One way or another, companies will find a way to let individuals own private assets in their retirement accounts. At this point, a new news story appears with a big bank or asset manager looking to sell private assets to individuals. This week, we discuss how investors should view private asset opportunities in their investing accounts, big bank earnings, and stocks on our radar. Tyler Crowe, Matt Frankel, and Jon Quast discuss: - Earnings, outlooks, and conference call commentary from the big banks third quarter. -Private asset’s role in an investors portfolio -Stocks on our radar Companies discussed: WFC, BAC, MS, GS, JPM, BLK, BK, TRIP, ABNB, ESRG, SLG, SLM Host: Tyler Crowe Guests: Matt Frankel, Jon Quast Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Private markets are becoming the public markets. This is Motley Fool Money. Welcome to Motley Fool Money! I'm Tyler Crowe, joined by longtime Fool contributors John Quast and Matt Frankel. Now, we're going to cover the market buzz around private assets that are looking to make their way into retirement accounts and cover stocks on our radar like we do on every Thursday.
But first, earnings season is heating up. Yesterday, our colleagues discussed ASML's results, and we were tempted to also discuss Taiwan Semiconductor's strong earnings report and outlook. But I feel like we've discussed AI and the picks and shovels plays a lot lately on our episode of Motley Fool Money.
We wanted to look at some of the non-AI parts of the markets, and what better way to do that than with the big banks. The results from JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and several others came out earlier this week. We don't want to rehash the numbers too much. Instead, I want to really focus on some of the big takeaways. from either the outlooks or commentary that we saw in the market.
Matt, what stood out to you on this most recent round of updates?
First of all, all the big banks, including all the ones you mentioned and others, beat expectations for earnings. Strong numbers so far, but there are some big winners among the group. I'd say, in order, my biggest winners of earnings season so far among the banks are Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America.
With the latter two, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, they both benefited from a robust IPO and M&A market, which I think John's going to talk about more in a second. This led to investment banking fee growth of 43% and 44% year-over-year, respectively. for those two. Equities trading revenue was really strong. It beat expectations.
And not only that, but Bank of America reported a surprise decline in their credit loss provision, which is going to come into play a little later in our conversation. But in general, investment banking was really strong. And Wells Fargo, is particularly interesting because they don't depend as much on investment banking. We're a big winner. Their stock's up 10% since earnings.
One major thing is that management is now expecting 17% to 18% returns on tangible common equity. over the medium-term, up from the previous estimates, after the Federal Reserve lifted their asset cap finally after seven years. The bank is now going on offense. Charlie Scharf, the CEO, said that Wells Fargo aims to be the No. 1 consumer bank, a lofty goal, and a top-five investment bank.
I don't even think they're a top-10 investment bank right now. Plus, like Bank of America, Wells Fargo decreased their loan loss provision significantly. Some really big surprises so far.
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