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Archives for May 2022

Is Your Financial Advisor Hiding the Truth About ESG?

May 13, 2022 By E.J. Smith

Is your financial planner, advisor, wealth manager, CPA, CFA, CFP, or whatever else they slap onto their business card on the same page as you? Are you all rowing in the same direction? Have you asked them about ESG, for example? Do they ask you? Because if you don’t know, it’s probably time you do. This is no time to be politically correct when it’s your money on the line. You know where Your Survival Guy stands on ESG. I hate it. And yet, in my conversations with you, a prospective client, you told me you asked your “guy” about ESG the other day, and you didn’t get a straight answer, as … [Read more...]

The Clock is TikTok-ing on Legacy Social Media Platforms

May 13, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

Have you used Tik Tok? It's a social media app owned by a private company based in China. It has attracted a massive userbase at the same time older social media platforms are finding it more difficult to grow. Can Tik Tok keep it going? Laura Forman reports in The Wall Street Journal: If the sun is setting on Facebook, then TikTok is dancing in the moonlight. How long can its short-form video hold consumers’ fickle attention? Just a few years ago, China-based ByteDance’s TikTok was an app for kids, with videos of anthropomorphic pets or freakishly talented children dancing. Now it seems … [Read more...]

PRICES SOAR: Diesel Shortage Could Cripple America’s Economy

May 13, 2022 By Dick Young

Prices for diesel fuel are soaring, and shortages of the critical transportation fuel could leave economies, including America's, in shambles. At MarketWatch, Dan Molinski reports on the fears of a shortage of diesel, writing: One of the U.S.'s largest truck stops, Love's, said Wednesday it is closely watching its diesel fuel supplies in the Northeast amid growing concerns of industry-wide shortages, but said it has no plans to limit purchases. "Love's is monitoring the fluid situation on the East Coast, we have experienced minimal outages during low traffic hours," Oklahoma-based Love's … [Read more...]

CRYPTO: Has the Fire Gone Out?

May 13, 2022 By E.J. Smith

In The Wall Street Journal, Peter Santilli and Corrie Driebusch write that "Last year cryptocurrencies were on fire and appeared to gain more legitimacy after years of being considered a fringe, speculative product." In the last six months, crypto has lost $1 trillion in market value. It's fair to ask, has the fire gone out? Santilli and Driebusch write: In November, bitcoin and ethereum, two of the most popular cryptocurrencies, reached all-time highs. Bitcoin’s value at 5 p.m. on Nov. 9 was $67,802.30; ethereum was worth $4,800. They are now down 58% and 60%, respectively, from those … [Read more...]

MARKET CHAOS: This May Take Time, Here’s How to Prepare

May 12, 2022 By E.J. Smith

Do yourself a favor. Take a vacation (everyone else is, trust me). Turn off your phone, your computer, your TV, and take a mental break from your investments for a minute. Because in times like these, and they’re quite the times, it never ceases to amaze me how all of a sudden investors get “serious” about their money. They stay up late, study hard, and pull all-nighters trying to figure it “all” out. Come on. Are you kidding me? One of your greatest assets as a successful, long-term investor is the ability to keep your cool while others lose theirs. And as Your Survival Guy, I’m not going … [Read more...]

The Innovation Bubble Goes Bust

May 12, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

The innovation bubble looks like it has gone bust. The ARK Innovation ETF is down almost 80% from its all-time high. Those are dotcom-type bust numbers. Disruptive technologies that were supposed to change the world have been some of the best performing stocks over the last decade. The hype cycle reached a peak following COVID. Investors heard for years that this breed of disruptive technology firms was different than the dotcom bubble era companies. Why? Because these stocks had real revenues and real cash flows. We would note, no dividends to speak of, but yes there was real revenue and … [Read more...]

Institutional Investors Fall in Love with Oil, Again

May 12, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

By G B Hart @ Shutterstock.com It's been a few years since oil was a favorite of institutional investors, but the hiatus appears to be over. Institutional investors are coming back to energy as it becomes the market's best-performing sector. Gregory Zuckerman reports for The Wall Street Journal: Big investors are starting to warm to energy. For more than five years, endowments, pension funds and other so-called institutional investors shunned the oil-and-gas industry because of big losses and concerns about climate change. Now some investors are coming back as energy emerges as the stock … [Read more...]

RAGE GAUGE: INVESTOR CARNAGE—Losing Control of Your Money

May 11, 2022 By E.J. Smith

If you’re feeling like you’re losing control of your money, there may be some truth to that. Do you want your investments used as a tool to invest in other people’s political agendas? When it comes to ESG and BlackRock, for example, that’s exactly what’s happening. Through their mutual funds and ETFs, you’re part of their political crusade. But being part of their political crusade probably isn’t one of the reasons you invested with them to begin with. No offense to BlackRock, but this is about your agenda—your retirement. Why would you waste your time with mutual funds when they’re … [Read more...]

STABLECOIN DEATH SPIRAL? TerraUSD Becomes Terra0.5USD Overnight

May 11, 2022 By E.J. Smith

A selloff is currently hitting cryptocurrencies, and one, in particular, is beginning to look like an emperor with no clothes. TerraUSD, a so-called "stablecoin," because of its purported peg to the dollar at 1 to 1, has lost around half its value overnight. The loss was so great, according to industry analysts, that it could even enter what's known as a "death spiral." According to The Wall Street Journal, TerraUSD uses " financial engineering to maintain its link to the dollar." Does that sound very "stable," to you? Caitlin Ostroff and Elaine Yu explain the breakdown, writing: The … [Read more...]

FRIEND OR FOE: Are You Investing with Time, or Against It?

May 10, 2022 By E.J. Smith

As pensions loaded up on real estate as a “sure thing, can’t miss” investment, office buildings are drowning from a wave of sublease space. Konrad Putzier reports on the glut of office space in The Wall Street Journal, writing: The amount of space listed for sublease surged in the first year of the pandemic to the highest level in decades in some cities. But it fell in the second half of 2021 as offices leased up and some companies took listings off the market. Now it is rising again. Sublease availability across the U.S. increased 3.6% in the first quarter to 159 million square feet, … [Read more...]

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