Validea

OCTOBER 12, 2022

So as we entered 2022, many investors expected that if we got a bear market, that same formula would continue to work. One of the things we do at Validea is track a variety of ETF based risk management approaches that utilize different methods to diversify equity portfolios. Permanent Portfolio – Grade: C. in gold and 7.5%

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James Hendries

JULY 13, 2022

Increased equity exposure in tactical asset allocation from 62% to 65%. Reduced low duration core bond allocation and increased allocation to small cap equities. The Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) changed its recommended asset allocation for July, shifting from core bonds to small cap equities.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 8, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that RIA clients of an insurance broker providing Errors & Omissions (E&O) coverage saw a 213% increase in claims paid in 2023, attributed to significant jumps in suitability claims (likely stemming (..)

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James Hendries

OCTOBER 7, 2022

in September, temporarily breaking below the June 2022 closing low. The Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) upgraded its view of duration to neutral. Surging interest rates, a likely recession in Europe, and concerns about a potential U.K. currency crisis also contributed to a tough month for stocks.

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James Hendries

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) made no changes to its recommended asset allocation for August. Alternative investments may not be suitable for all investors and should be considered as an investment for the risk capital portion of the investor’s portfolio. We could see a retest of 3.5%

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The Chicago Financial Planner

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Today’s decline is on top of high levels of market volatility that we’ve seen so far in 2022. Investors who are well-diversified may be hurt but generally not to the extent of those who are highly allocated to stocks. Review your asset allocation . Go shopping .

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James Hendries

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee’s (STAAC) S&P 500 year-end fair value target of 4,000-4,100 is based on a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.5 Alternative investments may not be suitable for all investors and should be considered as an investment for the risk capital portion of the investor’s portfolio.

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The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Franklin Templeton: We had Josh Greco, Senior VP and Senior Institutional Portfolio Manager for Franklin Income Investors to discuss Franklin Templeton’s Income Focus ETF. The post Talk Your Book: Investing for Income appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Franklin Templeton: We had Josh Greco, Senior VP and Senior Institutional Portfolio Manager for Franklin Income Investors to discuss Franklin Templeton’s Income Focus ETF.

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James Hendries

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee’s (STAAC) S&P 500 year-end fair value target of 4,000-4,100 is based on a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.5 Alternative investments may not be suitable for all investors and should be considered as an investment for the risk capital portion of the investor’s portfolio.

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Park Place Financial

MARCH 14, 2022

FINANCIAL PLANNING What is Portfolio Rebalancing? Investments can be risky since markets constantly fluctuate, but strategies are available to help you maintain a well-balanced portfolio. When people buy and sell sections of their portfolio to maintain a consistent asset allocation, they are rebalancing their investments.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 30, 2024

I stumbled into some content about model ETF portfolios including one interesting portfolio that was comprised of ETFs that I'd mostly never heard of. It was impressive that the portfolio was not just a collection of the largest Vanguard, iShares or Schwab ETFs. The above goes back to GHTA's inception.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With that preamble, I started thinking about the 75/50 portfolio that I first started writing about during the Financial Crisis. I've mentioned 75/50 a couple of times in passing but the big idea was to create a portfolio that captures 75% of the upside of the equity market with only 50% of the downside. ARBFX 3.7%

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James Hendries

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) downgraded its view of emerging market (EM) equities in August. Alternative investments may not be suitable for all investors and should be considered as an investment for the risk capital portion of the investor’s portfolio. It is expressed as a number of years.

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Dear Mr. Market

AUGUST 5, 2022

Not only are we sharing the importance of dividends in this article, but it’s also the official roll-out of the Top 10 Dividend Growth Portfolio strategy managed by My Portfolio Guide, LLC. The Top 10 Dividend Growth Portfolio strategy is a concentrated portfolio.

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WiserAdvisor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is why portfolio risk management can be very critical. However, it is crucial to understand how to manage portfolio risk and what can trigger it. What is portfolio risk? In the case of an investment portfolio, risk refers to the likelihood of your combination of assets and investments not meeting your financial goals.

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Investment Writing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Commentary about portfolio performance is part of every investment manager’s communications. It can consist of a single line giving portfolio returns. In this article, I review portfolio performance reports’ common components. In this article, I review portfolio performance reports’ common components.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2024

Usually a replication strategy will build a portfolio based on reported hedge fund holdings filed on a 13f or in the case of managed futures will sample maybe the ten biggest futures markets believing they can get 90% (or some high number) of the full effect, do it for cheaper such that the cost advantage ends up being the difference in performance.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 29, 2023

A common reason to have fixed income exposure, often 40% of a portfolio, is to help manage equity market volatility. Longer bonds were down just as much as the S&P 500 in 2022, the longest of bonds were down more. A 67% allocation to NTSX should equal 100% to VBAIX leaving 33% leftover in Portfolio 2 to put into something else.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

JUNE 13, 2022

After a strong finish in 2020 and very solid returns in 2021, we’ve seen a lot of market volatility so far in 2022. Ideally you’ve been rebalancing your portfolio along the way and your asset allocation is largely in line with your plan and your risk tolerance. The S&P 500 index was down about 17.6%

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 10, 2024

If you have a combined $40,000 benefit, that's like having another $1 million in your portfolio. The relevance ties into asset allocation. In this context, a $1 million Social Security "portfolio" is considered fixed income. Even if all $500,000 is allocated to equities, that's only 1/3 in equities.

