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Why Is the Fed Always Late to the Party?

The Big Picture

If only the Fed didn’t do X, our portfolio would have been much better” seems to be a terrible approach to managing assets for clients. 2000s : Kept rates too low for too long following 9/11 and dotcom implosion – FOMC Rate did not get over 1% until 2004.

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At the Money: Managing a Portfolio in a Higher Rate Environment

The Big Picture

Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. We’re going to discuss how these changes are likely to affect your portfolios and what you should do about it. The Fed was worried that the psyche of investors was to stay away from Riskier assets like home prices or equities.

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Is the ESG Craze Really Fading?

The Big Picture

My firm RWM uses Canvas for those clients who want their portfolios to reflect their values. The most popular ESG application of direct indexing software has been to remove guns and tobacco from portfolios. It reflects the desire for investors to have their portfolios reflect their personal values.

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Exploring Volatility As An Asset Class

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

For purposes of clarity I will use vol to refer to the asset class and volatility to refer to effect and impact. Making changes to client portfolios' overall volatility through the duration of a stock market cycle predates when I started blogging in 2004. So this sort of holding could be one way that vol is an asset class.

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Is The 75/50 Portfolio Now Attainable?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There's a lot of neat things about 19+ years of blogging, I started in Sept 2004, including circling back around to ideas that we started talking about a longggggg time ago. With that preamble, I started thinking about the 75/50 portfolio that I first started writing about during the Financial Crisis. ARBFX 3.7%

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Oil & Water: Fossil Fuel Divestment in Sustainable Bond Portfolios

Brown Advisory

Oil & Water: Fossil Fuel Divestment in Sustainable Bond Portfolios ajackson Wed, 04/22/2020 - 13:47 To many sustainable investors, owning fossil fuels is a black-and-white issue. MidAmerican owns more wind-powered generation assets than any other U.S. Should an investor looking for a fossil fuel-free portfolio consider this bond?

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Oil & Water: Fossil Fuel Divestment in Sustainable Bond Portfolios

Brown Advisory

Oil & Water: Fossil Fuel Divestment in Sustainable Bond Portfolios. We have learned that our clients have differing motives—some simply want the comfort of knowing their bond portfolio is “clean,” while others want to invest in bonds that are funding the transition to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. Conclusion.