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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Jeffrey Sherman , deputy chief investment officer at DoubleLine Capital. We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

First up was a webinar about model portfolios at ETF.com. Outsourcing the work related to actually being an advisor would not feel right to me and I enjoy what I get to do including portfolio construction. I think that when investors hear about model portfolios they sort of think in terms of set and forget.

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Hold Cash or Invest? History Shows Cash Isn’t King for Long

Darrow Wealth Management

Should you hold cash or invest in the market? Attractive yields on savings and cash-like investments can make it tempting to hold cash instead of investing extra money. Hold cash or invest? For those considering holding cash instead of investing, recognize that this strategy has risks too. 467% a month.

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7 Best Personal Finance Courses in 2024 For Beginners

Trade Brains

From budgeting basics to investments, these courses offer a comprehensive foundation for managing your money in a better way. Personal Finance for Beginners by FinGrad FinGrad Academy is an educational platform that offers various courses on financial products for better investment opportunities. You can enroll in the course here.

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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. In the period available to study SPXE, there has been no difference in returns, volatility or portfolio stats.

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Bernstein on Bulletproof

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Invest For The Very Worst Of The Worst. We've studied the Permanent Portfolio and 75/50 going way back to more recently the Cockroach Portfolio and the Dragon Portfolio. Same with the others.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. So I was at Harvard.

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