September 27, 2022 From Bloomberg today: In the short term, BlackRock is underweight developed-market equities, and is favoring credit. Investors should “shun most stocks.” BlackRock Investment Institute strategists including Jean BoivinandWei Li wrote “We don’t see a ‘soft landing’. That means more volatility and pressure on risk assets.” Now that BlackRock has lost over 1.3
September 21, 2022 This otherwise well-written article by Ken Sweet, AP Business Writer, appears to show bankers speaking on behalf of consumers and independent investors. How dare they. Bank CEOs warn of ‘daunting’ challenges from inflation WASHINGTON (AP) — In what has become an annual ritual, the CEOs of the
September 6, 2022 Good Evening, Bill Today, Strive sent our first shareholder letter to Chevron. We call on Chevron to liberate itself from constraints imposed by its ESG-promoting “shareholders” and to focus exclusively on maximizing long run value for the company’s ultimate owners. Read the full letter here or below.
August 30, 2022 The regulatory compliance firm Vigilant Solutions kindly sent me this report summary, the subject of which offends me. SEC’s Drafted Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022 to 2026 On August 24th, the SEC released a draft of its strategic plan for fiscal years 2022 to 2026 with a focus on the
August 29, 2022 I am authoring a new book about the stock market. It will be published this year. It’s because capital markets have become downstream to the financial services industry culture, which is killing independent investment and making the bankers and their closest associates wealthier. Agents in financial services
June 10, 2022 Although we read about Financial Advisors all the time, my question is not as simple as simply referring to someone who is licensed as a Financial Advisor, like me for instance. Financial advice could be, say, should you restructure your debts? or should you afford to buy
June 8, 2022 This is a two-page excerpt of the 413 in the work-in-progress manuscript that was sent to my publisher. The book, which is as yet unnamed, is to be published at the end of August. Anybody who has been reading my blog over the years has read all
2022.01.29 I am a registered financial advisor who also writes a public blog at billcara.com, which I do for purposes of education and information. If anybody who invests wishes to participate in the Comments section using a nickname, they can do so if they are respectful of the education and
2022-01-27 Both points that are made today in the ETF Insider report at FinancialAdvisorIQ.com have been discussed by me repeatedly here in the blog and coincidentally in my upcoming book “120 Lessons in Capital Markets”. Welcome to this week’s ETF Insider. We’re looking at two tools in advisors’ ETF portfolio
January 18, 2022 Today at a client’s request, I gave a lot of thought to his negative opinion of crypto and so I wrote a bit about it earlier today in the blog. But, with market prices down at a time that I see investing in crypto is an opportunity,
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