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Monthly NFPs Are Rounding Errors

The Big Picture

Some retire, take a sabbatical, go on leave, switch to another job, or join the choir invisible. June 3rd, 2011) THE MOST IMPORTANT EVER NFP blah blah blah (June 7th, 2013) “What’s Your NFP Number?” That is a significant number to recall whenever people posit we either are in, or just were in, or are about to tumble into a recession.

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The Importance Of Diversifying Your Diversifiers

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Mutiny Funds put out a paper on the hows and whys of using alts for The Cockroach Portfolio that they manage and that we've looked at a few times. Picture retiring in 2010 versus 2020. Every other year, 2011 forward, the returns were pretty different with the negative correlation standing up more often than not.

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Nouriel Roubini Enters The ETF Fray

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There's no way to fit that many into a portfolio without having a portfolio of diversifiers hedged with a little bit of equity exposure which I don't think would be optimal. The backtest runs from the start of 2011 to the end of 2020. I'd say it's pretty close.

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The Power Of Owning Something That Frequently Goes Down In Price

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The 2020's have not been lost for managed futures so the same portfolios from 2020 onward. The managed futures blends' worst years in this study were 2011 when they were down slightly versus up 4.31% for VBAIX and 2018 when they were down 5.5%-6% 6% while VBAIX was down 2.84%.

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The Challenges Of Being A Long Term Investor

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Quite a few client holdings have been in the portfolio for more than 15 years. I've owned this stock for clients going back to at least 2011. If you ask most market participants, I think they'd say they are "long term" investors but what does long term mean? There are of course many definitions.

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

There are about 13 different portfolio managers each focused on a different sub-sector. He, he had retired, retired, but he was still active. And to the credit of the portfolio manager that I was working with Josh Fisher, we were actually up that year. Since then, it’s grown to about $7 billion. That was great.

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Just Put It All Into.

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

At the time, those funds were having success because of Hussman's generally defensive portfolio posture. The funds might play a role in a diversified portfolio but hard to peg either one as a single portfolio solution. The idea of a single fund, all-weather portfolio is intellectually appealing even if it probably doesn't exist.