast pace
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in terms of Ray hikes. Yeah
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historically exactly exactly so
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they they have meant business and I
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think Market participants repeatedly made
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the mistake of not taking
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the FED at its word.
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Right and and equities markets have
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definitely gotten well ahead of the FED particularly at
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the end of last year and maybe potentially the beginning of this year bond markets
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now are pricing that the FED
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will pull back and yet the FED is saying no. No, we're we're
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gonna raise rates and we're gonna keep them there longer and that's
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you know, we have no expectation that we would
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pull back from that anytime this year. Right? So the market
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participants are our forward looking forward pricing, but
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they seem to not be taking the FED at its word. I think that's pulled
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back a little bit in February and March we started to
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see Market participants kind of get their arms around.
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Actually be coming and we see you know
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investors like hedge funds really sort of looking at volatility
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Bets with the expectation that hey this
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may get a little more turbulent before it gets better. Right? So
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there's a lot of sort of now Market positioning
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for the fed me
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actually do this and we may see an economic pullback,
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but that may not necessarily mean the FED response to
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it. Right? I think again as we look forward the
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the way that I would think about this as an investor as a the
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stock market is not the economy, right? The
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markets are definitely driven by
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interest rates and fed movement
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and yet
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Much like headlines the markets take that
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news and stride it gets built into prices and there
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may be short-term volatility associated with this but if you look out over
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time, you know, what what do we see going back to
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you know, as long as we have records 1926 and Beyond
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right Imperial heads when interest rates
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go up interest rates go down inflationary environments disinflationary environments
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recessionary environments across all of those things markets
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tend to produce a return
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of you know, seven to ten percent average annual
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you don't get that every year but you get on average over time and it's
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paying you for those cash flows so much like,
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you know, the all the comments that we've had prior to
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this.
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As investors, it's important to sort of take in its Stride
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Right put some blinders on there may be volatility associated with
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this ride. You will get wet on this ride. Right but we
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promise you'll come out in the other side, right and when you do,
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you know, the markets will get back to doing what they
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do, which is you know, paying you for putting Capital to work
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in there. So so that I would say again we watch these
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things. We we sort of especially working
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in the industry. It's a incumbent upon
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us to have some product prognostication about where this could
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be headed at the end of the day what we think matters very little it's
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what actually happens and we build portfolios to
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be as robust as we can because Anything Could Happen. Yeah, that's that's fantastic.
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And that's a really good way of putting it. We don't know what's
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happening, but we're
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We're invested in a way to endure what's to come? Right? Exactly. So
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one of the headlines that we we spent
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a lot of time talking to advisors and investors alike is the
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the notion of the banks and we saw from Silicon Valley
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and First Republic and a few others.
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I think it's a it's a risk reward story. But I also think
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this is the diversification story there. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah. Well, yes,
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I think
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the the situation with the banks
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has a lot to do with other stuff, right? Yes, the
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the banks were quick to come out and say well this
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is a consequence of how rapidly the FED is
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raised interest rates. And this is potentially impaired the
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asset base of these Banks and there's no question right over the
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course of 2022. You saw the asset base
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drop significantly across banks in
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general because right so, you know first principles,
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what is a bank do they take money in when they
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take that money in as a deposit? It's a liability to them. Right?
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So they take that liability and they got to go match it up
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with an asset and they do that either by making loans and if
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they can't make enough loans, then they got to go buy bonds treasuries.
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For instance, right? Yes. That's the old against the
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liabilities. So if you if you've got a bank that
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has a bunch of bonds that they're holding as an asset
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and the value of those bonds dramatically drop. They've lost
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a lot of money against the liabilities that
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are still where they are, right and
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So that's that's the the challenge for
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the financial.
