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![1st Quarter 2025 - Exorbitant Privilege]()
2 Apr, 20251st Quarter 2025 - Exorbitant Privilege
The United States is unilaterally dismantling the global economic structure that it created 80 years ago. We no longer wish to bear the responsibilities of leadership, but we may come to regret losing the privileges that come with it.
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18 Feb, 2025Fireside Reading
Three nonfiction and three fiction recommendations for your fireside reading. Enjoy!Rat City, Jon Adams & Edmund RamsdenHow does a city get rid of its rats? In the 1940s, the city of Baltimore ...
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22 Jan, 20254th Quarter 2024 - The Colbert Show
Louis XIV was a financial genius whose policies both enabled the rise of France and contributed to its eventual decline. The lessons of that time are more relevant today as the world turns back to adopting many of those same economic principles.
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14 Jan, 2025"The horror, the horror"
On a beautiful January day that exists only in California, snow-capped mountains to the east, sparkling Pacific Ocean to the west, I saw the flames starting on a hilltop to the north. This is not ...
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19 Dec, 2024Friendships
Last month, I returned to college for a ceremony honoring my coach. I have stayed in touch with Coach all these years, it is one of my most treasured friendships, as well as with some teammates, but ...
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12 Dec, 2024Year End Newsletter 2024
We would like to share some time-sensitive information as well as various planning strategies with you as we wrap up 2024.
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9 Dec, 2024Fireside Reading
Seven selections for your winter reading, including my Book of the Year. May you have a warm and enchanting reading season.NonfictionAutocracy, Inc., Anne ApplebaumApplebaum and her neoliberal ...
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![3rd Quarter 2024 - Maginot]()
8 Oct, 20243rd Quarter 2024 - Maginot
"Don't fight the last war" is sound advice to military planners, but also good guidance for investors and policymakers. Maginot examines the consequences of failing to follow this adage by investors, politicians and generals.
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13 Aug, 2024Beach Reading
Six new books for you, all fiction, all great. I hope you enjoy!The Sellout, Paul BeattyThis is possibly the most brilliant satirical novel since A Confederacy of Dunces. The protagonist, known by his ...
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![2nd Quarter 2024 - Verschlimmbesserung]()
8 Jul, 20242nd Quarter 2024 - Verschlimmbesserung
Investors make two big mistakes in assessing the risks of volatility and liquidity in equities. Solving for one problem creates a far bigger one, a notion captured by this mouthful of a German word, Verschlimmbesserung.
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8 May, 2024Beach Reading
I'm happy to go to the beach year-round, but it's now really becoming beach weather, so I have five new book suggestions for your next trip to the beach.NonfictionThe Blue Machine, Helen CzerskiWe ...
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9 Apr, 20241st Quarter 2024 - Luminiferous
One of America's greatest scientists was responsible for the most famous failed experiment in history. Therein lies lessons for investors today. We hope you enjoy our latest quarterly letter, Luminiferous, by our CIO, Michael Rosen.
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5 Apr, 20242023 Sustainability Report
Angeles Investments believes transparency is key to accountability. With this in mind, we are proud to share the 2023 Angeles Sustainability Report. This annual report highlights our sustainability initiatives and progress made during 2023.
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![Transitioning to OCIO: Enhancing a Foundation's Mission Alignment]()
2 Apr, 2024Transitioning to OCIO: Enhancing a Foundation's Mission Alignment
A community foundation embarked on a transformative journey to elevate its investment effectiveness and mission alignment. The following case study highlights a foundation's transition to a fully discretionary, OCIO.
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1 Mar, 2024Fireside Reading
Seven new selections for you - 3 fiction, 4 nonfiction - while it's still fireside reading season. Enjoy! FictionBaumgartner, Paul AusterBaumgartner is a philosophy professor at Princeton, nearing ...
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9 Jan, 20244th Quarter 2023 - Storms
Confronting seemingly intractable problems with determination & innovation are necessary for investment success. Storms tells the story of the extraordinary engineer whose failed projects led to ultimate success in the US' greatest accomplishment.
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21 Dec, 2023Fireside Reading
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, with ample time to enjoy some good books next to a crackling fire. I have an even-dozen to recommend. Best wishes to all!FictionOld God's Time, Sebastian ...
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![Year End Newsletter 2023]()
6 Dec, 2023Year End Newsletter 2023
We would like to share some time-sensitive information as well as various planning strategies with you as we wrap up 2023.
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![3rd Quarter 2023 - Dyscrasia]()
9 Oct, 20233rd Quarter 2023 - Dyscrasia
Records of infanticide, that most heinous of crimes, have, sadly, existed throughout human history. Disability and poverty have been common explanations for this horror, but so has misguided morality. Babies born in 18th and 19th century Europe out..
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18 Sep, 2023Beach Reading
September is still beach time, so I have a few more recommendations for you. One nonfiction and four fiction, including my (so far) book of the year. Enjoy!House of Cotton, Monica BrashearsMagnolia ...
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10 Aug, 2023Beach Reading
There's still a lot of summer left, so I have five nonfiction and five fiction recommendations for your beach reading.NonfictionThe Half-Known Life: In Search of Paradise, Pico IyerWhat is Paradise? ...
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7 Aug, 2023Satisfaction
Why does the Fed insist that low unemployment drives higher inflation? Policymakers' imagination is being fired by useless information, and they just can't get no.And I'm tryin' to make some girl, who ...
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6 Jul, 20232nd Quarter 2023 - Foxy
A famous 20th century philosopher finds wisdom in an ancient Greek poet, and in so doing, shows us the path to successful investing. Please enjoy this quarter's letter, Foxy.
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29 Jun, 2023Mission Absolutely Possible
From a front-row seat in an Angeles client's summer trustee summit, our Managing Director Garry Duncan, shares insights and optimism for Independent Higher Education in "Mission Absolutely Possible."
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