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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). Plenty of other managed futures funds came onto the scene in 2013 and 2014 but I think RYMFX is the only one to test what was a terrible time for managed futures.

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Let's Have Some Fun(d)!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

It backtests to 2014. I've been critical of the actual FIG ETF, the Simplify Macro ETF, it is really struggling but I think the fund's idea for asset allocation works for the most part. We don't spend a ton of time talking about Sharpe Ratios but yikes, that is a huge difference for the same asset allocation.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

And I think you will also, if you are at all curious about estate planning or investing or personal finance, this is not the usual discussion and I think it’s very worthwhile for you to hear this and share it with friends and family. And after I got my last urine bonus in early 2014, I walked in and handed, handed my notice.

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Weekend Reading – Is Inflation Dead?

Discipline Funds

according to Siegel (2014). I hate to sound like a skeptic about this, but my guess is that the reason many investment firms promote the 10%+ figure is because they are either ignorant of these facts or, more likely, they want to frame returns as being high because their fees are high. The reality is that stocks have averaged about 4.4%

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My Investing Mentors

The Irrelevant Investor

Everybody who ever invested a dime in the market had a mentor. Here are two brilliant quotes from The Little Book of Common Sense Investing : Don't look for the needle in the haystack. The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. Just buy the haystack!

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2024

Dear Mr. Market

My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. We break down and assign each of the four “regions” with an asset class and then pick teams (stocks) that we think have the best chance at doing well relative to others.

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Investment Perspectives | Real Returns

Brown Advisory

Investment Perspectives | Real Returns achen Fri, 07/01/2016 - 06:00 One of the most penetrating and recurring questions we receive from clients is, “what is a reasonable long-term expectation for U.S. over the last 100 years (1915–2014), but interestingly, they increased to 7.9% stock market returns?”