Q1 2023 | Putting the Quarter-in-Perspective | Part One: Market Performance

The sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank in March jostled investors' confidence in the market. But, the overall performance of various tech stocks in Q1, such as Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Salesforce, AMD, and Broadcom, served to revive optimism for the stock market's near future. Join Casey Dylan, CIMA®, Consultant, and our host Tom Romano, Head of Strategic Relationships and Product Development, in this first half of of our Q1 recap, as we discuss both market, and factor performance, in the first few months of 2023.

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Good afternoon,

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 everyone. This is Tom Romano head of strategic relationships at

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 symmetry partners and joined with me. Today is Casey Dillon

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 a long time friend of symmetry and our

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 internal communication strategist. Thank you Casey for

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 joining us today. Tom is excellent to be here with you live in

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 person. Yeah, fantastic. Fantastic So today, we're gonna go

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 through our q1 2023 quarter in

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 perspective. It's been quite the

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 interesting quarter to say the least we've had

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 some volatile markets. Although

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 I'll be at some positive results. We've seen things

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 like banking collapses in the headlines. There's still of

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 course the concerns about inflation. And so

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 Casey thank you for joining us to give us some perspective

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 of what's going on in the market. So in a

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 nutshell what happened in q1 of 2023, yeah

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 in a nutshell, I'll be brief if I

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 can so if you recall

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The fourth quarter of last year, right? The

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 last year was a brutal year across a number of metrics, but

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 the fourth quarter we started to see some respite

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 from that and the first two months of the fourth quarter,

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 right? We saw markets actually rebound pretty

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 significantly in October and November and much of

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 that was driven by the sense across

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 the markets Market participants that maybe

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 the Fed was done raising interest rates, maybe

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 that the inflationary pressures that

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 we had seen in the spring of 2022. We're

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 starting to Abate and the market is

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 a forward-looking forward pricing mechanism. And so

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In the fourth quarter, that's what it did. It looked forward.

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 It started to anticipate a period when the the

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 Fed was not raising interest rates and inflation would be tamed.

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 And of course what happened in December was

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 a bit of a comeuppance for

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 those Market participants who got a little bit ahead of

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 the fed and we saw a pullback in

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 December.

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And markets responding to the fact that the FED said well, no,

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 we're pretty set on continuing to raise rates.

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 And and we think we're gonna keep them higher longer.

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As we rolled into the first quarter of this year. We saw

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 a replay of a lot of those Dynamics coming into

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 January Market participants

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 going to stop rate and Market participants started to

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 look forward and price as if the not only

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 with the FED stop racing rates, but they would start to pull rates

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 back by the end of the year given where people

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 reading the tea leaves assumed the

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 economy would be by mid-year.

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 January for a lot of the names that have been

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 large cab growth and Tech names and

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 so there was something of a reversion to

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 the mean in terms of those names really

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 leading the charge in January. Those are

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 the names that were most beaten up in 2022. Those are the

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 names that snap back fastest in the

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 a Resurgence just in the month of January the SP was up

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 like eight percent and the NASDAQ double that right just on the

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 strength of kind of those large cap Tech names and of course what happened

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 economic underpinnings specifically job data for

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 served as a really Stark reminder that we're

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 not out of the woods yet.

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 the sudden the the realized maybe not

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 right not only is the fed maybe not gonna wind this

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 down because the economy is hotter than we thought it was but we potentially

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 eyes were on the Senate

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 hearings with the the chairman

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 of the fed and based on his

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 comments Futures skyrocketed for an expectation

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 of a 50 basis point raise at

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 the end of March the Futures went up to like a 70% chance that

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 the Fed was gonna raise 50 basis points, and

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 of course what happened then you know days later.

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 of Royal financial markets and

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 only by 25 basis points after they had worked to

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 sort of rescue. I don't know rescues the

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 right term but step in aggressively and calm markets

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 had cash on deposited Banks to keep sort

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 of a contagion effect and a larger Bank Run taking place.

