📑 Research Notes for 2022-01-03
This week, we look at the role of defensive stocks during a bubble, the pros and cons of bitcoin, and Finland's consideration of NATO.
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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Defensive Bubble Stocks Are Umbrellas in a Hurricane.
(Richard Bernstein Advisors)
Unsurprisingly, investors have remained reluctant to reduce their bubble exposure, owing to a fear of missing out. Instead, some have advocated reducing bubble exposure by moving up in bubble quality, i.e. avoiding Tech stocks with the most stretched valuations and growth expectations and sticking to established industry leaders with strong cash flows or companies with strong secular tailwinds. Many investors tried to take a similar approach during the late-90s, but unfortunately, with little success.
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The Pros and Cons of Bitcoin.
(Capital Group)
Rarely has an emerging technological development captured as much attention as Bitcoin in such a short period of time. The debate over Bitcoin — and the cryptocurrency craze it has spawned — runs the gamut from advocates who see it as the future of finance to skeptics who compare it to a classic pyramid scheme.
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Finland Says It Could Join Nato Despite Russian Pressure.
(The Telegraph)
Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö on Saturday reiterated his country’s right to join Nato if it wants to, in a dismissal of Russian demands for no further expansion of the Western military alliance near its borders.
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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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