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Advisers utilizing Model Market Center can access Auour’s award-winning family of strategies focused on downside mitigation. September 25, 2019: Auour Investments is proud to announce the availability of its Downside Mitigation Strategies to independent registered investment advisors through the TD Ameritrade Institutional Model Market CenterTM. Auour is one
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Two weeks ago, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, said, “So, we have taken liquidity out of certain products. And it won’t hurt you very much in good times. Watch out when times get bad and people are getting stressed a little bit.” He was referring to changes
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The Sound of Money Dying Wealth can be created and destroyed. Wealth is created when the investment of time, money, and energy arrives at an endpoint where the profit obtained is greater than the investment made. A simple example: you give your child ten dollars, allowing her to purchase supplies
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We hosted Brad Kotler of SSGA to discuss the mechanics underlying fixed income ETFs. As the AUM within these ETF's now is over $1 trillion, more people are concerned about their impact on the credit markets. We discuss how ETFs are created and redeemed and the role they
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Liquidity—the growing scarcity of it right now—is something that has bothered us for a while. It’s getting harder to turn an asset into cash. Higher liquidity implies the ability to sell quickly at a price similar to recent pricing. One way of thinking about liquidity is to
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Wins above replacement (WAR) is a baseball metric that describes a player’s value in terms of how many more wins he brought to his team than a replacement-level player at his position would have. It is a measure of the effectiveness of an individual within the team and
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Leveraging the advisor technology of Axxcess Wealth, Auour is providing an investment solution for RIAs looking to upgrade to the next generation of downside protection. May 6, 2019: Auour Investments announced that their Instinct©family of strategies is now available on Axxcess Wealth Managements’ managed account platform. The Instinct family
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The global equity markets provide the closest thing we have to a free lunch. With little effort, they provide individuals with the means of growing their money over time and above the rate of inflation, thereby providing a savings method that not only preserves purchasing power but increases it. However,
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Building on Integrated’s ‘supported independence’ business model, Auour is providing an investment solution for advisors that want to upgrade to the next generation of downside protection. March 11, 2019: Auour Investments announced that their Instinct© family of strategies is now available to advisors affiliated with Integrated Advisors Network (Integrated)
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After a very dismal December (one of the worst market declines in history) and a powerful rebound in January (one of the best months in history), February has been relatively calm. But before you get giddy, we are not convinced the storm has completely passed. As we wrote in our
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“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” —Douglas Horton The Quarter in Review The fourth quarter ended in rough shape with major equity markets around the globe experiencing one of the worst ends to a calendar year. Equity markets peaked in September when many hoped the U.S.