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 sort of wild trip of markets shooting

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 up coming back down a lot of volatility a lot

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 of fear injected in markets in March with the

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 headlines and yet at the end of the quarter you finished up

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 pretty again pretty solidly across

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 us markets International Development markets emerging

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 markets in fixed income inequities, right?

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 We it was a it was a pretty decent first

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 quarter from a return perspective despite all of that. Yeah sure.

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 It was like it's a very interesting quarter.

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And I'd like the way you put it on the things the kind of the Resurgence of

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 these tech companies that didn't have a great year last year, but you're

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 seeing asset classes such as the energy

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 sector right who had a great year last year is to

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 use your your term of aversion to the mean right? They had

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 a tough time in the first quarter, right? Yeah. Yeah and and frankly

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 prices have been coming down in oil and gas pretty

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 consistently.

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Since last fall so we did see a continuation of that. I

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 do think and likely there's

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 more conversation to be had

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 around this but the concern that I have or

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 or would have based on

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 how markets performed in the first quarter is that

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 it was so dominated by a

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 handful of names, right? We we've seen

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 this Dynamic before where we're

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 sort of the top largest growth Tech

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 names sort of dominate performance

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 of the market and we and we saw that again in

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 the first quarter right? You think about Facebook alphabet

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 Apple Google Netflix, right?

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 All of those firms were

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 really been challenged in 2022 had a

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 nice Resurgence across the first quarter, but when

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 you dig deeper into the performance particularly here domestically what

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 you see is they were the lion

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Care of that return that we saw the market it was once again

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 the fact that these top handful of names represent twenty

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 plus percent of the overall

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 market, right? So think S&P 500 has got ostensibly 500

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 names in it the top 10 names

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 accounted for all at

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 least 80% of that return right the

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 top top five names half of it, right? So so

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 again, you're getting a lot of that return concentrated in

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 these names.

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 the other names in those indices

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 and it lit. It's the rising tide lifting

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 all boats, but the concern that you

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 have with that and we saw that in 2022 when the

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 air goes out of the balloon to a degree. Well that

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 can be a double-edged sword. Right if those names start

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 to pull back in valuations, you

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 could see that turn around and become an anchor pulling

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 markets down, right and that can happen very quickly just based

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 on the fact that it's so concentrated in a

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 handful of names that are all sort of in the

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 same kind of economic Waters right in terms of kind of

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 this large growth Tech, you know richly valued.

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 Yeah. It sounds a lot like me, you know, I've

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 had these conversations over the years even going back before 2022

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 coming out of the pandemic

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 and those tech stocks. They were the story they were leading

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 the charge and what I'm hearing you say, is that sort

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 of the casing q1, but that double-ed

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word is just going back 2022 would

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 be an example of if you're not well Diversified

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 that could be a painful experience it can and I'm

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 right? So if you think about if in fact

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 the run-up invaluations in this sort of handful of

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 techniques is analogous to what we saw in

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They were so richly valued that when the

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 tech Bubble Burst it took a decade the Lost

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 decade right of just you know, subpar returns

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 back to a place where markets could then start

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 to take off again. And so the concern that

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 that one might have is valuations are

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 still Rich, right? Even after 2022 on

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 a Price to Book basis very

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 expensive on a price to

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 forward earnings basis. It's expensive and

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 so it's not

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 as if these are our Bargains to

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 be had in a Marketplace that that's discounting

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 them. They are still incredibly expensive. And so

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 anything that goes wrong right if the

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 some point or the expectations for growth, I mean,

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 you know, we're in earning season and Netflix had sort

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 of positive numbers, but

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They sort of gave lackluster guidance for next quarters

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 growth. Right? So all you need is for for Market

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 participants to to a once again sour on the

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 prospects of these names and you're right back to it's

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 too too rich like I'm paying

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 too much today for for earnings in

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 the future that may or may not materialize right? And so

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 I've got to pay less and so the price has to come down. Yeah, right. And

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 again, I'm not suggesting that we have a lost decade

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 in front of us, but this potentially room to run

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 if markets turn and I think that's the the concern that

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 I would share with investors. That's what I

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 prepare them for. Hey, we'll take what we get. Right? We're happy

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 to get those returns, but

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This could still be valve this this, you know, we're in the third inning potentially

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 look or fourth ending. There's a lot of game left and we're

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 just gonna buckle up and be ready for it. Yeah, and what is

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 interesting what this quarter and you detect upon that I'd love to get your thoughts developed International

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 to having a very good quarter.

