Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I've been saying meaningful yield without too much volatility is what investors hope the bond portion of their portfolio will give. The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. Taking volatility out of a fixed income portfolio is fairly simple.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t. Kind of unique.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2024

Do the math on your particulars like what your various sources of earned income will likely be, how much your RMDs will likely be and so on. With more normal scenarios, really crunch the numbers with your accountant. Some goal, your number, is fine to shoot for but whatever you end up with is your reality. They want you to know.

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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? 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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

What income sources do you have like SS, investment account or anything else? Do the bottom up work, it won't take long, to figure out some real numbers. Simple math is that this person needs to save $23/yr to come up with that additional $350,000. But simple math tells you that adding $5000/yr likely won't cut it.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, cash equivalents are investments that can be sold for cash relatively quickly and easily while still maintaining their market value. A highly liquid investment is one that: Is in an established liquid market. Maintains a large number of readily-available, interested buyers. Investments. Cash can be: Cash.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Steve Sanduski

AUGUST 4, 2022

Charles Schwab just released their 2022 RIA Benchmarking Study and I decided to crunch the numbers and see what the data shows. Crunch the Numbers. With a traditional 60/40 allocation, this portfolio would have grown about 75.5% For comparison, a passive 60/40 bond portfolio, as mentioned above, grew at a CAGR of 11.9%.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

As a quick reminder, a 67% allocation to 90/60 generally equates to a 100% allocation to a 60/40 portfolio like you might get from Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX). For this post I assembled a less dramatic portfolio more in line with Krom's thinking. and that is the number I will assume. or 110 basis points more than VBAIX.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Here are some other numbers compared to the S&P 500 and VBAIX which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio. Very simply, each dollar invested gives you $1 of exposure to bonds plus $1 of exposure to managed futures, so there is leverage. It invests 90% in stocks and leverages up to get 60% in fixed income.

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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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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As I write this TBL, the S&P 500 is getting crushed and (using very rough numbers) is down 18 percent year-to-date. Based on the above, nobody should be surprised that 2022 looks like it will be the worst year for the classic 60:40 portfolio since 1937’s -22 percent. Using very rough long-term return numbers (9.5%

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I invest in buy-write ETFs that pay 11% or more per year in dividends, which pay monthly (so about 1% per month). Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. The WisdomTree PutWrite Strategy Fund (PUTW) has a much different implementation of the strategy and the numbers aren't great.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

While the ultra-high-net-worth population might indeed be able to live off their investments and the resulting interest without ever earning another dime, they also are likely to have a certain echelon of lifestyle that can still put them at risk if they don’t make good financial decisions.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science.

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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. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Kids that have an interest in investing.

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

Not only has she been named to a number of hundred most influential women in finance, I don’t know many people who have seen as much of this industry on the front lines as she has for as long as she has, and is now in a position to very much drive change within the industry as CEO. Natalie Wolfson is CEO of Orion. It was great.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are plenty of ways to increase the value of your investments, whether through growth in the stock market or entrepreneurship. First of all, remember that investment returns take time. Typically, you won’t see results super-fast when investing. How to turn 10K into 100K through investing in retirement accounts.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

Zhang presented data on three key indicators—AI company headquarters, AI patent filings and AI venture capital (VC) investment—to show that the U.S. But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation. Sharpened by both the U.S.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

Zhang presented data on three key indicators—AI company headquarters, AI patent filings and AI venture capital (VC) investment—to show that the U.S. But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation. Sharpened by both the U.S.

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Zajac Group

AUGUST 11, 2022

Does it make sense for your total investment portfolio? If the math suggests buying additional shares is the best bet, it may seem like a no-brainer to do so. However, if your gut, and/or your investment plans don’t call for buying additional employee stock shares, maybe you shouldn’t. How much better? 20). = $90,000 x.80.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

If you really understand the points above and really feel excited about them, you can drop the fear and stress out of your investing life, which means you will live a life that is both wealthier, and more fun. Instead of investing in a productive asset, these speculators were just assuming the recent momentum would continue.

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Aleph

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I ran a Guaranteed Investment Contract [GIC] desk at Provident Mutual from 1992-1997. Definitions: Guaranteed Investment Contract: A group annuity issued by a life insurance company. Stable Value Funds: Funds that buy investments that absent default, only appreciate, and thus act like a savings account, but with much better yields.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 1, 2022

Here's a quote I saw attributed to Barry Ritholtz: “The Best Portfolio is probably the one which sacrifices a bit of performance, but helps you sleep at night.” At some point I stumbled into what Jack Meyer, then CEO of the Harvard Management Company, was trying to achieve by investing in timber land. Cannot be done?

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022 mhannan Thu, 06/16/2022 - 11:30 Just want the PDF? We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. We inherently prefer actual cash flow.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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Clever Girl Finance

MARCH 6, 2023

Work as a grocery store cashier You could be a grocery store cashier if you're good with math and don't mind scanning coupons and small talk. You can charge based on the garage's square footage or the number of boxes you will need to go through. Wash cars in your neighborhood Cars can be a significant investment.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

That makes it very different from the US dollar, and it comes with unique risks that could make Bitcoin a good or bad investment, depending on your unique investment goals. If you’re looking into cryptocurrency for the first time, you may be wondering, “can I start by investing $100 in Bitcoin?”

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. Was investing always the career plan? So I was really investment banking. MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

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. Knowing your net worth and the averages can help you understand if you are saving and investing enough to reach your goals. Rowe Price.

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