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sector and it no surprise the financial sector
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was sort of the worst performing sector for the first quarter in large
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part because of these Dynamics
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It was a part of what happened at svb. It was a catalyst
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for the bank run that followed but the bank
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run followed because of the unique dynamics of
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svb, correct? Right and the the failure
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of silvergate was
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function of crypto and had as
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much to do with FTX the failure of FTX, which
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was a Ponzi scheme, right? So you have
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a lot of kind of very unique situations Signature Bank,
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very crypto focused right First Republic the
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very very heavily on
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the asset side writing interest only mortgages
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right in to a degree that other
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Banks didn't have some unique characteristics of these Banks which cause
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them to be sort of the canary in the coal mine if you will right
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and Credit Suisse just
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Has struggled for years, right? And this was
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just the nail in the coffin form. The concern is are they
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the canary in the coal mine or are they just being punished because
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the malfeasance and poor management?
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And I think the answer is a bit of both, right? So the the
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fed and other institutions got
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they're deposits are safe, even if the value of the bond the assets
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that these banks are holding have dropped down. We the the government
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are going to step in and and backstop not just
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your 250,000 but everything right that was
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the strong message that they sent and that sort of seem to
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work, right it calm markets. Thanks for still being sort of reviewed and
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other shoes to drop in time. Right? So you'll continue
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to watch it. I think as in as a person
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who has money at a bank, right am I rushing to pull my money
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we're we're gonna survive this right now.
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a potential issue down the down the pike, right? If
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specifically to the treasury market. That would
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be a complete roll reversal of where we've been right? That's that's
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taking the quantitative tightening off the table and now we're back to quantities, right
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so so could things come down the bike that
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would cause a, you know, real dislocation to
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banking to markets sure it could happen
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again. Who knows right? Everybody's got a crystal
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we'll survive.
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what are the risks and what are the rewards and how much am I
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willing to pay for those rewards? And am I underestimating those
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risks? Right? So everything is sort of a function of those things
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tech stocks is a risk, right? There's there's certainly reward
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there's upside there. We're seeing it in terms of markets, but I think there's risk
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right in fixed income. There's potential
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like financials. There's risks
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right associated with that. I think the key
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takeaway for that for anybody looking at
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one geography not just inequities not just in fixed income
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across factors as much as you
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can broadly diversify the more robust your portfolio is to
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stand up to any of those unique risks.
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as well as they are because they drive
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markets you want to be there. You want to participate in it.
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holding names that people are familiar
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with and talk about right if you think about the
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fomo experience that people have
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missing if you're missing out, right? Yeah, my next
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door neighbor. He's he's got Google and apple and they're tear on
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the cover off the ball. Never mind. What happened last year right now, I gotta you
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know, keep up with the Joneses on that water cooler. Alpha
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is what I call that. Yeah water cooler Alpha and I would just
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say hey look at the end of the day. We're people right if we
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were autonomous, you know Vulcans. This would just be
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economics and math and we can figure it all out reality is
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we're people and you got to build a portfolio you can live with right as
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our as our good friend Phil Henry says, you
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got to build a portfolio you can live with and then live with it, right? I think
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that's absolutely true. And so you have to take into account.
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why I think momentum is such a
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powerful factor to build into your portfolios
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because momentum picks up
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these like when tech stocks going to run you end up
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owning things like Apple and Google and because they
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are demonstrating positive momentum, right? So you you're picking
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up some of that you're participating in that upside and I
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think as a as an investor, that's that would probably be enough for
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me, right? It's a modicum of the things that I everybody else
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is holding that that's working but it's also stuff that's not working
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because eventually that circles around and that becomes the thing
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that's worth. I don't have to try and time it. I'm just holding it and I'm
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waiting keeping my powder dry in that area so that when it
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does I benefit that that's how I would think about it look again
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fueled by stuff. Sometimes you don't understand and and
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tech stock Dynamic is is part
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fairy dust, right and you know,
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we watched it run for a decade and drive markets, you know
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for you know, double digit returns for years because
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that happen again, of course, it could right. I'm not
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gonna tell you again. I am cautious about the
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dynamic being set up looking very similar to
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the dynamic that we saw at you know, 2019 2020.
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store keeps popping up. I started my career in the late 90s and that was the
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whole story and then I saw a lot of portfolios.
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to technology and they having a
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balanced portfolio Diversified across multiple asset classes regions geographies.