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 I mean when we saw these large Tech

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 names and in the past when they had their run prior to 2022, it

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 was a pretty much us dominated run up.

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 Space. Yeah, I think some of

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 it is the Resurgence of the

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strength of the sort

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 of the the companies that are there that have

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 sort of suffered through a decade of kind of sub-par performance

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 and they were in a much stronger financial

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 position. Then they

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 were for instance going into the global financial crisis, right and they

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 weren't super expensive. Right?

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 So from a perspective of they were kind of relatively cheaply

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 US stocks. And so if we look at just the performance

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 the they don't have to have that much right

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 surprise upside.

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To have nice performance right across the board or

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 relatively decent performs.

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 some of the financial resilience in

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 Europe particularly coming out of

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 the effects of the the Russian Ukraine

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 conflict and looking at the impact that

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 for instance the the price of gas price

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 of oil I had in places like Germany and the fact

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 that they sort of got through that not unscathed but

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 you know, the the avoided the apocalypse

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 right the gasoline apocalypse over the course of the

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 winter right that it was relatively mild. So

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 I think that from that perspective markets sort

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 of said rewarded International developed

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 businesses with valuations that

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 seemed a little more reasonable than the

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 valuations in the US. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense and thank you

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 for that. Yeah, and and I would call I would suggest that

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 Emerging Markets are in a similar but

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 different position right again a little more financially

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 robust in terms of the underpinnings.

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Of those companies relative to where we've seen Cycles where people

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 are risk off and and sort of beating down

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 in price. I think anytime you have a lot of volatility people are

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 hesitant to take a bunch of risk. So Emerging Markets

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 could be a little more volatile as you would expect but

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 I think from evaluation standpoint there's room to run

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 as well over time relative to the US let's let's

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 look at the other side of the coin and talk a

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 little bit about bonds because that's been quite the Hot Topic lately. We've been

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 getting a lot of inquiries from advisors and investors alike

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 about the fixed income market. So give us

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 a little perspective of what's happening in.

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Global fixed income right? Well, if you recall 2022

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 was a historically bad year

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 for Boston certainly, right as as fed as

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 the FED raised interest rates are not just the FED but central banks

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 essentially around the world except for the Asian

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 China and Japan those central banks not quite

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 as much but globally central banks at the

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 impact of course of challenging the yield right

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 and as we know yield in price or are sort of inverse Lee

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 related and so as yield was pushed up by raising

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 rates price came down and and it had a pretty dramatic

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 impact across the yield curve

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 and that was globally as well the United

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 States.

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2022 pretty much a very bad. No good year for

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 Bond holders rolling into the first quarter

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 a lot of those same sort of macro dynamics that

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 we talked about with equities was

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 true to fix income as well the expectation the bond

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 market pricing that they think the FED will essentially

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 be done at some point this year raising rates

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 had the impact of markets rallying

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 to a degree and then of course when there

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 was volatility injected because of banking issues

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 you continued to see a pullback

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 on the the yield

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 right? So at at some points we saw for instance

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 the the 10 year get up over four and we

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 saw a pullback as yields come down then of course prices go

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 up. And so you saw a nice robust kind of response over

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 the first quarter of prices coming up for bonds that had

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 the impact and that was true for treasuries and corporates

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 and international bonds, right? So across the

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 Spectrum you had sort of a nice performance.

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For bonds for the first quarter. And again, it's unusual

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 for fixed income and Equity to look and

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 behave very similarly. That was one of

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 the things that was so unusual about 2022, but there's still

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 sort of Behaving the same way based on the same Outlook

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 that at some point interest rates stop going up

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 or stop getting ratcheted up by central banks.

