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Nobody Knows Anything, FedWatch Edition

The Big Picture

Instead, there is a tendency to put too much weight onto the numbers themselves, encouraging a variety of changes and modifications to portfolios due to whatever the latest data suggests. (I have long been a fan of the concept of Strong Opinions, Weakly Held ).

Economics 363
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Sunday links: disregarding the facts

Abnormal Returns

awealthofcommonsense.com) How to dole out risk in your portfolio. grist.org) Anti-Asian hate crimes have been rising since 2016. tker.co) You can expect the Case-Shiller housing numbers to turn negative year-over-year in the next few months. Strategy Your investment strategy needs to work in all markets.

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From Unprofitable To $115M AUM: Reinventing A 2nd Generation Advisory Business By Finding The Right Niche

Nerd's Eye View

Gary Siperstein, Jason's father, had built a successful investment management firm exclusively focused on managing portfolios of small-cap value stocks. The firm is now getting more clients that fit their niche (with 1-2 'ideal' prospects each month) and has increased its AUM from $55 million in 2016 to $115 million today.

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10 Quotes That Shaped My Investment Philosophy

The Big Picture

Sturgeon’s law suggest 300,00 of them are not crap – and that number seems generous. Hence, whatever your views are about the economy, markets, your portfolio, etc., We model the economy, we model markets, we create Monte Carlo simulations of how our portfolios will perform. These created that Aha!

Investing 345
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At the Money: Is War Good for Markets?

The Big Picture

I’m Barry Ritholtz, and on today’s edition of At the Money, we’re gonna discuss whether war and inflation 20 somehow adds up to higher portfolio prices. So what were the numbers like after World War 1 and after World War 2? We’ve spent – depending on whose numbers you rely on – 4, 5, 6 trillion dollars.

Marketing 317
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Can Bitcoin Actually Help A Diversified Portfolio?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In the last few blog posts we've looked at portfolios that seek to replace bonds with alts in such a way to reduce portfolio volatility the way bonds used to. In a couple of instances we've created portfolios that outperformed Vanguard Balanced Index (VBAIX) a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio and did so with a lower standard deviation.

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Old School Alts, Represent!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

With all the time we've spent learning about new alternative strategies (new in that they've become accessible in funds for retail sized accounts) and how to incorporate them into a diversified portfolios, I thought it might be worthwhile to revisit a couple of older school alternatives to see how they're doing through the current event.