Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

I might argue longer than two years considering the bear market from 2000 took 30 months to find a bottom. Also the 2000's being a bumpy ride to nowhere for the S&P 500 might lead people to view this part more conservatively too. Starting with a hyperbolic example.

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Validea

JUNE 14, 2023

In 2000, General Electric accounted for over 5% of the S&P 500 ( source ). The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. In 2000, the total value of the US stock market was $15.1

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David Nelson

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Do the math S&P 500 Top Performers Bloomberg Data 25% of the S&P 500 is up more than the index this year. Russell 2000 Top Performers Bloomberg Data Even in the maligned Russell 2000, which is not having a great year at the index level, has some big winners. 60% of the index is positive year to date.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. So we really think that it creates alignment to have our portfolio managers meaningfully owning shares of the funds that they manage.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

Notably, between 2000 and 2016, U.S.-based STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) funding is steadily declining—a dynamic that potentially opens the door for China to gain ground on the AI innovation front. has commanded the majority of AI activity over the past two decades. Sharpened by both the U.S.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

Notably, between 2000 and 2016, U.S.-based STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) funding is steadily declining—a dynamic that potentially opens the door for China to gain ground on the AI innovation front. has commanded the majority of AI activity over the past two decades. Sharpened by both the U.S.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing. ADMATI: Yes.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Russell 2000 is off 21 percent. Based on the above, nobody should be surprised that 2022 looks like it will be the worst year for the classic 60:40 portfolio since 1937’s -22 percent. After five years, Wes rebalanced the portfolio to invest only in the top performers for the next five years, and so on. The saddest.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). If you retire just BEFORE a big stock market crash, your first few months or years will drain your portfolio a bit more than you expected, until stock prices recover.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And then I developed this macro affinity starting in 2000, really? So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

Some quick math for the value of your $10,000 after a certain number of years: 10 years: $20,000. Whatever fund you select will aim to mimic the returns of a specific market index, like the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 Index. For example, if you estimate your 401(k) will earn 7% returns annually, 72 divided by 7 = 10.29.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So 2000 could have been 1900, and that could have caused challenges. SPACs had been around for probably 15 to 20 years and that’s what — RITHOLTZ: Yeah, since the early 2000, people forget that. I remember going to the Subway Series between them and the Yankees in the World Series in 2000, I think that was.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s a really easy portfolio to create. It allows you to understand, generally speaking, what is a reasonable beta for that whole portfolio. By the time I got there in ’92, they had a great venture portfolio and almost nobody else even understood what venture capital was. That allows you to do two things.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And I was a math nerd as a kid. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000. He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. But it’s interesting that you really can pinpoint the difference in return because there’s this sort of impatient or overzealousness in trading your portfolio. MIELLE: So there you go. MIELLE: Exactly. I get that.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: That was a super hot theme in the year 1999 and 2000. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? I don’t have — coming from a family business, we say we don’t have portfolio theory. After I left, they changed their strategy and went into what were called CLECs.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You’re accidentally waiting into yet another quant controversy, whether you need both these characteristics in every stock, or whether you can have some stocks that are great on one and simply average on the other and the portfolio comes out. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And that’s, that’s the predecessor to Amherst, which we bought in 2000 and had been running it since then. So think about 2003 home prices had gone up a lot from 2000. So mortgage position in 2000 were way more valuable in 2003 than they were when they originated because they weigh less credit risk. Anything else?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. And like you mentioned, the smooth sailing in the 2000 tens 00:15:07 [Speaker Changed] Didn’t feel that way at the time. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. So it’s all the same.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

1999, 2000, the internet was blowing up. And I said, Paul, I don’t know anything about managing a public portfolio, but the deal we made with each other. The SNL crisis Tiger Chase had started, you know, in the wake of the internet melding down in 2000. I I was speaking at the Javits Center, 2000 people in the audience.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. On average, the median Wall Street forecast from 2000 through 2023 missed its target by an astonishing 13.8 Stop with the math.`

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. Some advisor that’s out there can say, “I have generally 1% alpha for the last three years in my model portfolio.”

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The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2024

Matt Eagan has spent his entire career in fixed income from credit analyst to portfolio manager. I don’t, I don’t know what else to say other than there are a few people in the world that understand running a fixed income portfolio on behalf of institutional or retail clients, a as well as Matt Egan does.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not only did he stand up a research shop from a dorm room in college and started selling model portfolios to fund managers, but eventually created a suite of first mutual funds. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. People have described that in the past as portable alpha.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

In 2000, I mean, sorry, in 1980, I was 15 years old, I’m sneaking into comedy clubs watching, you know, Jim Carrey and Dave Thomas and, you know, like everybody could show up on a night. I mean, a lot of the best trades that Cramer did as a hedge fund manager, you know, tapping out before everything went to hell in 2000.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And there was people, Physics didn’t have, people, psychology didn’t have math, economics was kind of the right mix. The math doesn’t math. Until the March, 2000 top. That was too abstract.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

So this is after March of 2000, his famous op-ed “Big-Cap Tech Stocks are a Sucker’s Bet.”. In every recession, except one and that was the tech bust of 2000, the drawdown of REITs was greater than the S&P 500. Then 25 years after that, in 2000, well, we all know dot-com burst and then bust. You have to apply.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. The currency devalued by 75 percent and my portfolio, which was above $1 billion, went down 90 percent. When he came to power in year 2000, he wasn’t powerful like he is today.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

SUNSTEIN: So back in 2000, I agreed to write a book for Princeton University Press called “Republic.com.” So the granddaddy of this in my field is when you are setting up a portfolio for an investor, “Hey, tell us about your risk tolerance. This is a genuine threat to the health and safety of the country. Are you aggressive?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Between 1981 and 2000 American companies reduced their inventories by about 2% a year. I do the math. It’s that there’s a sort of portfolio rebalancing, and I, I, I would put it to you this way, we’ve talked a lot about Walmart. And this joint venture has really propelled us through the decades.

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