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 And so that Dynamic is is kind of

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 floating all the boats to this degree and so

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 fixed income has had a robust first quarter.

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Remains to be seen how the rest of the year plays

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 out and and you know, frankly we

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 continued to see the a deep

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 inversion in the yield curve, especially at the

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 very shortest end of the O curve relative to the

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 10 year. And as you know that has historically sort

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 of been a warning sign of

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 potential economic stress recessions right

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 as an indicator and it has remained it

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 inverted for some time now

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 and that inversion has only gotten deeper on the shortest end. So,

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 you know again you would want to continue

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 to watch that and be cognizant of it. I think the takeaway

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 from this is much like with equities. It's best

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 to be sort of broad based Diversified. You never

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 know what part of the Yoke curve is gonna move relative to this and

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 it's good to have exposure

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 not just us treasuries, but

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 the corporates and not just us bonds, but the international

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 bonds that there are benefits built into the pricing of all

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And as we start to see a decoupling of Central

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 Bank activity, yes, they've been

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 acting pretty much in concert, but at some point central banks

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 start to peel off right and they get back to focusing on

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 the handling kind of

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 their domestic concerns. And as they do that it will

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 have varying diversification impacts for bonds

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 around the globe the way stocks and bonds behaves

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 in 2022 with similar and then into this quarter. We're

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 seeing some decent returns globally across those two

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 macro asset classes. We're seeing

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 some of a mixed bag that last Factor investors

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 from a factor perspective, right? But let's

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 shift a little bit and talk about factors for a moment.

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 We're a factor investors are listeners The Avengers that

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 we work with our have clients invested in

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 these Factor portfolios. What did we see from a factor standpoint

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 in the first quarter of 2023 if

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 you think about the factor of value, it's just the the

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 cheaper stocks outperform the more expensive stocks over time and as

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 you know,

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We had a long run where that wasn't true. Right we're

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 growth stocks were just outperforming value to the

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 point that everybody was sort of Naval gazing wondering his value

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 dead. Does this even make sense anymore? And and what

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 we sort of looking at it determined was

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 no actually values kind of in line with what it's always done. It's

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 growth. That's so unusual. Yeah, right and that we're

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 back to the story about the large tech stocks and get over evaluation. Right?

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 And so last year was a great year for Value, right? Even

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 though it was down right value outperform growth

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 by a good 20% Oh, yeah, absolutely and it

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 was sort of that Snapback to recognition of

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 hey one of my paying for right and and these things

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 have gotten incredibly overvalued on the

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 growth side.

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And so it shouldn't come as a surprise then if there's a reversal of

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 that Dynamic that value might underperform growth

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 over the first quarter. And of course, that's what we observed right

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 that value underperformed growth. It was

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 those large kind of growthy names that took off and and so that

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 that factor shows up and demonstrates

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 that thighs right. So again kind of

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 the academic research that smaller cap

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 names tend to outperform larger cab

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 names over time rolling into the first quarter large

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 caps outperform small caps, right again being led

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 by that large growthy and so small caps

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 tended to underperform in general. What's interesting

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 is across factor is

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 one of the reasons you want to hold small caps isn't necessarily the size

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 Factor premium associated with that because

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 that's come under some scrutiny of

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 Lee as academics kind of look at that. Say what

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 do we actually getting here?

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But what really expresses itself

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 in small camp names or all the other factors, right? So

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 the reason you'd want to hold a small cap is not just

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 because you get a benefit versus large caps, but because you get

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 a really strong value signal a really strong momentum really

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 strong quality, right all of these things. And so if we

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 look at small caps the performance of small caps for

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 the first quarter, you actually got to really strong quality signal

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 in small caps. So again a reason

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 why you want to have a multiple exposures for your

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 factors not just pick any one of these right so small

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 caps under form large caps, but quality did really well inside

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 small camps that makes up the next category is

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 momentum. And what's interesting about markets that are sort of

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 whipsawing one way or the other that momentum tends to

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 have a tougher time in markets where the signal is really

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 hard to pick up where there's a lot of whipsawing effect up and down on the

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 other way momentum tends to kind of get whipped around with that.

