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What Are You Willing To Give Up In Pursuit Of All-Weather

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Unlike the 25% each to stocks, long bonds, gold and cash in the Permanent Portfolio, TRTY allocated 35% to trend following, 25% each to equities and fixed income and the last 15% to alternative strategies. I don't know whether those weightings can vary but the numbers come off the home page for the fund.

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NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap

Brown Advisory

NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap achen Thu, 06/14/2018 - 10:27 The NOW conference is always memorable, but this year’s conference included some particularly compelling and provocative ideas. A good number of attendees recoiled in displeasure and an equivalent number perked up eagerly.

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NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap

Brown Advisory

NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap. Thu, 06/14/2018 - 10:27. A good number of attendees recoiled in displeasure and an equivalent number perked up eagerly. but a number of folks were quite optimistic about anticipated progress. The cost for the self-driving systems are declining rapidly.

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How Americans Save

The Irrelevant Investor

In 2018, 52% of all participants at Vanguard were invested in a single target-date fund. They anticipate that by 2023 80% of all assets at Vanguard will be in an automatic investment program. In 2018, two out of three new participants were in plans that adopted automatic enrollment. These numbers are pretty encouraging.

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Melted Rocks & Retirement Planning

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That's the number you need to cover. I've talked about my asset allocation before being overwhelmingly in cash or cash proxies, about 25% in "normal" equity investments, my exposure to crypto these days might be 2-3% up from 1/2 of a percent from when I bought Bitcoin in late 2018 but down from 6-7% when Bitcoin was higher.

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Raining On All-Weather?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

We wrote a few posts last year about the Rational ReSolve Adaptive Asset Allocation Fund (RDMIX) which is intended to be an all weather strategy. in 2018 when VBAIX dropped 2.8%, not very all weatherish. Managed futures is great but it did badly in 2018, a down year for plain vanilla 60/40. In 2022 it was down 5.5%

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Black Swans & Shorter MLB Games

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Do you even remember why stocks crashed in late 2018? Any retirement plan runs the risk of coming up short for any number of reasons. Russia invaded Ukraine. Markets had a slow, steep decline. The pandemic was declared and stocks crashed and snapped back pretty quickly.