Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged. I find this to be interesting but anyone needing normal stock market growth in order for their retirement plan to work, probably isn't going to get it from any of these portfolios. The Replication is based on this from RPAR.

Portfolio 52

Portfolio Assets Management Math 52

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A quick excerpt from a post a couple of weeks ago about retirement misconceptions. I would much rather withdraw 10% or more per year from my retirement accounts and do it without taking any principal. Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills.

Math 74

Math Retirement Numbers Portfolio 74

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In the case of real estate a 2.29% weighting and for "private equity" companies it's about 17 basis points (looked at XLF holdings and then did a little math), that's just not going to move the needle. You may agree with Jack about not needing those things, that's valid, my point is that owning an index fund isn't a proxy for them.

Math 75

Math Portfolio Marketing Marketing 75

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 17, 2022

There's other math about outperformance but also the observation that momentum is prone to crashes. You don't see that before the 2020 Pandemic Crash though. The current event, rolling over slowly is more typical of bear market behavior as opposed to the crash in 2020. Here's the last year.

Math 98

Math Marketing Marketing 98

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 10, 2023

There was a lot of content from various places over the weekend about whether it is time to go back into bonds, what retired investors should do for yield and even whether retirees are better off going 100% into equities. The blue line is equities and the red line is bonds up until the end of 2020.

Portfolio 74

Portfolio Math Assets Retirement 74

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 14, 2022

It doesn't look like an investment grade bond proxy and I would note that on a price basis it essentially fell the same amount as the NASDAQ during the pandemic crash in March 2020. PUTW maybe snapped back half of what the S&P 500 did in March/April 2020. PBP is the Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF.

Portfolio 72

Portfolio Math Clients Marketing 72

Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

But in the Mustachian Era (the years since 2011 when I started writing this blog ), there has only been one: the 2020 Covid Crash which only lasted about a month. It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.).

Marketing 53

Marketing Marketing Retirement Investing 53

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 29, 2022

Turns out the math checks out using Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 equities/fixed income portfolio and the Guggenheim Managed Futures Strategy Fund (RYMFX). A 20% allocation to RYMFX would have helped in the first three months of 2020 albeit with less of an impact. percentage points.

Math 40

Math Portfolio Clients Management 40

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

Alicia’s Experience One of my earliest experiences when I first decided to get into financial planning was participating in the Financial Planning Association’s Externship Program in the summer of 2020. women tend to live longer, making it much more important to plan for a longer retirement) or a subjective one (e.g.

Financial Planning 98

Financial Planning Planning CFP Financial Advisor 98

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

Numbers 146

Numbers Banking Investing Investments 146

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

Commodities can easily go down with equities or in the case of the pandemic crash, the Invesco DB Commodity Tracking Fund (DBC) dropped more than the S&P 500 during the Pandemic Crash of 2020 and took longer to snap back. The math shows the NTSX/ARBIX/BTAL combo would be down 14.7% and that is the number I will assume.

Portfolio 66

Portfolio Math Numbers Marketing 66

Good Financial Cents

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, by doing a little math, you can easily determine your hourly wage from your annual salary. For 2020, the federal poverty level for a single person without dependents is $12,760. For example, for a family of four in 2020, the poverty level is $26,200. 55K a Year Is How Much an Hour? However, in general, $26.44

Budgeting 64

Budgeting Taxes Transportation Insurance 64

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 1, 2022

Over the last five years, it missed out on the stock market rally until late 2020 when it went parabolic, then drifted lower for much 2021. We dove in on the math at my old URL (sad story, no longer exists) and the math checks out. Sometimes it outperforms the S&P 500 and sometimes it doesn't.

Portfolio 40

Portfolio Math Management Clients 40

Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Demand is likely to continue as more and more people in the Boomer generation reach retirement. If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers.

Food 105

Food Economy Healthcare Economics 105

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

Assets 146

Assets Management Portfolio Investing 146

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I don’t even know what it’s going to be yet, but I mean, I’m not retiring. 00:21:42 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I mean, I think, well, what set us up was we, you know, we got the low right in 2020 for the right reasons. So we were very aggressive in 2020 and 2021. And nobody paid him any attention back in 2020.

Valuation 159

Valuation Clients Investing Investments 159

The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. And I thought, great, I just made partner. SALISBURY: Sure.

Assets 296

Assets Clients Investing Investments 296

The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. People earn wages, whether it’s a retirement account or a tax deferred account or just an investment account.

Assets 170

Assets Management Portfolio Taxes 170

The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

Banking 203

Banking Government Insurance Taxes 203

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And when you saw the US Ag down 13% last year, for folks, again, who are investing for retirement and in their 529 plans, they’re not concerned about it. But when you translate that to folks who might have a heavy municipal bond portfolio, and those folks who are in retirement, and they don’t like principal losses.

