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Recent Blogs from FactRight
- Happy Holidays from FactRight!by russell@factright.com (Russell Putnam) on December 23, 2021 at 5:22 pm
In the spirit of the holiday season, FactRight is proud to support the local non-profit Feed My Starving Children, which strives to eliminate starvation in children throughout the world. From March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, volunteers have helped the organization pack 267 million meals to meet needs throughout the world, throughout COVID. In December, FactRight partnered with other volunteers at FMSC’s facility in Chanhassen, Minnesota, to pack enough food to feed 49 children for an entire year and made a donation to FMSC on behalf of our clients.
- How Fed Policy Is Distorting Asset Prices and Alternative Investmentsby Jeff.B@factright.com (Jeff Baumgartner) on December 2, 2021 at 6:49 pm
The Federal Reserve is sitting on a massively bloated balance sheet, and all major asset markets—stocks, bonds, alternative offerings, and real estate—are long overdue for a massive correction. That was the thinking of many in early 2020, when the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet stood at $4.3 trillion. Prior to the financial crisis of 2008, its balance sheet never breached the $1 trillion mark. But over a decade after the crisis began, the Fed’s balance sheet has been nowhere near pre-crisis levels. Then, on March 9th, 2020, all three major stock indices recorded historically large percentage losses as investors digested the news that COVID-19 illnesses were surging around the globe. The news led to even more government intervention. Today the Fed’s balance sheet sits at a staggering $8.1 trillion and yet many indices are near all-time highs. So, does the size of the Fed’s balance sheet really matter, and what is the Fed’s balance sheet anyway?
- Top Five Ways to Gain an Edge in DST Due Diligenceby brandon@factright.com (Brandon Raatikka) on November 10, 2021 at 6:51 pm
If you seek to provide your clients with DST investment opportunities, I don’t have to tell you how much of a challenge it can be to identify and properly assess a program before it is fully reserved.
- Art: An Asset Classby gavin@factright.com (Gavin Aydt) on October 12, 2021 at 8:39 pm
Art. Is it just for eccentric billionaires or is it an asset class we can all be excited about? There are clearly people in the world with questionable taste and a lot of money—how else can you rationalize the sale of Peinture (Etoile Bleue), by Joan Miro, shown below, for $36.9 Million?
- Highlights from FactRight's 7th Annual* Fall Due Diligence Conferenceby Kate@FactRight.com (Kate Stephany) on September 22, 2021 at 7:22 pm
*Technically, it's been eight years since our first fall conference on September 28th, 2014, but due to the monotony that was daily life in 2020, and that we didn't have a fall conference that year, and my brain thinks 2019 was last year. Oh, not you? Just me? Well then.