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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

thereformedbroker.com) Five common portfolio mistakes including 'portfolio sprawl.' morningstar.com) The spread between the 10-year Treasury and the dividend yield on the S&P 500 is at its highest level since 2007. bilello.blog) Focus on the role bonds play in your portfolio.

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How to Avoid Financial Disasters

The Big Picture

Avoid costly errors -Remove classic pitfalls -Create a robust, bullet-proof portfolio It’s going to be the most valuable 45 minutes you will spend this year thinking about your investments. August 10, 2007) What is your Value Add ? April 12, 2018) The post How to Avoid Financial Disasters appeared first on The Big Picture.

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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. The GFC and the pandemic were global phenomena; the 2022 market was the worst since 1981 for a 60/40 portfolio. By the mid-to-late-1990s, I was switching careers from law to finance.

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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

The dotcom top, the double bottom in Oct 02-March 03; the highs in 2007, the lows 2009. Luck : I put luck last because it’s so often overlooked. Consider what you would have had to do over the past 2 decades to be a successful timer.

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Should Portfolios Be Rebalanced?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's had an article about rebalancing portfolios noting that the run in stocks was a good time to rebalance the equity allocation back down closer to target, whatever that might be and also rebalance down some of the relative winners. Over the years, I've trimmed here and there when holdings get too big relative to the portfolio.

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Observations to Start 2023

The Big Picture

The rally from those lows were close to a market double by the time we saw the next peak in October 2007. But here is the unexpected thing about those predictions: Even if your forecast of future events is correct, the odds are against you capturing it in your portfolio. The next ~12 years saw gains of 608.5% through January 4, 2022.

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From 2007 and 2008: The Compleat UberNerd

Calculated Risk

There is a lot that can be said about loan servicing, but let’s start with the basics: Servicers have two major types of servicing portfolio: loans they service for themselves and loans they service for other investors.

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