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What Is In Your Control?

The Big Picture

Economy : GDP, Hiring & Wages, Consumer Spending, Industrial production, Home building, and on and on goes the list. What is in your control : Your Portfolio : You want to create something robust enough to withstand drawdowns and recessions; not necessarily the best possible set of assets but the ones you can live with day in and day out.

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Monday links: following a recipe

Abnormal Returns

Asset allocation Asset allocation is not a science. insights.finominal.com) Economy Aging isn't great for economic growth. calculatedriskblog.com) Earlier on Abnormal Returns Adviser links: reducing portfolio volatility. obliviousinvestor.com) Diversification reduces the risk of adverse outcomes.

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Sunday links: poor listeners

Abnormal Returns

wsj.com) Strategy Remember all that talk about how the 60/40 portfolio was broken? awealthofcommonsense.com) There are a lot of different asset allocations you can live with. axios.com) Economy Josh Brown, "The economy ought to be able to heal itself for the most part.

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Tuesday links: dislocated from reality

Abnormal Returns

(morningstar.com) Alternative assets are not all that alternative. wired.com) Asset allocation How various asset classes performed during a recession. morningstar.com) Achieving these three portfolio goals simultaneously is tough. bonddad.blogspot.com) Economy Economic anxiety isn't going anywhere.

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Asset Allocation

MainStreet Financial Planning

There are many steps in building an investment portfolio, in this article, I’ll discuss how asset allocation and risk tolerance are important considerations when investing. In simple terms, asset allocation is the mix of all the different types of investments you have in your portfolio.

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Podcast links: AI playlists

Abnormal Returns

slate.com) Economy Derek Thompson talks the impact of GLP-1 drugs with Zach Reitano CEO of the telehealth platform Ro and Dr. Robert Lustig. youtube.com) Investing Barry Ritholtz talks with Joel Tillinghast, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund. (engadget.com) SiriusXM's ($SIRI) business has kind of stalled out.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’24

Truemind Capital

Here are some of the popular themes and the risks associated with them: Falling Interest Rates : There has been earnest demand by market participants to cut interest rates in the US and other developed economies on the back of falling inflation rates. One can consider debt portfolios with floating rate instruments for long-term allocation.