Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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.

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Truemind Capital

MAY 19, 2020

In this blog, I am going to give you insights on the important aspects of investment management employed by the best investors and how we can use them to maximize our portfolio returns besides minimizing the risk. Use tactical allocation to make your portfolio future-ready. Be Cautiously Optimistic.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here's the latest about Harvard from Bloomberg that included this chart of the asset allocation. It's not that someone could not copy the asset class exposure, just that the return streams would not look the same and often, various forms of sophistication replication does not really work in fund form. Black is 2023.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2024

Usually a replication strategy will build a portfolio based on reported hedge fund holdings filed on a 13f or in the case of managed futures will sample maybe the ten biggest futures markets believing they can get 90% (or some high number) of the full effect, do it for cheaper such that the cost advantage ends up being the difference in performance.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Based on the title, it would seem to be in the neighborhood of creating an all-weather portfolio which we've looked at in several different forms over the course of my full 19 years of blogging.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JUNE 13, 2017

Below are two nearly identical portfolios; both are sixty percent stocks and forty percent bonds. Each portfolio has twelve slices, with identical allocations in each sleeve. For example, portfolio 1 has a 10% position to U.S. Portfolio 2 also has a 10% position to U.S. Portfolio 2 sold after the 23.3%

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At Citi, in 2007, fantastic timing, you take over as Head of Structured Solutions. And so, 2007, I came over to Citi. And when you think about market timing was 2007 the best time to — to make a move, but it ended up being a perfect time actually long-term for — for my career. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

AUGUST 12, 2024

Or you could look at the 2007 high which was within a few points of the 2000 high and say it took 12 years to double. Since we cannot know the path, this really spotlights a couple of important portfolio management concepts. If nothing else, it will make for some fun portfolio theory blogging when the track record is a little longer.

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Darrow Wealth Management

MAY 22, 2023

The federal funds rate hasn’t been this high since 2007 when it peaked at 5.25%. Cash vs stocks: growth of $1M With an average annualized return under 1%, the cash portfolio only gains $92,000 over a decade. In fact, the Federal Reserve has raised the upper limit federal funds rate by 5% since the beginning of 2022.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JUNE 15, 2019

They anticipate that by 2023 80% of all assets at Vanguard will be in an automatic investment program. Automatic enrollment has tripled since 2007. 18,500, $24,500 for people 50 or older) The chart below shows overall asset allocation in these plans. This is a beautiful chart. There is way too much of it.

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James Hendries

JUNE 20, 2023

As the economy is likely downshifting, investors should take heed that the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) current stance is eerily similar to early 2007. A Lot Can Change in a Few Quarters So, why bring up a Fed statement from 2007? A lot changed over the course of 2007 and 2008 as the economy fell into the Great Financial Crisis.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. He’s a big picture guy.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 1, 2016

Since equities typically comprise the largest single component of a balanced portfolio, they are the greatest single determinant of overall returns for institutional and private clients alike. Still, investors need to incorporate a reasonable long-term assumption into their portfolio projections. the “real” return).

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Brown Advisory

JULY 1, 2016

Since equities typically comprise the largest single component of a balanced portfolio, they are the greatest single determinant of overall returns for institutional and private clients alike. Still, investors need to incorporate a reasonable long-term assumption into their portfolio projections. the “real” return). Key Factors.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

History offers many examples of investors beguiled and then burned by high-yield bonds sold by overleveraged companies, from telecommunications firms in 2000 to homebuilders in 2007 to coal mining companies in 2014. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. By Mark Kodenski, Private Client Portfolio Manager.

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Carson Wealth

JUNE 12, 2023

We found there were two times during the tech bubble that stocks gained 20% and again moved to new lows, and it also happened during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. It was developed a decade ago and is a key input into our asset allocation decisions.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Hundreds of academic studies and thousands of media commentaries have taken different angles on this issue, with the conversation centered on one key question: Does the incorporation of ESG factors in portfolios help, hurt, or do nothing to returns? Can we also generate predictable utility from managing portfolios around an "ESG factor?"

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Hundreds of academic studies and thousands of media commentaries have taken different angles on this issue, with the conversation centered on one key question: Does the incorporation of ESG factors in portfolios help, hurt, or do nothing to returns? Can we also generate predictable utility from managing portfolios around an "ESG factor?"

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets. Source: BLOOMBERG. .

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

As head of asset allocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

As head of asset allocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

And I remember being on the phone thinking, as the PMs were asking questions about cash flows and things, I was thinking, you’re asking all the wrong questions about whether this portfolio will perform because it’s things like down payment. So she wants her portfolio managed that way. That’s not a terrible thing.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Therefore, Japanese investors generally have been unable to maintain even modest spend rates from their portfolios unless they were heavily invested outside the country or willing to spend down capital. has maintained rates at historically low levels since the financial crisis of 2007-08, yet inflationary pressures remain at bay.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Therefore, Japanese investors generally have been unable to maintain even modest spend rates from their portfolios unless they were heavily invested outside the country or willing to spend down capital. has maintained rates at historically low levels since the financial crisis of 2007-08, yet inflationary pressures remain at bay.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

trillion last year, roughly the same as during the 2007 peak. These extremes pose a serious challenge for portfolio managers because they can distort the benchmark indices against which portfolios are compared. According to Bloomberg, total announced deals were close to $3.6 Diversification Should Help.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So a very different dynamic than we saw back in 2007, 2008, 2009. So when you think about the individual exposure to a specific name, in our funds, it represents less than one half of 1 percent of the portfolio. And I think that what our investors saw is that, number one, our portfolio held up incredibly well. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

They’re asset allocation model driven folks. So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization. The good news is no one event has a big impact on the portfolio. Yeah, it’s super patient, it’s super sophisticated. The bad news is all events you get to experience, right?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not only did he stand up a research shop from a dorm room in college and started selling model portfolios to fund managers, but eventually created a suite of first mutual funds. Versus, Hey, you know, if you have a portfolio with a B, C de, here’s what you can expect. Well, most naive value portfolios are stuffed with financials.

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The Irrelevant Investor

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Fisher, 1958 The Money Game - George Goodman, 1967 A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel, 1973 Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises - Charles Kindleberger, 1978 The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros, 1987 Market Wizards - Jack Schwager, 1989 Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis, 1989 101 Years on Wall Street, An Investor's Almanac (..)

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2007, firms extracted — the private equity firms extracted $20 billion from companies in the form of dividend recapitalizations. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds. But so you had these dividend recaps. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Recall in 2007, the polls had a head-to-head featuring Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton (neither became their party’s 2008 nominee). Highly dependent on precise phrasing of questions That’s just about basic market, economic, and asset allocation questions. November 2023 polls showed Biden vs Trump.

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