“The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty.” – James Clear “Your family is broken but you’re going to fix the world.” – Naval Ravikant The Ceiling The main challenge of 2025 wasn’t markets, unique client situations, or asset growth. It was a founder…
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Writings
What’s Matt Reading? (Jan 2026)
My goal for these blog posts is to provide useful information so that you can make more accurate decisions. Noise includes facts/data/news that cannot be processed into useful information (<— WHAT MOST STUFF IS) Useful information can be used to make more accurate decisions (<— WHAT I’M TRYING TO PROVIDE) Since there is an endless…
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4Q 2025 Market Overview
Market Review The big story for the fourth quarter was continued strength from international stocks (in both relative and absolute terms). Developed and emerging market stock indices finished 2025 up >30% (vs. U.S. stocks up “only” 17% for the year) with help from a weakening U.S. dollar but also from a narrowing of the gap…
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What’s Matt Reading? (Dec 2025)
My goal for these blog posts is to provide useful information so that you can make more accurate decisions. Noise is facts/data/news that cannot be processed into useful information (<— WHAT MOST STUFF IS) Useful information can be used to make more accurate decisions (<— WHAT I’M TRYING TO PROVIDE) Since there is an endless…
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What’s Matt Reading? (Nov 2025)
My goal for these blog posts is to provide useful information so that you can make more accurate decisions. Noise is facts/data/news that cannot be processed into useful information (<— WHAT MOST STUFF IS) Useful information can be used to make more accurate decisions (<— WHAT I’M TRYING TO PROVIDE) Since there is an endless…
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What’s Matt Reading? (Oct 2025)
My goal for these blog posts is to provide useful information so that you can make more accurate decisions. Below are some basic definitions that I found helpful from a book called “Investment Management: Portfolio Diversification, Risk and Timing – Fact and Fiction” by Robert Hagin: Facts & data are both descriptive measures of things…
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