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end of the day. So yeah, I think I go back to the the E-Trade
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baby, right if you remember the E-Trade baby so easy
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baby. Yeah that was born right on the text actually and then
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they they put the baby away for a while baby's back right now. I was
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a little bit older now, he's out of the wedding, you know hanging out
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with this guys and gals but to
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me that a Hallmark of a caution, right because
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the reality is it's it's easy but
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hard right it's not you know, it's not
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difficult to say. Hey look broadly based diversification sit still it's
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incredibly difficult to do. Yeah, right and that's where
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the real benefit of working with financial professionals comes in because everybody
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thinks they can do it everybody. They're gonna be Spock
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and devoid of emotion, but then the moment of truth comes
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The market drops 40% and you're looking at like am I gonna
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be able to retire? Right and the fear grips hold and it's
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2 am and you're thinking what do I do? Right. That's
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when you need to have that dispassionate third party
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to pick up the phone and say I want to sell everything. They whoa. Let's
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revisit right like is anything changed? Oh the
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market drop 40% right has anything in your life changed right?
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Maybe that's not the best course of action. Let's take a beat having that
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dispassionate a third party to keep you from blowing yourself up
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at that exact moment is invaluable. Yeah
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and making sure you have the right mix between stocks bonds
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and maybe even Alternatives depending on the investor and if someone
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can't sleep at night, it's not necessarily that they should take action,
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but they might be in the wrong asset allocation for
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their
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The risk, you know their ability to accept right? Yeah,
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it could be that often. What I've
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experienced is when it's that it's because the client wanted
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more Tech right in their portfolios or more of what's
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working, right? And then when that's no longer working, they
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can't sleep at night, but cautionary Tale the other
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piece of that is we're surrounded by the news 24/7
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right? It's just and it's always the whatever
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bleeds leads right? And so it's this constant
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drum beat of kind of negative stuff. And I think that investors
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need a voice.
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That that they trust to say. Hey, yeah. No I
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saw that too. Yes, that bank went out of business. Here's
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why we shouldn't Panic here, right? Yep. We
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see all that. Here's why we're gonna stay the course. Here's why we're not gonna Panic. Here's
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what let's you know, our long-term goals are and we're in good
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shape to hit those. I think that sort of calming reassurance
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helps people get back to sleeping at night. Yeah. No,
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I agree Casey as always. It's a pleasure talking to you.
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The sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank in March jostled investors' confidence in the market. But, the overall performance of various tech stocks in Q1, such as Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Salesforce, AMD, and Broadcom, served to revive optimism for the stock market's near future. Join Casey Dylan, CIMA®, Consultant, and our host Tom Romano, Head of Strategic Relationships and Product Development, in this first half of of our Q1 recap, as we discuss both market, and factor performance, in the first few months of 2023.
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Good afternoon,
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everyone. This is Tom Romano head of strategic relationships at
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symmetry partners and joined with me. Today is Casey Dillon
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a long time friend of symmetry and our
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internal communication strategist. Thank you Casey for
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joining us today. Tom is excellent to be here with you live in
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person. Yeah, fantastic. Fantastic So today, we're gonna go
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through our q1 2023 quarter in
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perspective. It's been quite the
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interesting quarter to say the least we've had
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some volatile markets. Although
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I'll be at some positive results. We've seen things
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like banking collapses in the headlines. There's still of
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course the concerns about inflation. And so
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Casey thank you for joining us to give us some perspective
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of what's going on in the market. So in a
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nutshell what happened in q1 of 2023, yeah
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last year was a brutal year across a number of metrics, but
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the fourth quarter we started to see some respite
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the Fed was done raising interest rates, maybe
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that the inflationary pressures that
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a forward-looking forward pricing mechanism. And so
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a replay of a lot of those Dynamics coming into
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going to stop rate and Market participants started to
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look forward and price as if the not only
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reading the tea leaves assumed the
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economy would be by mid-year.
