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These Are Not Synonyms: Information & Signal
Most investors today do not suffer from a lack of information. They suffer from too much of it.
Headlines arrive instantly. Opinions multiply by the minute. Every economic release, policy debate, and geopolitical development gets dissected in real time across an expanding number of channels.
The question is no longer where to find market commentary but which commentary or opinion, if any, deserves a response.
The month of May was a useful illustration. Markets navigated inflation concerns, shifting rate expectations, geopolitical tension, fiscal debates, and ongoing questions about artificial intelligence and concentration risk. Underlying trends largely persisted through the noise. The gap between what headlines suggested and what markets actually did was notable, though not unusual.
This month’s Note explores the distinction between information and signal, why short-term activity often feels more important than it is, and how a systematic investing process helps separate temporary noise from lasting change.
But first, here’s a summary of the global asset classes utilized in our portfolios and their exposures for June.
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Clowngrades: Welcome to Wall Street’s Three-Ring Circus
Wild mood swings, spontaneous applause, and a rotating cast of characters who swear their raw talent surpasses the others – are these hallmarks of a middle schoolers in a talent show or Wall Street analysts reporting about financial markets? Hard to know the difference sometimes.
A recent headline caught our attention about this topic. It described how Microsoft was downgraded and Snap was upgraded by analysts.
Wondering what happened next? The same day the article came out, Snap promptly dropped more than 13% and hit a new multi-year low. You read that right.
In our view, it’s another example of how all of these are synonyms: upgrade, downgrade, and clowngrade.
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