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Eventually when markets start to pick

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 up Trend whether that's down for a significant period of

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 time like in 2022 momentum does well or up right

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 for a significant period of time and so you

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 would expect momentum to kind

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 of settle down as markets kind of settle down

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 and we see less whipsawing and more directionality. However, and

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 I mentioned it earlier with small caps quality this idea

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 that there may be

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 a flight to Quality in times when the

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 there's a lot of volatility. Well one of the

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 reasons you see that is because higher quality earnings tend to

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 hold up better in downturns. They have a premium

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 associated with them and we saw that very clearly quality

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 was one of the areas that outperformed the market

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 over the first quarter and that was true not just in the

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 US but internationally as well interestingly in

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 Emerging Markets value quality

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 and low volatility did quite

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 well so value was still doing well in emerging.

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Markets again a reason why you'd want to diversify

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 your Factor exposures not just in the US but

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 internationally as well and minimum volatility was

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 a contributor in us but lagged Market

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 beta on the whole a broadly

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 Diversified Factor exposure was I'd

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 say depending on what your tilts are helpful on

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 the downside when Market was volatile, but lagged

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 Market beta to a degree for the

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 first quarter where it outperformed in

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 2022. So again factors are a

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 long term investment. You wouldn't do it on based

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 on one quarter, but we we watch the horse race, right? Yeah.

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 Absolutely and I think a point that you

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 you said that really resonated with me is the notion of how these factors work

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 together right size and quality you mentioned

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 and so having a diverse portfolio

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 of integrated factors.

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maintaining that for the long term

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Should reward you over the long term. Yeah, and that's the

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 expectation. There are lots of factors out

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 there that have been identified in the academic literature when you

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 selectively go out and pick a handful of

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 those factors. The expectation is every single

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 one of those is going to be a positive contributor to

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 your portfolio over time, right you you

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 wouldn't necessarily pick one that you thought. Well, it's gonna be a loser but we're gonna hold on

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 to it, right you're picking all of these different factors of the

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 expectation that each one of those is going to be a

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 positive contributor over a period of time when you

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 weave them together you sort of iron out

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 the highs and lows of any one particular factor and

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 you get that very nice steady stream of

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 return into your

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 portfolio. That's generated by those Factor exposures. Yeah.

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 It's the old the old adage we're going for singles and doubles

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 not home runs, right? Yeah. Yeah exactly. So let's

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 talk a little bit about factors and fixed income and then

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 we can take a look at some of the the factors overseas.

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As well, but I do want to spend some time on some of

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 the headlines. So why don't we

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 talk a little bit about us fixed income factors? Sure. So

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 as you know, right fat factors are

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 not an equity only thing. In fact, we see factors across

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 all different kinds of assets fixed income Commodities

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 housing real

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 estate, right all these I the concept of value for

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 instance and the concept of momentum right anything that has a price associated

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 with it stores can demonstrate these sort of

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 factors. And that's true. In fact fixed income the way we

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 think about factors and fixed incomes specifically is is kind

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 of interest rate risk, which is time, right? So think

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 about what we talked about with the yield curve inversion

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 and what was going on on the short end versus the

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 long end what we've observed in the

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 past. Let's call year was a really

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 strong interest rate risk lack

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 of benefit that you got for sort of being paid

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 over time, right?

490
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And in theory, right you should get paid to hold

491
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 over time because there's less certainty

492
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 about what the future holds so you demand a

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 premium to hold something over time to lend over time. And

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 so when you have the short end

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 of the curve come up that tends to impact that interest

496
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 rate sets that risk that sensitivity because you're

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 not getting paid over time. You're getting paid actually on the

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 the shorter end potentially. So when you

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 see a pullback of rates,

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 right and price is going up you're seeing

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 that benefit playing out through the first quarter as well credit risk

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 is just the difference the buildup over

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 the risk free rate treasuries to account

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 for hey, you know a corporation has more risk than a government

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 and I should be paid that difference. And so you're investing

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 up and down the various yield curves that

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 build up on that and in this case credit risk really as

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 a factor wasn't a very solid contributor

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 for the first quarter slightly positive.