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large cab growth and Tech names and
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the mean in terms of those names really
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leading the charge in January. Those are
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the names that were most beaten up in 2022. Those are the
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names that snap back fastest in the
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first quarter. And so January where we
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a Resurgence just in the month of January the SP was up
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like eight percent and the NASDAQ double that right just on the
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strength of kind of those large cap Tech names and of course what happened
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served as a really Stark reminder that we're
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had said. Okay. Well now the FED is gonna have to wind this down all
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to get more aggressive in in tackling that and
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hearings with the the chairman
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of the fed and based on his
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comments Futures skyrocketed for an expectation
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the Fed was gonna raise 50 basis points, and
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sort of rescue. I don't know rescues the
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right term but step in aggressively and calm markets
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of a contagion effect and a larger Bank Run taking place.
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sort of wild trip of markets shooting
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headlines and yet at the end of the quarter you finished up
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pretty again pretty solidly across
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us markets International Development markets emerging
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markets in fixed income inequities, right?
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quarter from a return perspective despite all of that. Yeah sure.
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It was like it's a very interesting quarter.
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these tech companies that didn't have a great year last year, but you're
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seeing asset classes such as the energy
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sector right who had a great year last year is to
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use your your term of aversion to the mean right? They had
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a tough time in the first quarter, right? Yeah. Yeah and and frankly
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prices have been coming down in oil and gas pretty
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do think and likely there's
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more conversation to be had
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around this but the concern that I have or
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how markets performed in the first quarter is that
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it was so dominated by a
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handful of names, right? We we've seen
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this Dynamic before where we're
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names sort of dominate performance
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of the market and we and we saw that again in
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the first quarter right? You think about Facebook alphabet
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Apple Google Netflix, right?
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really been challenged in 2022 had a
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nice Resurgence across the first quarter, but when
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you dig deeper into the performance particularly here domestically what
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the fact that these top handful of names represent twenty
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plus percent of the overall
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market, right? So think S&P 500 has got ostensibly 500
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names in it the top 10 names
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least 80% of that return right the
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top top five names half of it, right? So so
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these names.
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the other names in those indices
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and it lit. It's the rising tide lifting
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all boats, but the concern that you
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have with that and we saw that in 2022 when the
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air goes out of the balloon to a degree. Well that
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can be a double-edged sword. Right if those names start
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to pull back in valuations, you
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could see that turn around and become an anchor pulling
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markets down, right and that can happen very quickly just based
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on the fact that it's so concentrated in a
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handful of names that are all sort of in the
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same kind of economic Waters right in terms of kind of
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this large growth Tech, you know richly valued.
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had these conversations over the years even going back before 2022
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coming out of the pandemic
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and those tech stocks. They were the story they were leading
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the charge and what I'm hearing you say, is that sort
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of the casing q1, but that double-ed
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word is just going back 2022 would
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be an example of if you're not well Diversified
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that could be a painful experience it can and I'm
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right? So if you think about if in fact
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the run-up invaluations in this sort of handful of
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techniques is analogous to what we saw in
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tech Bubble Burst it took a decade the Lost
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decade right of just you know, subpar returns
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for the valuations to get
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back to a place where markets could then start
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to take off again. And so the concern that
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that one might have is valuations are
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still Rich, right? Even after 2022 on
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a Price to Book basis very
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expensive on a price to
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forward earnings basis. It's expensive and
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as if these are our Bargains to
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be had in a Marketplace that that's discounting
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them. They are still incredibly expensive. And so
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anything that goes wrong right if the
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of positive numbers, but
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growth. Right? So all you need is for for Market
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participants to to a once again sour on the
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prospects of these names and you're right back to it's
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too too rich like I'm paying
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too much today for for earnings in
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the future that may or may not materialize right? And so
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I've got to pay less and so the price has to come down. Yeah, right. And
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again, I'm not suggesting that we have a lost decade
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in front of us, but this potentially room to run
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if markets turn and I think that's the the concern that
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prepare them for. Hey, we'll take what we get. Right? We're happy
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to get those returns, but
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look or fourth ending. There's a lot of game left and we're
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just gonna buckle up and be ready for it. Yeah, and what is
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interesting what this quarter and you detect upon that I'd love to get your thoughts developed International
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to having a very good quarter.
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names and in the past when they had their run prior to 2022, it
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was a pretty much us dominated run up.
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of the the companies that are there that have
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position. Then they
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were for instance going into the global financial crisis, right and they
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weren't super expensive. Right?
