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 there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I've been saying meaningful yield without too much volatility is what investors hope the bond portion of their portfolio will give. The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. Taking volatility out of a fixed income portfolio is fairly simple.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 22, 2024

This blog has pretty much evolved into 100 ways to build a portfolio without bonds. The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

AUGUST 17, 2023

The title tells you the author's conclusion, Why Your Portfolio Should Hold Way More Than 30 Stocks. In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else. If a portfolio starts with 40 holdings each with an equal 2.5% Not too many I'd say.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. 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.

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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. Initially I joined to help them manage their equity portfolio. It was the exact same trade. I buy everything.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. So I was at Harvard.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Both 2021 and 2022 each had 14 upsets; there were 10 upsets in 2023 and nine in 2024, if only three in 2007. Last season’s UConn Huskies won a second consecutive title as a heavily favored top seed, unlike 2023 when they were a four. It applies to your personal portfolio, too. Between 1985 and 2024, there were 8.5

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Risk parity portfolios are particularly vulnerable when their active weighting algorithms fail to predict shifts in asset correlations." In the same period Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio compounded at 10.89% with a standard deviation of 12.43%. The table/chart goes back to FAPYX' inception.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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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. ADMATI: Yes.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I worked in sort of a quasi portfolio management role for like a single client account type business. And then I worked on it throughout the GFC and then became the senior portfolio manager during the recovery period.

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Good Financial Cents

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

You can become a tutor in almost any subject, but science and math are two of the most profitable niches. One way to do this would be to invest in a portfolio of high-quality dividend stocks, commonly known as Dividend Aristocrats. You can easily qualify if you have a teaching background or major in any particular subject in college.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Download it here Darwinian Investing: The Science of Rejection The outperformance of the “Magnificent Seven”1 during 2023 led to many questions from our investors (for instance “why are you underweight the Mag 7?”) One of our colleagues, Ken Stuzin, likens portfolio construction to Darwinian Investing – it is about survival of the fittest.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The importance of evaluating social factors in mortgage bond analysis bgregorio Mon, 11/13/2023 - 09:02 Download the Article Social factors such as housing affordability and demographic data have never been more relevant in the mortgage markets. Source: Bloomberg Data as of 4/30/2023 and is the most recent data available.

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David Nelson

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Look outside the popular favorites for new themes as we head into 2024 The Price Tag for Downside Protection – Protecting the downside often means lagging the upside By David Nelson, CFA CMT As 2023 comes to a close, it is time for a raw, no-holds-barred reflection on the investment battlefield. There is nothing wrong with that.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But you know exactly how they’re going to interplay within a portfolio, hugely powerful. You know, it’s not the equity market, and I run some big equity portfolios, you know, different. But, you know, it’s been in a portfolio for a long time. Last year, it’s in our tactical portfolios.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. And here we are about to start the fourth quarter of 2023.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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FMG

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I’m very excited about what 2023 has in store. The math speaks for itself- over half our population is female, yet only around 20% of financial advisors are women. I’m also more interested in the balance in your life than the balance of your portfolio.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

Earning potential: Depending on how quickly you’re able to find new clients and develop a working portfolio, your potential earnings could easily top the $1,000 mark designated on this post. If you are to divide your portfolio with equal allocations to each of the 10 companies, you have an average annual dividend yield of 4.3%.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And that’s gonna lead to probably a hard landing in 2023. So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We checked the maps, did the math, and determined that, if all went well, we could drive from BWI to San Diego in about 40 hours of driving time. Safer investment portfolio options – such as bonds or guaranteed income – matter more in a crisis, too. May it be so, even now, throughout 2023, and forevermore.

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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. They get trained at great places.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

What led them in 2023 to say, all right, we want the whole thing. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. 00:49:16 [Speaker Changed] You know, I have a, a chapter and, and an upcoming book about, you are responsible for your portfolio. Nobody cares about your portfolio.

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Clever Girl Finance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Federal income tax In 2023, if you make $31,200 per year, you fall into the second-lowest income tax bracket, as explained by Bankrate. Plus, when you factor in determining federal and state income tax rates … It becomes a lot of math! For example, for an uncomplicated way to begin investing, consider the 3 fund portfolio.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I look for people that have done extracurricular work, or you know, manage their own little portfolio, or have stock ideas or businesses ideas that they want to pitch. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

31 March, 2023) What is a Call Option and How to ouse it with example. BOBBY SAMUELSON: Which is what the financial advisors typically see is just a forward projection of this monthly cycle recurring over and over and over, over again. Excuse exactly. SARA GRILLO: But that is a total return… Not a price return. link] Fernando, Jason.

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

00:08:01 [Speaker Changed] And then from AssetMark, in October, 2023, you’re recruited to become CEO at Orion. 00:09:56 [Speaker Changed] You’re right, that the, the heritage of Orion is portfolio counting, trading, and reporting. Tell us about the various roles and responsibilities Orion has within the RIA industry.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The huge end-of-year rally in 2023 (the S&P 500 was up 14% in November and December) did suggest some weakness in late December and early January would be normal. We are officially three calendar months off the October 27, 2023, correction lows. in inflation-adjusted terms in 2023. in October 2023). Stocks gained 19.6%

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The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Math is powerful. Winning as a gambler is tough generally , but there are typically several Super Bowl bets where simple math demonstrates that the line is off (in terms of reality if not in terms of equalizing the total bets). If you know and can apply it, math is a major edge in gambling about football and elsewhere.

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The Better Letter

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

He spends way more time on how to save $1,000 than on what your investment portfolio should look like. I couldn’t make that math work at all plausibly. “And over the past 30 years, my little portfolio … has averaged 12, most years over 13 percent.” An investment portfolio is a luxurious afterthought.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

By the time you got to ’87, right, the futures were five years old, people thought there was going to be portfolio insurance, that there was going to be this massive, always liquidity that you could stay longer stocks and that you could sell futures against it. And so it’s one of these things that math works.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Boldly flying in front of a stained glass window Portfolio Management Sick of the ups and downs of the markets? 2023 is merely a sequel to 2022, already anticipating the FOMC stopping Jan 13, 2023 Experts Spent Years ‘Angst-ing’ Over Value.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You’re accidentally waiting into yet another quant controversy, whether you need both these characteristics in every stock, or whether you can have some stocks that are great on one and simply average on the other and the portfolio comes out. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun.

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