Tag: interest rates
Investment Letter | August 2025

The S&P 500 may be hitting new highs, but the best value could lie in smaller, overlooked companies. Explore our 2025 small cap investing outlook, why these stocks may outperform, and how we’re positioning portfolios for quality, diversification, and long-term growth.
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One Big Beautiful Bill Act: One Big Step Closer to Doom (Who Cares, Right?)

The national debt today is over $36 trillion, representing over 100% of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the debt will exceed $52 trillion by 2035. And, if history repeats, actual numbers in 2035 will exceed estimates.
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Bonds Have a Place Again, Part II

In my February 7, 2025 post, Bonds Have a Place Again, I reflected on interest rates some five years after the peak of the Bond Bubble—when interest rates reached a low never seen in human history—and two years after bond prices finally crashed in 2022. I had summarized our approach to fixed income going forward: […]
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Investment Letter

Returns this year have been kinder than I would have expected given our rather conservative positioning. Stock allocations have been lower than usual, with little in information technology and internet-related stocks, two areas that have accounted for the lion’s share of the stock market’s returns in recent years.
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