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priced compared to
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the they don't have to have that much right
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surprise upside.
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relatively decent performs.
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the effects of the the Russian Ukraine
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conflict and looking at the impact that
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for instance the the price of gas price
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of oil I had in places like Germany and the fact
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that they sort of got through that not unscathed but
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you know, the the avoided the apocalypse
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right the gasoline apocalypse over the course of the
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winter right that it was relatively mild. So
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of said rewarded International developed
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businesses with valuations that
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seemed a little more reasonable than the
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valuations in the US. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense and thank you
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for that. Yeah, and and I would call I would suggest that
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different position right again a little more financially
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robust in terms of the underpinnings.
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are risk off and and sort of beating down
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in price. I think anytime you have a lot of volatility people are
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hesitant to take a bunch of risk. So Emerging Markets
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could be a little more volatile as you would expect but
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as well over time relative to the US let's let's
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look at the other side of the coin and talk a
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little bit about bonds because that's been quite the Hot Topic lately. We've been
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getting a lot of inquiries from advisors and investors alike
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about the fixed income market. So give us
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a little perspective of what's happening in.
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was a historically bad year
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for Boston certainly, right as as fed as
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the FED raised interest rates are not just the FED but central banks
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as much but globally central banks at the
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impact of course of challenging the yield right
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and as we know yield in price or are sort of inverse Lee
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related and so as yield was pushed up by raising
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rates price came down and and it had a pretty dramatic
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2022 pretty much a very bad. No good year for
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a lot of those same sort of macro dynamics that
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true to fix income as well the expectation the bond
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market pricing that they think the FED will essentially
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had the impact of markets rallying
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to a degree and then of course when there
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on the the yield
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right? So at at some points we saw for instance
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the the 10 year get up over four and we
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saw a pullback as yields come down then of course prices go
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up. And so you saw a nice robust kind of response over
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the first quarter of prices coming up for bonds that had
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the impact and that was true for treasuries and corporates
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and international bonds, right? So across the
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Spectrum you had sort of a nice performance.
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For bonds for the first quarter. And again, it's unusual
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for fixed income and Equity to look and
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behave very similarly. That was one of
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the things that was so unusual about 2022, but there's still
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sort of Behaving the same way based on the same Outlook
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that at some point interest rates stop going up
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or stop getting ratcheted up by central banks.
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And so that Dynamic is is kind of
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floating all the boats to this degree and so
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fixed income has had a robust first quarter.
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Remains to be seen how the rest of the year plays
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out and and you know, frankly we
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continued to see the a deep
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inversion in the yield curve, especially at the
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very shortest end of the O curve relative to the
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10 year. And as you know that has historically sort
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of been a warning sign of
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potential economic stress recessions right
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as an indicator and it has remained it
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inverted for some time now
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and that inversion has only gotten deeper on the shortest end. So,
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you know again you would want to continue
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to watch that and be cognizant of it. I think the takeaway
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from this is much like with equities. It's best
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to be sort of broad based Diversified. You never
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know what part of the Yoke curve is gonna move relative to this and
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it's good to have exposure
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not just us treasuries, but
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the corporates and not just us bonds, but the international
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bonds that there are benefits built into the pricing of all
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And as we start to see a decoupling of Central
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Bank activity, yes, they've been
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acting pretty much in concert, but at some point central banks
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start to peel off right and they get back to focusing on
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the handling kind of
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their domestic concerns. And as they do that it will
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have varying diversification impacts for bonds
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around the globe the way stocks and bonds behaves
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in 2022 with similar and then into this quarter. We're
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seeing some decent returns globally across those two
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macro asset classes. We're seeing
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some of a mixed bag that last Factor investors
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from a factor perspective, right? But let's
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shift a little bit and talk about factors for a moment.
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We're a factor investors are listeners The Avengers that
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we work with our have clients invested in
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these Factor portfolios. What did we see from a factor standpoint
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in the first quarter of 2023 if
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you think about the factor of value, it's just the the
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cheaper stocks outperform the more expensive stocks over time and as
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you know,
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We had a long run where that wasn't true. Right we're
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growth stocks were just outperforming value to the
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point that everybody was sort of Naval gazing wondering his value
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dead. Does this even make sense anymore? And and what
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we sort of looking at it determined was
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no actually values kind of in line with what it's always done. It's
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growth. That's so unusual. Yeah, right and that we're
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back to the story about the large tech stocks and get over evaluation. Right?
