📑 Research Notes for 2021-07-19
This week, we look at the possibility of tapering asset purchases, more inflationary concerns, correlations between assets, and new records in VC activity.
We conduct extensive investment research and share the most interesting content that we come across every week. Here is a curated list of this week’s top observations.
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The Fed’s Asset Purchase Program to Last Until 2023.
(Bloomberg)
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell explains why the Fed's asset purchase program might last into 2023 during testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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US Consumer Inflation Remains Surprisingly Hot in June.
(The Capital Speculator)
Consumer inflation in the US remained surprisingly hot in June, the Labor Department reported this past week. Taken at face value, the numbers raise more doubts about the Federal Reserve’s assumption that the recent inflation surge is temporary. But a closer look at the numbers paints a more complicated profile.
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Correlations Between Equities and Fixed Income are No Longer Negative.
(Axios)
Stock and bonds are usually inversely correlated — when stocks go up, bond prices move down. When invested in both, this diversification helps suppress volatility in the value of a portfolio. However, both have recently been moving together in the same direction, making investors' portfolios more susceptible to volatility.
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Global VC Fundraising is at Record Levels.
(CB Insights)
More than a year into the pandemic, investment to startups worldwide exploded to new highs in Q2’21, as funding poured in across regions and sectors. New records were set in a huge quarter for global & US funding, exits, IPOs, valuations, and more.
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Curated by Joseph Lu, CFA®
Joseph has over a decade of experience as an investment professional, primarily in quantitative analysis and portfolio management roles. He is the founder and managing director of Conscious Capital Advisors and a CFA® Charterholder. The CFA charter is a globally respected, graduate-level investment credential by the CFA Institute, a global association of more than 90,000 investment professionals working in over 133 countries.
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