Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
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You know what its like. You have twins. Werent they born on the same day . They happened to be born on the same day. I think you mentioned that. You have to gear up for that stuff. You can see right now, a mixed picture for the futures. It looks like the dow futures are up by 26. The dow was up yesterday by 236 points yesterday. The s p was up by more than 1 . It closed at its 17th recordhigh of 2024. Again, it ooh is only march 13 ft. So thats pretty rapid success for all of those new highs. The nasdaq was up by 1. 5 . It reversed two days of declines. This came after the cpi number was a little hotter than anticipated. All in all people looked at it saying housing inflation was coming down to some extent and it with was good news. If you took out treasury yields, they were higher. They jumped on the cpi. The 2 yeee2years at 2. 6 . Alaskan airlines is confirming the plane that lost the door plug was actually scheduled to under go maintenance later that night. I roy. To get straight to
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