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A Sideways Summer That Tested Traditional Portfolios
Most forecasts assume the market is going somewhere. Every year starts with a list of them. Where rates will end up. What oil will do. How far stocks can run. Up or down, each one picks a direction.
This summer, the market mostly went nowhere. Stocks stalled after a strong start. Bonds fell at the same time. The part of the portfolio meant to provide stability didn’t.
Navigating that on forecasts would have meant calling three things at once:
- The 10-year Treasury yield breaking above 5%
- Oil rallying hard on top of it.
- Stocks stalling without ever breaking down.
We would rather respond to what markets are doing than depend on calling all three.
This month’s Note looks at a summer that tested traditional portfolios, why the ability to adapt matters more than the ability to predict, and what a systematic investing process does when markets rise, fall, or go nowhere.
But first, here’s a summary of the global asset classes utilized in our portfolios and their exposures for October.
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From the Paddock to the Portfolio Financial Lessons from the Racetrack
There is a certain resilience required to navigate financial markets, a certain resilience that closely resembles the quiet, rigorous discipline behind horse racing. In racing, real work happens long before the gates open and winning is rarely about one magical decision, but rather the result of a repeatable process executed daily.
There were no shortcuts, no guarantees, and no amount of emotion that could replace preparation, discipline, and grit. Horses do not care about next week’s headlines. Trainers do not get to skip the process because they woke up feeling lucky.
The routine matters. In horse racing and investing.
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