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At the Money: Managing a Portfolio in a Higher Rate Environment

The Big Picture

Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. We’re going to discuss how these changes are likely to affect your portfolios and what you should do about it. My stock portfolio is recovering. 2020 comes. We have a big downturn in 2020. amongst institutional traders.

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No Portfolio Can Win Every Time

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The Trinity Replication captures some of the effect of the market longer term, maybe enough, maybe not enough, you can look at the other post to get more numbers, but that is what real diversification looks like. Both portfolios have higher standard deviations than the Trinity Replication but much higher returns.

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Find The Flaw In The Portfolio Part 1

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

I will lay out a portfolio concept that is hopefully robust when compared to more standard benchmarks. If MAXI had been flat, the portfolio would have lagged by about 5%. And of course BLNDX in addition to some of the equity allocation also adds managed futures to the portfolio. Here's our first attempt. JEPY just sells puts.

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Are Convertibles A Magic Portfolio Solution?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Here's CWB compared to a couple of other funds we've looked at recently as possible game over funds and Vanguard Balanced Income Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio. In terms of numbers comparing CWB, PUTW and VAMO; Same stats for the S&P 500 and VBAIX. The best year for CWB which was in 2020 skews the CAGR to 9.82

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The 60/40 Portfolio Is Alive and Well

Discipline Funds

This piece was inspired by this fantastic Josh Brown rant on CNBC about how the 60/40 stock/bond portfolio isn’t dead. The 60/40 stock/bond portfolio is the gold standard of portfolios. Let’s put some numbers to this to explain why. Give it a watch. These are mostly quibbles applicable to specific investors.

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Monthly NFPs Are Rounding Errors

The Big Picture

1 This is significant for two reasons: First, it is a full 5 million more people working today than in January 2020, just before the pandemic struck. That is a significant number to recall whenever people posit we either are in, or just were in, or are about to tumble into a recession. This is not a popular opinion.

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MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.47% in Octoberr

Calculated Risk

From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.47% in October The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance increased to 0.47% as of October 31, 2024. million borrowers since March 2020.