Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

million in assets to both retire and pass on a legacy interest (though many have yet to establish an estate plan), according to a recent survey. Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that affluent Americans believe they need an average of $5.5

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. Elizabeth Burton : Hi Barry.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. trillion in assets under supervision. JULIAN SALISBURY, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER OF ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT, GOLDMAN SACHS: Thanks, Barry. And I think you will also.

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Discipline Funds

APRIL 19, 2023

This piece was inspired by this fantastic Josh Brown rant on CNBC about how the 60/40 stock/bond portfolio isn’t dead. The 60/40 stock/bond portfolio is the gold standard of portfolios. The math on the 40% slice is much cleaner. Give it a watch. I don’t love a standalone bond aggregate as a 40% bond slice.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 20, 2023

We've been seeing a small wave of multi-asset funds that use leverage coming to market lately. The way the math works, a 67% allocation to NTSX (Portfolio 2 with 33% in the T-bill ETF) equals 100% in Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for 60/40 and Portfolio 3. It is 90% equities and 60 bonds.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But suddenly they find themselves sitting on an uncomfortably large percentage of their portfolio in a single name. To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio Let’s bring in Meb Faber He’s the founder and chief investment officer of Cambria. Perhaps they have some founder stock from a startup.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like as a real estate person, you walk through your assets, you can touch and feel things. Essentially you buy assets. It could be all kinds of assets. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. market volatility. Tell us about that.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. Eventually leading her to a point where she’s managing quants, running about a hundred billion dollars in assets. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. But that was Linda’s career path.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 27, 2022

In my ongoing quest to redefine portfolio construction, I've mentioned labeling asset classes based on their attributes versus just their proper names like growth which could include more than just equities or inflation protected which could include more than just TIPS and so on.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They run over $800 billion in client assets, and Kristen’s group, the North American Group, is responsible for about half of the revenue that that massive organization generates. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

What's included with net worth Net worth includes your assets and your liabilities. Subtract your liabilities from your assets to get your net worth. Your assets include everything from the cash in your bank accounts to the value of your stock portfolios and the market value of anything tangible that you own such as a house or a car.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Based on the title, it would seem to be in the neighborhood of creating an all-weather portfolio which we've looked at in several different forms over the course of my full 19 years of blogging.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. So I was at Harvard.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I don't see the diversification benefit which as an ongoing theme forces us to think differently about how to build a 60/40 portfolio. It is important to understand the math though. No portfolio concept can always be best. Any valid idea you come up with for your portfolio will lag at times. That's a year to date chart.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Importantly, liquid net worth is different than your overall net worth because it only takes your liquid assets into account. In other words, while your net worth is the complete value of all your assets (i.e., what you owe), the liquid amount you own is only the total value of your liquid assets minus your liabilities.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 10, 2024

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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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A little more specifically the need for diversified portfolios persists with the implication that bonds are the way to get this done. This chart contributes to the logic supporting a 60/40 portfolio. As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% down to 0.50% let alone from the all time high of 15% down to 0.50%.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. So, so you’ve held analyst roles and a number of asset managers.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. With that said, I am always quick to point out that diversification in a portfolio is important (i.e., Source: Calafia Beach Pundit. Source: Edward Yardeni.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. What percentage of the assets are in ETFs relative to mutual funds? So fast forward to where we are today, we have over $40 billion in assets under management. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Risk parity equal weights assets by their risk (more like their volatility). Where stocks are far more volatile than bonds (usually), a risk parity program would have to own far more in bonds to equal out the volatility between the two assets. reassessing the risk/volatility of the assets held and reweighting accordingly.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 16, 2022

Evanson Asset Management. Asset tiers include all accounts in a household combined and the minimum yearly fee is $550 per household. It is important to note that this would only be a low cost option for larger portfolios. It is important to note that this would only be a low cost option for larger portfolios.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A more real world implementation is there are several asset classes involved and where the relationships between the assets are dynamic, so too should the allocations to the assets be dynamic. Portfolio 1 looks at whether putting the leftover 20% in T-Bills adds anything. So, could this be a way to use RPAR?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If at the start of the year, someone put 100% into the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) as a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio, then to employ a portable alpha strategy, they could use leverage to add something to hopefully make it additive to returns. So adding a potential alpha source on top of beta (the basic building blocks).

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The course covers an introduction to personal finance, credit cards, life insurance, health insurance, investment instruments, loans, income tax and planning, budgeting and building a strong portfolio. Also, you will learn how to plan your taxes, credit score importance and how to budget your income to create a portfolio.

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Darrow Wealth Management

MAY 22, 2023

So when the federal funds rate goes up, it can have an outsized impact on shorter term interest rates on assets like Treasury bills (T-bills). Again just using simple math, this presumes the par value will roll over each month and reinvest at the same rate to get to the annual yield. Compare that to the stated yield of 5.6%

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing. ADMATI: Yes.

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Darrow Wealth Management

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Using extra income or savings to pay down a mortgage faster moves your most liquid asset (cash) into a very illiquid asset (your home). On the flip side, not having a mortgage in retirement can be beneficial if it reduces overall lifestyle costs and how much you’ll need to draw from your portfolio in retirement.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 14, 2022

For the last ten years it's down about 13% but adding even just 6% per year back in for dividends, 60% total using simple math is a total return of 47% or 4.7% I've really been on a run lately in trying to dissect some of these funds with the long term idea of seeing whether they can play a role in client portfolios.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Really, there are a few people in the world who have a better sense of distress, asset credit, real estate, and how to not only do the fundamental research, but tactically trade around the positions. The buyers didn’t have the ability to go cross assets and cross, let’s say, ratings as, as they are today.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. Back to Israelov's quote, they can be a way to add volatility as an asset class, in this case through something that sells that asset class, that sells volatility. Covered call funds have many favorable attributes.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 9, 2023

Generally speaking, pensions are less viable than they used to be, the math doesn't work as well. Workers are not on the hook for managing their portfolios, don't have to manage withdrawal rates and have some security that their monthly check is what it is, maybe there's a COLA or maybe not but no surprises. Is he right? Is he wrong?

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 10, 2022

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