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The the show really has been frankly for the

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 past 18 months were interest rate risk is in

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 terms of factor Premia in your portfolios.

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 And then Market is is again just Market

514
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 beta which is a buildup of all these different factors expressing themselves.

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 So on the whole positive Bond performance

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 being driven by changes to

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 the the yield curve in many cases and some

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 expectation that Bond markets are looking ahead

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 and pricing for a cessation of rate raises

520
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 by central banks. So so my expectation would

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 be for for fixed income investors again much like

522
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 Equity potentially more volatility here, right? The

523
00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:16.400
 the rodeo is not over the big bull riding

524
00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:18.200
 could yet be to come so

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You know stay patient the the benefit here is

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 there's return associated with fixed income

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 to a degree. We haven't seen in 15 years. And so

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 let this play out. And again, these Factor

529
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 exposures are the expectation is over time. These are

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00:26:35.600 --> 00:26:38.100
 going to be a additive to the returns that you

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 get from the bond market you had mentioned this in some of your previous comments.

532
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Factors perform differently geographically too

533
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 right like value in the US might give you a different return

534
00:26:48.500 --> 00:26:51.300
 versus value and the international develop during the

535
00:26:51.300 --> 00:26:54.500
 Emerging Markets Arenas. So I think there's diversification story

536
00:26:54.500 --> 00:26:57.600
 there. Can you comment on that, please? Yeah. Well, yes, of

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00:26:57.600 --> 00:27:00.100
 course and and I sort of made a comment

538
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 about as

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00:27:02.300 --> 00:27:05.500
central banks become decoupled and start to operate a

540
00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:09.000
 little more independently that it has an impact on the

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00:27:11.300 --> 00:27:14.600
local economies in all of these different markets as

542
00:27:14.600 --> 00:27:17.200
 an impact on their currencies. And so

543
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 when you think about fixed income the benefit that you get from

544
00:27:20.600 --> 00:27:23.300
 not only where you hold on

545
00:27:23.300 --> 00:27:26.500
 the curve and and the amount of credit that you're willing but that

546
00:27:26.500 --> 00:27:29.900
 you're going to diversify the various curves

547
00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:32.300
 that you hold and the where you

548
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 are on that across geographies and

549
00:27:35.900 --> 00:27:38.200
 then take into account the impact that

550
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 currencies might have right and so we know for equities

551
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 the the volatility signature

552
00:27:44.100 --> 00:27:47.100
 of equity is is so robust that

553
00:27:47.100 --> 00:27:50.600
 you're you tend to be willing to hold the volatility of

554
00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:53.900
 fluctuations and currency in in

555
00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:56.000
 fixed income. It tends not to pay you to do

556
00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.400
 that. And so I know for instance

557
00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.100
 that here at Cemetery you folks hedge back

558
00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:07.000
 to the dollar sure and that takes some of that volatility out,

559
00:28:06.600 --> 00:28:09.400
 right? And again, I think that's a benefit

560
00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:11.000
 for Factor investors because what you're

561
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.300
Is less volatility associated with fluctuations currency and

562
00:28:14.300 --> 00:28:18.000
 you're getting maybe stronger signal from these these

563
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:20.900
 different sources of return across

564
00:28:20.900 --> 00:28:23.400
 different markets and they're all going to be hitting at

565
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.700
 different times. Once the sort of the global economy

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00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:29.200
 comes unpegged to what's going

567
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:33.100
 on fighting inflation. Yeah until I think it's a perfect diversification story

568
00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:33.300
 and

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we have a saying here that the only free lunch and investing is diversification. And

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 so we tout that investor should be embracing that Casey.

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