The Irrelevant Investor

DECEMBER 2, 2016

For the last 35 years, the classic 60/40 portfolio returned 10.5% a year. It's hard to imagine that these results will be matched over the next 35 years, which has a lot of people looking to alternative ways of managing a portfolio. Today I'm going to examine one of these alternatives, the "Permanent Portfolio," which was outlined in William Bernstein's "Deep Risk" (and elsewhere).

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Making More From Less. achen. Tue, 11/29/2016 - 14:44. The directors at many nonprofits today are finding that, by some measures, working for the common good has never been so tough. The budget gap for nonprofits has widened because of a slump in their three sources of funds—donations, grants and portfolio returns. Charitable giving to foundations in 2015 shrank 3.8% from the previous year to $42.3 billion, according to Giving USA. 1 Also, from fiscal year 2009 until fiscal year 2016, federal ag

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The costliest mistake 2% investors make is timing the market. They sell after losses and buy back only when the coast is clear. The problem is not just the money you leave on the table this time, but these mistakes leave behind scar tissue that compounds in our brains. It doesn't take long before we're unable to think objectively. Rather than viewing a buy/sell decision as independent from all others, we think about the outcome of previous mistakes and the regret we felt after buying or selling

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