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Investing Flash Report For Hospitals
Real Data, Real Analysis, Real Results
The Investing Flash Report for Hospitals uses data from the Federal Reserve, Bloomberg, ICE, and certain custodial data. The report is intended share information...
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Opportunities With Changing Interest Rates
Option 2: Is a “TIP”
Inflation is up, but bank deposit rates and CD rates have declined since September 2024. Why? The Federal Reserve has reduced the Fed Funds...
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Bond Insight: Beyond the Coupon
“Bonds are Confusing” is perhaps the most common thing heard from others at HiLine Capital Management. We are undertaking an initiative to provide –...
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Opportunities with Changing Interest Rates
Option 1: AA-rated Corporate Bond
One way to make more money is with effective short-term bond strategies. In the current environment of falling interest rates, it has become more...
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Evidence-Based Investing
Evidence-Based Medicine became a formal movement in the continuous pursuit of improvement in the quality and consistency of clinical care. In the “olden days”,...
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Cash Is King
Occasionally markets are priced at more extreme levels due to excessive optimism or pessimism. Presently, the excitement surrounding the potential benefits related to Artificial...
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The Future Is Uncertain – Part 2
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd” — Voltaire Covid started 5 years ago. At the time, the future was cloudy,...
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Markets Within Markets
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people” Isaac Newton On December 31, 2024, The Wall Street Journal...
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Same As Ever
The night before the D-Day invasion, Franklin Roosevelt asked Eleanor how she felt about not knowing what would happen next. Eleanor replied; “To be...
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The Long-Term Expectations Of A High Performing Economy
The standard of living depends on the ability to produce goods and services and is described by the size of Gross Domestic Product (GDP),...
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What Is Temperament?
“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a...
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Charlie Munger – The Modern-Day Renaissance Man
“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.” –Charlie Munger The following is...
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Temperament Beats Intellect In Investing
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine” Ben Graham Temperament beats...
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Long-Term Expectations: The Process Of Professionals Vs Amateurs
“The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself” – Ben Graham Ben Graham discussed the difference...
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Control The Controllable Part 2: Liquidity Risk
“The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.” –Ben Graham Since 1982, the investing world has only...
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Control The Controllable
“Forecasts create the mirage that the future is knowable.”–Peter Bernstein The investing year of 2022 shocked most investors with inflationary forces as the primary...
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Stress Testing Is Key To Risk Management
“The essence of investment management is the management of risks……not the management of returns” –Ben Graham The current investing environment may be classified as...
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Income Investing In A Rising Rate Environment
Interest rates are like gravity in determining the overall stock and bond market valuations. A high interest rate increases the gravitational pull-on valuation. Conversely...
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The Risk Of High Growth Expectations
Growth Expectations Often Overly Optimistic The analysis of historical growth rates is best illustrated by the McKinsey book “Valuation.” McKinsey categorized all companies into...
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Margin Of Safety
The pursuit of investing is to obtain a satisfactory return on principle and a return of principle. But, the future is uncertain and investors...
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Continuously Assess Risk: Inflation Risk
Inflation is too much money chasing too few things. Inflation results in the decline of purchasing power of a currency over time and measures...
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