Portfolio 130

Portfolio Investing Investments Numbers 130

The Better Letter

OCTOBER 6, 2022

” After the Dodgers were retired in order in the bottom of the eighth inning, Gibson swung his aching legs down from the training table to hobble toward the clubhouse. 23KGibby @Dodgers @MLB 11:29 PM ∙ Oct 15, 2020 12,090 Likes 2,510 Retweets Gibson raged at the TV screen. “How you doing, big boy?,” The coolest.

Math 68

Math Management Numbers Planning 68

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. 2020 was a huge year. You know, we had a really good 2020.

Clients 159

Clients Investing Investments Management 159

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I think what’s important, though, and what’s key is that we found ourselves at a very interesting point in time, in 2020, in the wake of George Floyd, in the middle of COVID. My dad was a naval officer who retired shortly before I was born. What did your dad retire from doing? Tell us about those experiences.

Recruitment 146

Recruitment Engineering Banking Investing 146

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … difficult situations for those who were retiring, right, and those …. And I remember March 2020, there was no thought in our mind that we were going to work from home.

Clients 296

Clients Wealth Management Banking Investing 296

The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

So the fact that I had a sociology degree really didn’t impede, I think getting into business Barry Ritholtz : And you end up in like what some would think of as kind of a dry, legalistic part of Fidelity, the ERISA Division, which focuses on retirement accounts. Three subsequent sales in 2020. That’s a whole nother thing.

Media 146

Media Food Advertising Investing 146

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. LMR in 2020 was 4.6

Management 146

Management Recruitment Numbers Banking 146

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The 75/50 captures 75% of the upside with only 50% of the downside, the math on that works out favorably over the long term. 2020 was a terrible year for XYLD. If it can deliver on being a less volatile proxy for the S&P 500, while tracking closer to the index than XYLD, how should we define success?

Portfolio 40

Portfolio Math Assets Taxes 40

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000. So, so you set to retire as portfolio manager this year, you mentioned your two successors. You, you beat the s and p by 3.7%

Management 262

Management Investing Investments Retail 262

The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

And so if you compare that to today, if you remember Oaktree raised $15 billion fund in 2020, on its own. So you retire in 2018. For example, you talk about the 2020 distressed cycle, and it’s interesting to me that it was so short, so shallow. If you think of the biggest bankruptcy in 2020 was Hertz. MIELLE: Right?

Assets 283

Assets Investing Investments Management 283

The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. Probably the first one I’m ready to retire, which is a post-lockdown question.

Management 130

Management Investing Investments Government 130

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

And caring about price versus anything, even if it were immune to intangibles, was not a very good thing until late 2020, since the GFC, so about 11 years. I think, you know, kind of near the end of 2020, maybe people were being quiet about that affiliation for a while. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay.

Valuation 170

Valuation Investing Investments Numbers 170

The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. 00:19:54 [Speaker Changed] So you retired if it’s not working and you move on to the next that. And so you have, hindsight is great, but always, 00:48:21 [Speaker Changed] But 2020. So at that point, I had a pretty big career.

Economy 146

Economy Clients Banking Economics 146

David Nelson

MARCH 6, 2023

And why did Congress just vote to block President Biden’s Department of Labor rule, a rule that encourages private retirement fiduciary is to use ESG in the decision-making process? When it comes to retirement, we’re talking about people’s life savings and quality of life in their golden years. Do the Math!

Fiduciary Duty 52

Fiduciary Duty Investing Investments Math 52

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Let Mr. Market do his thing and we’ll find out how we did when we get ready to retire. Since 2020, their performance has been awful. RITHOLTZ: In 2020, no one even came in second. RITHOLTZ: I think she was plus 160% in 2020, when the market from the lows, the market was up 68%. It’s how math works.

Management 276

Management Assets Portfolio Investing 276

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

But all those years leading up to 2020, when the whole world collapsed in March, all those years leading up to it, we had kind of a draining of healthcare, a bleeding of healthcare companies because of getting the fat out, cutting the costs down. So corporate pensions that gave a worker a reasonable shot at a prosperous retirement.

Insurance 146

Insurance Healthcare Retail Medicine 146

The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. ’cause if I wait too long, especially with long duration rising, rising rates in long duration, fixed income leads to capital loss 00:25:35 [Speaker Changed] In 2020. And so I transferred to the business school after that.

Portfolio 146

Portfolio Banking Management Portfolio Management 146

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Then we have, you know, 2020, 2021, another — oh, not quite 25 years, but 22 years. SCHWARTZ: May of 2020. You were saying this in early 2020. And as you know, I said the increase of the money supply in 2020 was the greatest in history. Now, they grew at 25% in 2020 and about 18% in 2021. Some did better.

Numbers 146

Numbers Investing Investments Marketing 146