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CIO Insights are written by Angeles' CIO Michael Rosen
Michael has more than 35 years experience as an institutional portfolio manager, investment strategist, trader and academic.
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![3RD QUARTER 2013 - ELEKTRON]()
1 Oct, 20133RD QUARTER 2013 - ELEKTRON
Fossilized tree resin has been valued by humans since antiquity. Its essence was used in perfume (still is), and its translucent beauty evokes captured sunlight, prized as jewelry, then and now. The ancient Greeks called this substance, elektron...
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1 Jul, 2013Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
For the quarter ending June 30, 2013, global equities, as measured by the All Country WorldrnIndex Investable Market Index (MSCI/ACWI/IMI) fell .5%, but remain positive on the year, up 6.4%. US stocks continued to lead major markets in the recovery...
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1 Jul, 20132ND QUARTER 2013 - BLUE
Opium poppies have been cultivated by humans for over 5,000 years. But its chemistry wasn't understood until the early 19th century when the German chemist, Friedrich Sertrner, isolated the two alkaloids that provide its potency. One he named...
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15 May, 2013Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
Global equities, as measured by the All Country World Index/Investable Market Index (MSCIrnACWI IMI) advanced 6.9% in the first quarter of 2013. US stocks, represented by the S&P 500rnIndex, rallied 10.6%, besting the World Index.
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![1ST QUARTER 2013 - GRAVELINES]()
1 Apr, 20131ST QUARTER 2013 - GRAVELINES
Elizabethan England was an era of plots and intrigue, chivalrous knights and swashbuckling pirates. The many domestic conspiracies and foreign wars of the 16th century were nominally about religion, but were, of course, really about power...
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1 Jan, 20134TH QUARTER 2012 - PLAY WELL
Filskov is a small, rural village in the geographic center of Denmark. For generations, sons followed their fathers into the family farm or craft, and in Filskov, the Christiansens were the town's carpenters for as long as anyone could remember.
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1 Dec, 2012Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
US stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, fell .4% in the final quarter of the year as Washington remained paralyzed, teetering on the edge of the fiscal cliff. Without Congressional action, more than $600 billion in tax increases and huge...
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1 Oct, 2012Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
There can be several interpretations of the above lyrics and their relevance (or lack thereof) to the current world economic conditions. My interpretation is that the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve continue to tell us that they...
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1 Oct, 20123RD QUARTER 2013 - RECOMBINANT
Aretaeus was the most renowned physician of the ancient world, following in the path of Hippocrates, who lived 400 years earlier. Aretaeus' treatise on diseases, which survives to this day, is a remarkably comprehensive catalog of known diseases...
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1 Jul, 2012Angeles Wealth Management - Quarterly Review
For the second quarter of 2012, world markets remained imprisoned by the ongoing saga of the European debt crisis. Concerns about the fiscal stability of the PIIGSÂ (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) continued to cast a dark shadow over...
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1 Jul, 20122ND QUARTER 2012 - BLUE
Richard Wagner wrote his monumental work, Der Ring des Nibelungen, over a 26-year period, 1848-1874. The Ring cycle consists of four operas, usually performed over four consecutive nights. Everything about the Ring is colossal, from...
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1 Apr, 20121ST QUARTER 2012 - WASTE LAND
Saint Louis was a booming town in the mid-19th century, the gateway to the American west. Henry and Charlotte were a typical young couple in this dynamic era: energetic, hard-working, raising a family. Henry's father was a Unitarian minister...
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1 Jan, 20124TH QUARTER 2011 - BUSHIDO
Four to five hundred years ago, feudal Japan was wracked with internal wars. It was the SengokurnPeriod of warring states, a 150-year span of near-continuous strife as various groups fought for dominance throughout the archipelago.
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1 Jul, 20112ND QUARTER 2011 - GOOD NAME
Eddie was born in St. Louis in 1893 to first generation Irish-American parents. He married at the age of 19, and the first of his three children, Eddie, Jr., was born the following year. Working in his wife's family grocery...
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1 Jul, 20113RD QUARTER 2011 - GLOIRE
Glory is, perhaps, the trait with which the French people most identify. It abounds at Versailles, for example, which immortalizes not so much Louis XIV, as it does his glory. Americans have our battle cry of freedom, and proclaim liberty or death...
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1 Apr, 20111ST QUARTER 2011 - DECAY
Carbon. It's the fourth most abundant element in the universe, second in our bodies only to oxygen, and the only element present in every known form of life in the universe. No carbon, no life.
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![4th Quarter 2010 - Pox]()
1 Jan, 20114th Quarter 2010 - Pox
Blossom was a cow.Nothing special, really, just a cow of the ancient breed of Gloucesters, prized for their excellent milk and cheese. Extracting this precious liquid was, for millennia, tedious, hard work. Before the advent of mechanical milking...
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1 Oct, 20103rd Quarter - Chosin
Staring into the abyss, facing total collapse. A bold, even reckless, action to avoid disaster. An advance, and apparent victory. But a sudden turn of events, a wall of opposition, the recoveryrnis halted. And then reversed.
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1 Jul, 20102nd Quarter 2010 - Dam
American mythology is filled with epic stories of heroic men (and women) who forged a great nation through sheer determination: adventurers and tinkerers, who tamed and then shaped a wildrnand virgin continent, and in the process, created...
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1 Apr, 20101st Quarter 2010 - One
Near Granada, capital of Andalucia in southern Spain, sits the Alhambra, literally, red palace, one of the most extraordinary edifices in the world. It is a paramount exemplar of the superlative design and decoration of Moorish architecture...
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1 Jan, 20104th Quarter 2009 - Apology
It was a time of political tensions, when the resilience, even the very existence, of democratic societyrnwas being severely tested, by external threats and internal dissentions. As democracy had flourished, the state and its citizens prospered...
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1 Oct, 20093rd Quarter 2009 - Wilberforce
Britain's rise as the dominant world power for over four centuries was propelled by two foremost, and complementary factors: its mercantilist economic policies and the preeminence of the Royal Navy. It is moot as to cause-and-effect of these two..
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1 Jul, 20092nd Quarter 2009 - Marathon
Hellespont, the ancient name for the Dardanelles, the narrow straight that connects the Sea of rn Marmara and the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, has a strong claim as the true crossroads of the world.
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1 Apr, 20091st Quarter 2009 - Zugswang
In central India, approximately 1,500 years ago, there arose a unique game, called Chaturanga, or four parts, referring to the four divisions of an army (elephants, chariots, cavalry and infantry). In the painting above, the deity Krishna is...rn
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