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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. This means the portfolio manager plugs in a certain risk profile and then spits out an “efficient” asset allocation such as a 60/40 stock/bond portfolio.

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Risk Tolerance Dysfunctions

Inside Information

But, as I said, there was something else, more critical and important, that I had never been able to articulate until I read a recent white paper by the nebo wealth organization ( www.nebowealth.com ) called “The Perils of Outsourcing Asset Allocation to a Risk Score.” The white paper points out that, today, many (most?)

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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.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

It depends on your asset allocation. I also don’t think you should ever really beat yourself up for sticking to your asset allocation and your beliefs. And they took it out of their asset allocation in favor of other strategies. 00:26:07 [Speaker Changed] No.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

A white paper entitled " Active Alpha ," published by Brown Advisory in 2014, highlights several factors, including: Independent thinking: Studies have shown that managers whose portfolios differ significantly from their benchmarks are more likely to outperform. In short, every situation is different.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

A white paper entitled " Active Alpha ," published by Brown Advisory in 2014, highlights several factors, including: Independent thinking: Studies have shown that managers whose portfolios differ significantly from their benchmarks are more likely to outperform. Manager Characteristics. In short, every situation is different.