2002 Assets Math 
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The way portable used to primarily be implemented was to leverage up with correlated assets and it ended up going very badly in 2008 when equities dropped 40%. A 20% drop in managed futures that is leveraged to a 40% weight would have added another 800 basis points to the decline (simple math). In 2008, VBAIX was down 23%.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 15, 2023
So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.
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Brown Advisory
JUNE 16, 2022
Long duration assets are losing favour given higher rates act like gravity on the price of securities whose intrinsic value is based on cash flows generated further into the future. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. GAAP in 2002 7. Depreciation rises over time too.
Mr. Money Mustache
MAY 20, 2022
Instead of investing in a productive asset, these speculators were just assuming the recent momentum would continue. 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.). 2) My net worth has just cratered by 20%.
The Big Picture
MARCH 27, 2023
She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. I think, you know, it’s not until probably Farallon came into existence, that it became a real asset class in itself, that stressed and distressed was a category that was thought as investable.
The Big Picture
JANUARY 21, 2025
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. And suddenly you could buy index funds that cover all of the major asset classes. I did it in 2000, 2002. It’s, it’s a temporary move.
The Big Picture
DECEMBER 12, 2023
And I was a math nerd as a kid. And the assets under management were smaller. And the fact that you’re trying to bundle it up into a terminal value in, unless the assets are cash or convert to cash. 00:49:30 [Speaker Changed] I bought it around 2000 and it crashed around 2002. Magellan had more than that.
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