by Aptus PM Team | Dec 19, 2022 | Market Updates, Most Read
“O Muse!, Sing in me, and through me, tell the story, Of that skilled investor, in all ways of contending, An asset allocation, searching for alpha years on end…” An Invocation of Muse serves as a prologue of events to come, or an outlook in this case,...
by Aptus PM Team | Dec 15, 2022 | Rebalance Rationales
Talking Points – Compounders Overview: The volatility during the year has presented us with a few opportunities to take advantage of depressed pricing in some high-quality companies. Not only did we find some great deals, these trades focus on executing...
by Aptus PM Team | Dec 6, 2022 | Equity Research, Research Reports
Our team does serious work on the names we own, summarized briefly here. Quantitative screening is great, but we see it as a first step, mostly to eliminate companies we won’t consider no matter the “value”. As you may know, we run 4 equity sleeves...
by JD Gardner | Dec 6, 2022 | Market Updates
A quick reminder, the formula for generating investment returns looks like this: Return = Yield + Growth +/- Valuation Change Here’s the graphic showing each of the 3 potential drivers of return, broken out with annualized return of each component, by...
by Aptus PM Team | Nov 8, 2022 | Most Read, Rebalance Rationales
“What a year it has been” is an understatement for the performance of both risk and conservative assets so far in 2022. In 301 years, we are looking at the 4th worst return ever for government bonds through September. Source: BAML. As of 09/30/22 It has...