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And so last year was a great year for Value, right? Even
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though it was down right value outperform growth
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by a good 20% Oh, yeah, absolutely and it
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was sort of that Snapback to recognition of
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hey one of my paying for right and and these things
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have gotten incredibly overvalued on the
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growth side.
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And so it shouldn't come as a surprise then if there's a reversal of
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that Dynamic that value might underperform growth
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over the first quarter. And of course, that's what we observed right
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that value underperformed growth. It was
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those large kind of growthy names that took off and and so that
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that factor shows up and demonstrates
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that thighs right. So again kind of
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the academic research that smaller cap
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names tend to outperform larger cab
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names over time rolling into the first quarter large
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caps outperform small caps, right again being led
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by that large growthy and so small caps
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tended to underperform in general. What's interesting
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is across factor is
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one of the reasons you want to hold small caps isn't necessarily the size
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Factor premium associated with that because
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that's come under some scrutiny of
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Lee as academics kind of look at that. Say what
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do we actually getting here?
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But what really expresses itself
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in small camp names or all the other factors, right? So
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the reason you'd want to hold a small cap is not just
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because you get a benefit versus large caps, but because you get
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a really strong value signal a really strong momentum really
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strong quality, right all of these things. And so if we
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look at small caps the performance of small caps for
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the first quarter, you actually got to really strong quality signal
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in small caps. So again a reason
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why you want to have a multiple exposures for your
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factors not just pick any one of these right so small
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caps under form large caps, but quality did really well inside
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small camps that makes up the next category is
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momentum. And what's interesting about markets that are sort of
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whipsawing one way or the other that momentum tends to
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have a tougher time in markets where the signal is really
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hard to pick up where there's a lot of whipsawing effect up and down on the
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other way momentum tends to kind of get whipped around with that.
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Eventually when markets start to pick
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up Trend whether that's down for a significant period of
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time like in 2022 momentum does well or up right
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for a significant period of time and so you
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would expect momentum to kind
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of settle down as markets kind of settle down
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and we see less whipsawing and more directionality. However, and
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I mentioned it earlier with small caps quality this idea
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that there may be
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a flight to Quality in times when the
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there's a lot of volatility. Well one of the
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reasons you see that is because higher quality earnings tend to
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hold up better in downturns. They have a premium
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associated with them and we saw that very clearly quality
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was one of the areas that outperformed the market
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over the first quarter and that was true not just in the
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US but internationally as well interestingly in
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Emerging Markets value quality
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and low volatility did quite
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well so value was still doing well in emerging.
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Markets again a reason why you'd want to diversify
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your Factor exposures not just in the US but
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internationally as well and minimum volatility was
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a contributor in us but lagged Market
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beta on the whole a broadly
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Diversified Factor exposure was I'd
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say depending on what your tilts are helpful on
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the downside when Market was volatile, but lagged
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Market beta to a degree for the
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first quarter where it outperformed in
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2022. So again factors are a
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long term investment. You wouldn't do it on based
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on one quarter, but we we watch the horse race, right? Yeah.
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Absolutely and I think a point that you
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you said that really resonated with me is the notion of how these factors work
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together right size and quality you mentioned
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and so having a diverse portfolio
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of integrated factors.
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maintaining that for the long term
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Should reward you over the long term. Yeah, and that's the
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expectation. There are lots of factors out
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there that have been identified in the academic literature when you
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selectively go out and pick a handful of
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those factors. The expectation is every single
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one of those is going to be a positive contributor to
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your portfolio over time, right you you
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wouldn't necessarily pick one that you thought. Well, it's gonna be a loser but we're gonna hold on
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to it, right you're picking all of these different factors of the
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expectation that each one of those is going to be a
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positive contributor over a period of time when you
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weave them together you sort of iron out
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the highs and lows of any one particular factor and
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you get that very nice steady stream of
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return into your
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portfolio. That's generated by those Factor exposures. Yeah.
