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Mistakes That Compound in the Markets

A Wealth of Common Sense

She’s been with [advisor name redacted] since October 2010 and has a 2.61% annual return. A reader asks: I recently started looking at my mother-in-law’s retirement account. According to their chart, the S&P 500 had a 12.95% annual return during that same period.

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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). It has been challenging as we've talked about in other posts recently but I believe the 2010's were even worse. Offering diversified exposure to U.S.

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Is It Time to Ditch International Stocks?

Alpha Architect

Since 2010, the S&P 500 has beaten the International Developed market in all but three years. This led the U.S. market to outperform International Developed by an astounding 8.14% compounded per year. Talk about pain if youre a global investor. Is It Time to Ditch International Stocks? was originally published at Alpha Architect.

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Is Managed Futures The Next Iomega?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

I am absolutely a believer in the strategy even though it generally did poorly for most of the 2010's. Adam is part of the team that manages the Rational/Resolve Adaptive Asset Allocation Fund (RDMIX). We've written a lot about managed futures during this bear market as well as during the financial crisis.

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My Favorite Charts

The Irrelevant Investor

global investors for the first time since 2010. investors who allocate to emerging markets. Asset allocation- never the best, never the worst, usually good enough. A falling dollar was a tailwind for U.S. That's a lot of green. Eurozone unemployment is going in the right direction. A sustained bounce could help U.S.

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Set But Don't Forget

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

GAA stands for Global Asset Allocation and it has been lagging for 15 years. The current funk is nowhere near as long as the languishment of the 2010's though. Where we allocated 10% to second responders, only one of the models has all 10% in managed futures. Here's a great chart to illustrate the point.

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Be Good Enough

The Irrelevant Investor

Creating the proper asset allocation and staying with it has a much bigger impact on your returns than selecting the best performing funds within those asset classes. decline in 2008, sat out 2009, and returned to the model in 2010. The good enough portfolio captured 93% of the value as the perfect portfolio.