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The Super Bowl and Your Investments

The Chicago Financial Planner

Baltimore (an old NFL team that was formerly the original Cleveland Browns) won in 2001 and the market dropped. What impact have the solid stock market gains of the past three years had on your portfolio? Solid, well-managed active funds can also contribute to a well-diversified portfolio. Costs matter. FINANCIAL WRITING.

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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

The Big Picture

If you think about what Vanguard is all about, we sit there each and every day, figuring out how do we help people retire better, put their kids through college, afford that dream home? We were losing market share in the critical retirement, the 401(k) business. Like, I can just get private equity into my clients’ portfolios.

Clients 279
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ETF Democratization Continues

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In 2000, BPLSX outperformed by 69%, in 2001 it outperformed by 37%, 22% in 2002 and 46% in 2009. Stone Ridge has a mutual fund that owns an art portfolio which, again, potentially offers uncorrelated returns. That point is the anchor, for me anyway, in thinking about how to build and maintain a portfolio.

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Market Commentary: The Summer Rally Continues Amid Strong Job Gains

Carson Wealth

An aging population, with more people retiring and leaving the labor force every day, can also make the numbers noisier. That’s only slightly below the high from last summer, and above anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). in April, and it rose to a new record of 75.7%

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Market Commentary: Best Calendar Month Over the Last 20 Years Holding True

Carson Wealth

That’s only slightly below the high from last summer, and above anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. The prime-age employment population ratio was unchanged at 80.8%

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Market Commentary: Bull Keeps Going, 15 Years Since Global Financial Crisis

Carson Wealth

Retirement funds had been demolished and there was very little hope. Definitional issues around labor force participation (how the unemployment rate is calculated) and demographics (an aging society, with more people retiring every day) is why I prefer the prime-age (25-54 years) employment-population ratio. That went up from 80.6%

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Market Commentary: This Is What Normal Looks Like

Carson Wealth

As baby boomers retire, they leave the labor force.) Encouragingly, the prime-age employment-population ratio was unchanged at 80.9%, which is the highest level it has been since 2001. A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market.