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• FINANCIAL THOUGHT LEADER JAMES  GRANT SHARES FOUR DECADES OF INVESTMENT WISDOM AND INSIGHTS November 17, 2023

  Part 2 of 2: As Grant’s Interest Rate Observer marks its 40th anniversary, founder and editor James Grant shares his insights on the Fed, markets, and successful investors.

• FINANCIAL THOUGHT LEADER JAMES GRANT ON THE INVESTMENT RAMIFICATIONS OF THE NEW ERA OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES November 10, 2023

  Part 1 of 2: Financial thought leader James Grant on the investment ramifications of the new era of higher interest rates.

• GRANT: DINNER CONVERSATION November 10, 2023

  Some 40 years ago, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer was created over dinner at the baronial Oak Room at New York’s Plaza Hotel.

• Zak Test 01 November 5, 2023
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• FAIRHOLME FUNDS’ BRUCE BERKOWITZ’ DEEP VALUE, CONTRARIAN APPROACH THAT’S STILL BEATING THE MARKET November 3, 2023

  Following the worst bond bear market in history and the fastest Fed tightening cycle in 40 years, Baird’s award-winning bond fund manager, Mary Ellen Stanek, says bonds are back and are giving stocks a run for their money.

• BERKOWITZ: HANDLING FINANCIAL SETBACKS November 3, 2023

  Award-winning value investor Bruce Berkowitz opens up about how he has handled major financial setbacks, including failed attempts to take mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of government conservatorship and turn struggling retailer Sears into a leading real estate developer.

• STANEK: MEETING THE CHALLENGE October 27, 2023

  Award-winning bond manager Mary Ellen Stanek describes Baird’s strategy to guide clients and colleagues through 2022’s bond market debacle.   

• STAR BOND FUND MANAGER MARY ELLEN STANEK ON THE COMPELLING CASE FOR BONDS, EVEN OVER STOCKS!  October 27, 2023

  Following the worst bond bear market in history and the fastest Fed tightening cycle in 40 years, Baird’s award-winning bond fund manager, Mary Ellen Stanek, says bonds are back and are giving stocks a run for their money.

• VETERAN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIST NICK SARGEN EXPLAINS WHY CHINA’S ECONOMY IS UNRAVELING October 12, 2023

  The political, demographic and policy headwinds causing China’s economy to slow and possibly unravel with serious repercussions for the world’s economies and markets.

• VOTAVA: BETTER HEALTH WITH AI September 22, 2023

  Katy Votava was not allowed to publish her Ph.D. dissertation in the 1990s because it used a then-novel AI neural network analysis to predict healthcare costs. She was forced to take another approach, but ever since then, she has been fascinated with AI’s potential.    

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