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Nationwide Financial

JANUARY 25, 2023

Review risk tolerance and current asset allocation strategy It’s important to ensure your clients’ portfolios align with their risk tolerance because taking too much risk can negatively impact their ability to navigate market fluctuations. Suppose they made emotional investment decisions during the market volatility of 2022.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 29, 2024

Return Stacked ETFs wrote a short paper in support of their ETF suite about how to incorporate return stacking into a portfolio. For anyone new, return stacking, also known as capital efficient, involves leverage to build a diversified portfolio. The idea is not that you would put 100% of a portfolio into that fund.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

OCTOBER 7, 2024

GMO posted a short paper in support of its Benchmark Free Asset Allocation Strategy (BFAAS). For this post we'll focus on BFAAS' asset allocation. The asset mix is 53.6% A more detailed look at the asset mix shows the the following. No portfolio can always be best. to equities, 29.7% in fixed income.

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James Hendries

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The LPL Research Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee is increasing its recommended interest rate exposure in its tactical allocation from underweight to neutral. You may also be interested in: How Much Higher Can Rates Go? – September 19, 2022. Getting Jobs Market Back into Balance – September 12, 2022.

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Darrow Wealth Management

JUNE 27, 2022

Since trying to time regime changes is very difficult in real time without the benefit of hindsight, there are reasons to consider allocating both U.S. equities to an asset allocation. equity may be able to help reduce risk in a portfolio. By way of example, consider this hypothetical 60/40 portfolio of stocks to bonds.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 24, 2024

Barron's had an interesting article about a BofA study showing that over a period of many decades an asset allocation of 60% equities/40% commodities outperformed an allocation of 60% equities/40% fixed income by 0.80% per year. XRMI actually compounds negatively but didn't spare too much pain in 2022.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 30, 2023

If all you use is a broad index fund then it will either be a good year or not so good, but assuming the proper asset allocation, who cares? The divergence of MCW from 2022 to 2023 is shocking. That's enough to get it done assuming an adequate savings rate, appropriate asset allocation and no panicking.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

MDCEX is in Morningstar's Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) category and the Fidelity info page for the fund offers the following comparison to other funds. falling 36% but in 2022 it was only down 6.5% Regardless of whether 2022 was a matter of luck or skill, down 6.5% in 2022 is a solid result.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Big Investors Are Giving Up on Crypto Markets Going Mainstream : Bitcoin as a portfolio diversifier hasn’t worked for investors Crypto won’t ‘find a home in institutional asset allocation’. Bloomberg ). Wall Street Journal ). • Morningstar ). Institutional Investor ). Morningstar ).

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In 2022 we wrote a couple of posts about the Dragon Portfolio which an interesting idea inspired by the Permanent Portfolio which allocates 25% each to stocks, long bonds, cash and gold. Dragon is similar to the Cockroach Portfolio in that it is offered at a high minimum to sophisticated investors.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

AUGUST 26, 2024

Here's the target asset allocation. I worked in SSO and UBT to be able to leverage up to the right asset allocation. RPAR tracks very close to the replication for the first two years and then it separates from it in early 2022. RPAR lagged the replication by 614 basis points in 2022.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 17, 2024

The idea of building an All-Weather portfolio of course has its appeal. The basic idea is to be much less volatile than the broad market or the typical 60/40 portfolio. It raises the question though of how much performance should an investor expect or be willing give up for the potential emotional comfort of an All-Weather portfolio.

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Discipline Funds

JULY 19, 2023

Modern Portfolio Theory focuses on assembling the optimal group of assets to achieve the best return per unit of risk. A diversified portfolio of 60/40 stocks/bonds, for example, is a wonderful portfolio, but in our All Duration model it works out to a homogeneous allocation with an average duration of 12 years.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 10, 2024

For all the blog posts about about how to build alternatives into a portfolio, the idea from my perspective is how to compliment the equity allocation in a manner that is more effective than traditional fixed income exposure which hopefully leads to a better long term, risk adjusted returns. So far, it hasn't done that.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The story behind the founding of the strategy underlying BLNDX and then the fund itself has a very long runway that you can check out for yourself on the podcast but the asset mix that led to BLNDX is what he thinks is the optimal portfolio based on many years of research. This connects with two things we talk about here.

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James Hendries

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Said another way, this is the longest period since 1976 that bonds haven’t played the traditional role in portfolios by offsetting losses in the stock market. The value proposition for core bonds is that they tend to provide liquidity, diversification, and positive total returns to portfolios. So why own bonds at all?

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