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The 60/40 Portfolio is Back! *after not going away

The Big Picture

Check out these recent headlines about the classic 60/40 investment strategy 1 : The 60-40 Investment Strategy Is Back After Tanking Last Year BlackRock Ditches 60/40 Portfolio in New Regime of High Inflation Why a 60/40 Portfolio Is No Longer Good Enough The 60-40 portfolio is back Sorry, but all of these headlines utterly miss the point.

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Should Portfolios Be Rebalanced?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's had an article about rebalancing portfolios noting that the run in stocks was a good time to rebalance the equity allocation back down closer to target, whatever that might be and also rebalance down some of the relative winners. Over the years, I've trimmed here and there when holdings get too big relative to the portfolio.

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#FASuccess Ep 407: Building Retirement Portfolios With A Liability-Driven-Investing Approach To Manage Sequence Of Return Risk, With Mark Asaro

Nerd's Eye View

What's unique about Mark, though, is how he uses a liability-driven-investing approach to build retirement portfolios and manage sequence of return risk, with a particular focus on using closed end bond funds to generate income needed to cover his client's expenses during the early (and most financially dangerous) years of retirement.

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A Short History of the 60/40 Portfolio

A Wealth of Common Sense

Last year was one of the worst years ever for a 60/40 portfolio of U.S. These are the 10 worst calendar year returns for a portfolio comprising the S&P 500 and 10 year Treasuries going back to 1928: By my calculations, 2022 was the third worst year for. stocks and bonds.

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The Permanent Portfolio Influences Everything

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The paper itself wasn't too in depth but they did provide a little bit of a framework for portfolio construction with alts. That sort of reminds me of the Permanent Portfolio or at least inspired by the Permanent Portfolio which allocates an equal 25% to equities, long bonds, gold and cash. and PRPFX is 0.67. and PRPFX is +0.61.

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The Most Important Part of Portfolio Management

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

With so much allocated to T-bills, it makes sense that the standard deviations of the barbell portfolios is so much lower. The 2022 results, not captured above are also interesting. We can only get the last 11 months of 2022 but it is still interesting.

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Wednesday links: sub-optimal portfolios

Abnormal Returns

danieldrezner.substack.com) Fund management The shift from mutual funds to ETFs has accelerated in 2022. The question is whether Elon Musk is the guy to do it. ramp.beehiiv.com) Elon is moving fast and breaking stuff at Twitter. on.ft.com) Vanguard is looking for ways to give retail investors more say over proxy voting.

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