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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. If you’re depending on income to fund your retirement, 5% rates are a blessing. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. You, you wrote at the journal through the.com implosion as well as the whole runup to 2000 September 11th, the great financial Crisis. I did it in 2000, 2002.

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Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

Mr. Money Mustache

The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into index funds, is up about fifty seven percent in just the past two years. Does this make it more vulnerable to a huge crash in the future, and will it affect my retirement? Its just basic math.

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Is Gen-X Doomed?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Bloomberg did a survey and found that Generation-X does not feel like it will be "financially prepared for retirement." Anyone closer to the younger edge of Gen-X could probably benefit by cutting expenses now, the impact of that could compound over the next 20+ years as they approach a normal retirement age.

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60/40 Is Dead! Long Live 60/40!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

My experience is that the typical retired person/couple expects growth in exchange for some volatility from the equity portion of their portfolio, they don't want it from their fixed income sleeve. The presence of lower yields, that yes kept going lower, turned bonds, as opposed to bills and some notes, into equity beta.

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The 5% Rule?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's dusted off the retirement bucket playbook in an article while also arguing that a 5% withdrawal rate in retirement can now be considered safe versus the more common 4%. I might argue longer than two years considering the bear market from 2000 took 30 months to find a bottom. Always read the comments.

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C'mon Gen-X, Time To Rally

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Bloomberg had an article titled As Gen-X Nears Retirement, Many Fear They Can't Afford It-Now or Ever. There was an odd and I believe inaccurate emphasis on workplace retirement plans pivoting from defined benefit plans (pensions) to defined contribution plans (401k) starting around the turn of the century. Probably not. Probably so.