• Many retail investors have a lot of money in their 401k and IRA rollovers
    • In investment vehicles where you can’t see what they’re doing in portfolios
  • The market is over valued relative to what?
  • Trillions of dollars are just sitting on the sidelines 
  • 18.7x current earnings- historical average is 16
    • Volatility is mandatory and it will continue
  • Volatility is not risk, it is opportunity
  • Everyone is buying index funds and derivatives and the cycle continues
  • Appropriate asset allocation allows you to buy stronger companies during corrections
  • A variety of asset classes is important
  • Myopic lossiversion
    • In our mind, the likelihood of something happening recently is much lower than its probability
  • We are not in the business of guessing, we are unemotional in the process
  • Secular bull markets
    • Inflation adjusted basis you have a flat market (2000-2009)

February 6, 2018