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MiB: Ed Yardeni on the Roaring 20s

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Dr. Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research , a provider of global investment strategies and asset-allocation analyses and recommendations. He previously served as Chief Investment Strategist of Oak Associates, Prudential Equity Group, and Deutsche Bank’s US equities division in New York City.

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The Perfect Asset Allocation

The Irrelevant Investor

Perhaps it is no surprise that this has left investors' paralyzed, with them opting to invest their 401(k)s in target-date funds, which experienced a record $69 billion in positive net asset flows in 2015. I guess the million dollar question is "how do you arrive at the right allocation?"

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Stocks vs. Bonds: Historical Returns, Risk, and the Case for Both

Darrow Wealth Management

Because of these differences, stocks and bonds accomplish different things in an asset allocation. Why stocks and bonds belong in a diversified portfolio Investors have different needs, risk tolerances, time horizons, and financial situations which should be considered in an asset allocation. Morgan Asset Management.

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The Advisory | June 2015

Brown Advisory

The Advisory | June 2015. Wed, 06/03/2015 - 10:14. Ahead of the first tightening by the Federal Reserve in nine years, we are shifting into less-traditional assets, anticipating that, at best, U.S. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. Shifting Gears. SOURCE: Bloomberg. .

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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’24

Truemind Capital

Consequently, the portfolio allocation should reflect these probabilities depending on the risk profiles. Therefore, we maintain our underweight position to equity (check the Model Portfolio Current asset allocation below). One can consider debt portfolios with floating rate instruments for long-term allocation.

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Allocating To Game Stop Gift Cards?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Blogger Nomadic Samuel posted an interview with Jay Kaeppel who has an interesting spin on asset allocation with what he describes as 30/30/30/10. In the backtest it was down 3.65% in 2015, that worst year was 2018 and in 2022 it was only down 2.72%. I am surprised how closely it tracks to VBAIX.

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Making More From Less

Brown Advisory

Charitable giving to foundations in 2015 shrank 3.8% stocks since early 2015 has also constricted funding. Indeed, compared with 1995, investors in 2015 needed to take on nearly three times more potential volatility in order to achieve a 7.5% Reassess asset allocation. from the previous year to $42.3