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CIO Insights are written by Angeles' CIO Michael Rosen
Michael has more than 35 years experience as an institutional portfolio manager, investment strategist, trader and academic.
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14 Oct, 2014US economic growth
So, US economic growth is outpacing the rest of the developed world (and much of the non-developed, um, emerging, world), as seen in these charts (thanks to Goldman Sachs).But will we converge, and if ...
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1 Oct, 20143RD QUARTER 2014 - PLAGUE
Twenty million people died in the four brutal years of the Great War. Thus, the armistice of 11 November 1918 was greeted with the profound joy borne of sheer exhaustion. At 11am on that day, bells tolled across nearly every country in the four...
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1 Jul, 20142ND QUARTER 2014 - DIG
Whiskey has been an indelible part of Scotland's identity for centuries. Historically, consumption was tolerated by the Church of Scotland, but only in moderation and in accordance with Scripture. Whiskey's precise origins in Scotland are unknown...
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1 Apr, 20141ST QUARTER 2014 - TRUMP
Sports have been integral in societies since at least the ancient Greeks, and probably before. Today, through the magic of the internet (and ESPN), more people can watch more sporting events around the globe than at any time in history.
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1 Jan, 20144TH QUARTER 2013 - WEED
Gardening goes back a long time in human history. Eden, after all, was a garden. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, thought to exist about 2,600 years ago, were one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World.3 There are depictions of gardens a thousand..
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1 Oct, 2013Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
For the quarter ending September 30, 2013, global equities gained 8.3%, and appreciated an impressive 15.2% year-to-date. Global stocks outperformed US stocks in Q3, with the S&P 500 advancing only 5.2%.
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1 Oct, 20133RD QUARTER 2013 - ELEKTRON
Fossilized tree resin has been valued by humans since antiquity. Its essence was used in perfume (still is), and its translucent beauty evokes captured sunlight, prized as jewelry, then and now. The ancient Greeks called this substance, elektron...
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1 Jul, 2013Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
For the quarter ending June 30, 2013, global equities, as measured by the All Country WorldrnIndex Investable Market Index (MSCI/ACWI/IMI) fell .5%, but remain positive on the year, up 6.4%. US stocks continued to lead major markets in the recovery...
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1 Jul, 20132ND QUARTER 2013 - BLUE
Opium poppies have been cultivated by humans for over 5,000 years. But its chemistry wasn't understood until the early 19th century when the German chemist, Friedrich Sertrner, isolated the two alkaloids that provide its potency. One he named...
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15 May, 2013Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
Global equities, as measured by the All Country World Index/Investable Market Index (MSCIrnACWI IMI) advanced 6.9% in the first quarter of 2013. US stocks, represented by the S&P 500rnIndex, rallied 10.6%, besting the World Index.
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1 Apr, 20131ST QUARTER 2013 - GRAVELINES
Elizabethan England was an era of plots and intrigue, chivalrous knights and swashbuckling pirates. The many domestic conspiracies and foreign wars of the 16th century were nominally about religion, but were, of course, really about power...
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1 Jan, 20134TH QUARTER 2012 - PLAY WELL
Filskov is a small, rural village in the geographic center of Denmark. For generations, sons followed their fathers into the family farm or craft, and in Filskov, the Christiansens were the town's carpenters for as long as anyone could remember.
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1 Dec, 2012Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
US stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, fell .4% in the final quarter of the year as Washington remained paralyzed, teetering on the edge of the fiscal cliff. Without Congressional action, more than $600 billion in tax increases and huge...
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1 Oct, 2012Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
There can be several interpretations of the above lyrics and their relevance (or lack thereof) to the current world economic conditions. My interpretation is that the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve continue to tell us that they...
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1 Oct, 20123RD QUARTER 2013 - RECOMBINANT
Aretaeus was the most renowned physician of the ancient world, following in the path of Hippocrates, who lived 400 years earlier. Aretaeus' treatise on diseases, which survives to this day, is a remarkably comprehensive catalog of known diseases...
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1 Jul, 2012Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
For the second quarter of 2012, world markets remained imprisoned by the ongoing saga of the European debt crisis. Concerns about the fiscal stability of the PIIGSÂ (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) continued to cast a dark shadow over...
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1 Jul, 20122ND QUARTER 2012 - BLUE
Richard Wagner wrote his monumental work, Der Ring des Nibelungen, over a 26-year period, 1848-1874. The Ring cycle consists of four operas, usually performed over four consecutive nights. Everything about the Ring is colossal, from...
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1 Apr, 20121ST QUARTER 2012 - WASTE LAND
Saint Louis was a booming town in the mid-19th century, the gateway to the American west. Henry and Charlotte were a typical young couple in this dynamic era: energetic, hard-working, raising a family. Henry's father was a Unitarian minister...
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1 Jan, 20124TH QUARTER 2011 - BUSHIDO
Four to five hundred years ago, feudal Japan was wracked with internal wars. It was the SengokurnPeriod of warring states, a 150-year span of near-continuous strife as various groups fought for dominance throughout the archipelago.
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1 Jul, 20112ND QUARTER 2011 - GOOD NAME
Eddie was born in St. Louis in 1893 to first generation Irish-American parents. He married at the age of 19, and the first of his three children, Eddie, Jr., was born the following year. Working in his wife's family grocery...
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1 Jul, 20113RD QUARTER 2011 - GLOIRE
Glory is, perhaps, the trait with which the French people most identify. It abounds at Versailles, for example, which immortalizes not so much Louis XIV, as it does his glory. Americans have our battle cry of freedom, and proclaim liberty or death...
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1 Apr, 20111ST QUARTER 2011 - DECAY
Carbon. It's the fourth most abundant element in the universe, second in our bodies only to oxygen, and the only element present in every known form of life in the universe. No carbon, no life.
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1 Jan, 20114th Quarter 2010 - Pox
Blossom was a cow.Nothing special, really, just a cow of the ancient breed of Gloucesters, prized for their excellent milk and cheese. Extracting this precious liquid was, for millennia, tedious, hard work. Before the advent of mechanical milking...
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1 Oct, 20103rd Quarter - Chosin
Staring into the abyss, facing total collapse. A bold, even reckless, action to avoid disaster. An advance, and apparent victory. But a sudden turn of events, a wall of opposition, the recoveryrnis halted. And then reversed.
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