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It's the old the old adage we're going for singles and doubles
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not home runs, right? Yeah. Yeah exactly. So let's
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talk a little bit about factors and fixed income and then
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we can take a look at some of the the factors overseas.
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As well, but I do want to spend some time on some of
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the headlines. So why don't we
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talk a little bit about us fixed income factors? Sure. So
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as you know, right fat factors are
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not an equity only thing. In fact, we see factors across
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all different kinds of assets fixed income Commodities
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housing real
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estate, right all these I the concept of value for
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instance and the concept of momentum right anything that has a price associated
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with it stores can demonstrate these sort of
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factors. And that's true. In fact fixed income the way we
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think about factors and fixed incomes specifically is is kind
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of interest rate risk, which is time, right? So think
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about what we talked about with the yield curve inversion
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and what was going on on the short end versus the
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long end what we've observed in the
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past. Let's call year was a really
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strong interest rate risk lack
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of benefit that you got for sort of being paid
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over time, right?
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And in theory, right you should get paid to hold
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over time because there's less certainty
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about what the future holds so you demand a
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premium to hold something over time to lend over time. And
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so when you have the short end
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of the curve come up that tends to impact that interest
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rate sets that risk that sensitivity because you're
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not getting paid over time. You're getting paid actually on the
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the shorter end potentially. So when you
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see a pullback of rates,
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right and price is going up you're seeing
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that benefit playing out through the first quarter as well credit risk
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is just the difference the buildup over
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the risk free rate treasuries to account
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for hey, you know a corporation has more risk than a government
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and I should be paid that difference. And so you're investing
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up and down the various yield curves that
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build up on that and in this case credit risk really as
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a factor wasn't a very solid contributor
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for the first quarter slightly positive.
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The the show really has been frankly for the
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past 18 months were interest rate risk is in
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terms of factor Premia in your portfolios.
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And then Market is is again just Market
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beta which is a buildup of all these different factors expressing themselves.
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So on the whole positive Bond performance
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being driven by changes to
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the the yield curve in many cases and some
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expectation that Bond markets are looking ahead
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and pricing for a cessation of rate raises
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by central banks. So so my expectation would
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be for for fixed income investors again much like
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Equity potentially more volatility here, right? The
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the rodeo is not over the big bull riding
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could yet be to come so
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You know stay patient the the benefit here is
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there's return associated with fixed income
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to a degree. We haven't seen in 15 years. And so
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let this play out. And again, these Factor
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exposures are the expectation is over time. These are
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going to be a additive to the returns that you
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get from the bond market you had mentioned this in some of your previous comments.
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Factors perform differently geographically too
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right like value in the US might give you a different return
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versus value and the international develop during the
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Emerging Markets Arenas. So I think there's diversification story
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there. Can you comment on that, please? Yeah. Well, yes, of
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course and and I sort of made a comment
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about as
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central banks become decoupled and start to operate a
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little more independently that it has an impact on the
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local economies in all of these different markets as
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an impact on their currencies. And so
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when you think about fixed income the benefit that you get from
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not only where you hold on
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the curve and and the amount of credit that you're willing but that
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you're going to diversify the various curves
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that you hold and the where you
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are on that across geographies and
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then take into account the impact that
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currencies might have right and so we know for equities
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the the volatility signature
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of equity is is so robust that
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you're you tend to be willing to hold the volatility of
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fluctuations and currency in in
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fixed income. It tends not to pay you to do
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that. And so I know for instance
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that here at Cemetery you folks hedge back
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to the dollar sure and that takes some of that volatility out,
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right? And again, I think that's a benefit
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for Factor investors because what you're
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Is less volatility associated with fluctuations currency and
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you're getting maybe stronger signal from these these
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different sources of return across
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different markets and they're all going to be hitting at
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different times. Once the sort of the global economy
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comes unpegged to what's going
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on fighting inflation. Yeah until I think it's a perfect diversification story
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and
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we have a saying here that the only free lunch and investing is diversification. And
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so we tout that investor should be embracing that Casey.
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Thank you so much for joining us that concludes part one.
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