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Research links: more than math

Abnormal Returns

rcmalternatives.com) How skew and kurtosis should play a role in portfolio construction. morningstar.com) Research The 2025 Global Investment Yearbook is here. Skew Why investors avoid positive-skew investment strategies. mailchi.mp) Round-ups A round-up of recent white papers including 'A New Paradigm in Active Equity.'

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Bracketology (2025 Edition) As my friend Mark Newfield likes to say , the Forecasters Hall of Fame has zero members. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 It applies to your personal portfolio, too. quintillion.

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Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

Mr. Money Mustache

S&P returns (including dividends) since 2019, graph by the excellent portfolio visualizer website. So as stock investors here in 2025, were just like rental house investors finding that house prices have more than doubled while rents are only up by a bit. Its just basic math. And it has more than doubled in the past five.

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Is Diversification Dead?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

We've talked just a couple of times about the market becoming increasingly concentrated which just in terms of math means that a diversified strategy will lag for as long as the big names do well. I looked at the Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 (VTTVX) and the Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 (VTHRX).

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

You would offer three of their stock picks where they were probably touting stocks they wanted to unload from their portfolio. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. That’s exactly right.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

You’re there almost a decade, Lisa Shalett : So, and, and from 2012 to 2025, that’s a huge run. 00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? . ’cause we have the ability to offer these services to all our clients. In a very short period of time. Remember that.

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The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning

Brown Advisory

Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time. The marginal rate for the top Federal income tax bracket is 37% until 2025, and will thereafter revert to the 39.6% level in place before 2017’s tax overhaul.