It isn’t as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.
The active manager cannot control his own destiny in times of high market correlation, but when correlation is a normal 26% - or lower - he can “hammer” the market. Correlation is the degree that different securities move together in tandem. The norm of 26% goes back close to a hundred years. Sudden increases in correlation are always...
Today it might be hard to grasp, but when I was 21 there were clients who hired me because I was “a kid.” They hoped I would become “a gunslinger.” Even in the 1960s, fear of the market still existed from the crash of 1929. To be called a Gunslinger was an accolade applied only to the best money managers. Of course, I wasn’t one of them...
As I walked through a Baltimore hotel lobby, I heard someone call my name. Startled, I turned toward the sound and saw a man coming toward me. As I saw him, I remembered meeting him six months earlier in California. His name was Bill Kling and he was the chief financial officer of The Cheesecake Factory. As we shook hands, he introduced...
In our attached Capital Markets Overview, we share with you some thoughts on the 1st quarter and our outlook for Q2 and beyond.
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