The Ruse: Part 1
Practically speaking, here’s how investment funds often attract assets: they build a track record that makes a case for them being a “good manager.”
Practically speaking, here’s how investment funds often attract assets: they build a track record that makes a case for them being a “good manager.”
The New York Times recently featured an article about an apparently common emotional reaction to the ongoing socially restricted recovery: There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing. Languishing, I learned, is the state of existing somewhere in between living your best life and the depths of depression – or, more succinctly, “the absence of well-being.” And, rather than languishing indefinitely, there’s also evidence to suggest that this emotional middle-ground can lead to increased incidence of depression in the future.
Given our coverage in the previous alt.Blend of how the status quo is unlikely to persist into the future, this emotional-status migration is not surprising. Some thriving today may be in the depths of despair a few years from now, and the opposite may very well be true for some currently enduring painful depression. And those now languishing may find they have moved in one direction or the other, for better or worse.
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Contact: stresnan@thebahnsengroup.com
David is the Founder, Managing Partner, and the Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group.
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