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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

My portfolio was tiny; I had no 401k, and my wife’s 403(b), with less than a decade’s worth of contributions, was barely 5-figures. By then, we began to have meaningful assets in our savings/retirement accounts and the bear markets had a bigger economic impact on those finances.

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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk. The dotcom top, the double bottom in Oct 02-March 03; the highs in 2007, the lows 2009. Catching the exact right moment when the crowd is mostly wrong goes against all of your instincts as a social primate.3

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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 Looking closely at your portfolio allocation should be done at all times and not just when the market corrects. For the sustainable long-term progress of financial markets, corrections are healthy and useful.

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Trend Following Says Commodities…But Nothing Else!

Alpha Architect

The analysis above highlights that we are in a rare regime when commodities are the only long asset with a positive trend. 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.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. trillion in assets under supervision. JULIAN SALISBURY, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER OF ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT, GOLDMAN SACHS: Thanks, Barry. And I think you will also.

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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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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 Looking closely at your portfolio allocation should be done at all times and not just when the market corrects. For the sustainable long-term progress of financial markets, corrections are healthy and useful.