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Negative effects of a prolonged bull market

Truemind Capital

Equity markets corrected by more than 50% in 2000-01 and more than 60% in 2007-08 which lasted for 1.5-3 Like the circle of life, good times are followed by bad times, and bad times are followed by good times, stock markets also go through cycles of excessive greed/optimism to excessive fear/pessimism.

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Negative effects of Bull Market

Truemind Capital

Equity markets corrected by more than 50% in 2000-01 and more than 60% in 2007-08 which lasted for 1.5-3 Like the circle of life, good times are followed by bad times, and bad times are followed by good times, stock markets also go through cycles of excessive greed/optimism to excessive fear/pessimism.

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A Few Thoughts On Diversification Strategies

Fortune Financial

It has been my experience when reviewing portfolios that diversification is typically expressed simply as a number of various stocks owned, or owning a handful of asset classes, usually stocks of various sizes and geographies, and bonds of varying maturities.

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The Frenzy in the Stock Market

Truemind Capital

Thinking about all this, I felt I had read about this and observed it in 2007. However, I would insist on following an asset allocation plan with discipline, which is unaffected by the emotions of greed and fear. Asset allocation should follow probabilities of future outcomes along with risk profile.

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Trend Following Says Commodities…But Nothing Else!

Alpha Architect

But we do know that post-1973 we entered a world where, for several decades (at least up to around 2007), both bonds and commodities were an important component of a diversified portfolio. The last time this happened we entered a long period of high inflation and poor real returns. Will this happen again?

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Endowment Style & Selling Volatility

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Based on Cambria's other multi-asset funds, ENDW will probably have fixed income duration but that's a space I will continue to avoid. The S&P 500 hit 1500 in March 2000, then again in the fall of 2007 and then the third and final time in January, 2013. The results. Most of us of course lived through that from 2000 through to 2009.

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Nouriel Roubini Enters The ETF Fray

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There's no fact sheet yet and while the holdings are available, the asset allocation is vague without calculating the spreadsheet yourself which I did (hopefully correctly). To my knowledge, RYMFX was the first managed futures mutual fund and it had the space to itself for several years after in launched in 2007.