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Risk Tolerance Dysfunctions

Inside Information

The test mashed up risk tolerance, risk capacity and risk perception (people see only upside during a bull market, and only risk during the bearish times), which means the scores could be different for different time periods, and might lead to clients taking on more volatility in their portfolios than they could afford, or perhaps less.

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Rethinking What Is Safe

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Meb Faber posted a short white paper titled What Is The Safest Investment Asset ? He devised what he calls the Global Asset Allocation (GAA) which takes in equities, fixed income, commodities, REITs and a couple of others, built out as follows. The white paper plays with the following mixes of GAA and T-bills.

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What is All Duration Investing?

Discipline Funds

Traditional portfolio management applies allocation models that account for risk per unit of return, but fail to account for the problem of time within this process. The All Duration Investing approach adds the element of time by quantifying a portfolio for returns per unit of risk across time.

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Understanding Money & Investing

Discipline Funds

Understanding Money If you start with the following book, white paper and videos you’ll have a very solid starting point for understanding money: Pragmatic Capitalism – What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance (the only item on this page that is not free. Where Does Money Come From?

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. I thought this conversation was absolutely fascinating and I think you will also, with no further ado, Goldman Sachs asset managements Elizabeth Burton. That sounds great, but I only have spots in my portfolio for a Cape Cod.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers. Manager Characteristics.