Abnormal Returns

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Podcasts Peter Lazaroff on what constitutes 'evidence-based investing.' awealthofcommonsense.com) The math on downsizing your house isn't working as well these days. wsj.com) Taxes 14 common tax myths including 'You can write off lifestyle expenses if you are an influencer.'

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Abnormal Returns

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

standarddeviationspod.com) Michael Kitces talks with Jason Wenk, CEO of Altruist, about how he is trying to build an all-in-one investment OS. theirrelevantinvestor.com) Taxes Why clients need to start planning now for the coming dip in the estate tax exemption. thinkadvisor.com) The IRS is hitting pause on new ERC applications.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Here’s your investing playbook. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Here’s your investing playbook. trillion in assets.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 12, 2024

Too many of us adopt A self-assured, know-it-all persona because we know the investing public prefers that to learn the truth: nobody knows anything, and the future is inherently unknown and unknowable.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This is before we get to the issue of capital gains taxes, which create a hurdle of (minimum) 20% on those pesky profits just to get to breakeven. 3 Imagine a private placement memorandum seeking to raise money based on “ decades of honed instincts ” as an investment model. It’s utterly laughable. By Jeff Sommer New York Times, Nov.

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Darrow Wealth Management

APRIL 21, 2025

While a Roth conversion may never make sense for some individuals, for others, early retirement years may be the best time to convert pre-tax accounts to tax-free Roth. Your current and projected future tax rate is often a main component of the decision, but there are other considerations and benefits as well. 4 key benefits.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Bloomberg ) • How Florida Beat New York : People are leaving superstar blue cities and moving to red states — its more than better weather ands lower taxes, its much cheaper housing costs. ( Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? technology into its search engine. ( Rieder helps to manage $2.5

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

OCTOBER 26, 2024

First, is the math right based on my numbers? They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. If we guess just 2 billion people, and that is just a guess, and divide that into the 15.2 How can it solve anyone's problem?

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Darrow Wealth Management

MAY 22, 2023

Should you hold cash or invest in the market? Attractive yields on savings and cash-like investments can make it tempting to hold cash instead of investing extra money. Hold cash or invest? For those considering holding cash instead of investing, recognize that this strategy has risks too. 467% a month.

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

JANUARY 8, 2024

Investing involves risks, and investment decisions should be based on your own goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk. The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. IRS.gov, September 6, 2023 6.

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Darrow Wealth Management

OCTOBER 1, 2022

However, if the goal is to pay off a mortgage before retirement to spend would-be mortgage payments on other things during retirement, the math may not work out. Leverage is when your expected rate of return on an investment exceeds financing costs. After-tax cost of borrowing and hurdle rates. Don’t be afraid of leverage.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It's been a while since this sort of thing was relevant for my day job so something could have changed, weeklies didn't exist for example, but if my math is correct then it was way over exposed which would account for last week's decline in the fund price. Please leave a comment if I did the work incorrectly.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 3, 2024

There was an article on LinkedIn (via Abnormal Returns) by Victor Haghani that dug into the math working against leveraged ETFs. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 18, 2025

And checking in on the GraniteShares YieldBoost SPY ETF (YSPY) that sells put spreads on a levered S&P 500 ETF; Yes, that is a rough start, clearly, but interestingly the math checks out. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A million dollars breaks down into an annual amount of about $30,000 over 30 years (not counting taxes, etc.). Understand Your Plan The best kind of money isn’t old, new or even tax-advantaged – it’s  free  money! Two of the most popular are Traditional and Roth 401(k), which are primarily different because of tax treatment.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 6, 2025

. $6300 in today's dollars goes a long way for us, that's quite a bit more than our fixed monthly expenses but might be about equal to regular monthly expenses plus once or twice a year type expenses like property tax, home owners insurance and so on. If you will pull an income from an investment portfolio, what could go wrong?

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Diamond Consultants

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When it comes to the services they provide to clients, advisors layer in activities such as tax preparation, estate planning, and concierge services to not only satisfy growing client requirements but also to justify a fee increase or generate new sources of revenue.

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 28, 2025

CR: Tariffs are taxes. Anon: But tariffs can replace the income tax. from the income tax and the US imports $3T of goods. We’d have to tax ~85% of imports to cover that, but that would also reduce imports so it’s unrealistic and the basic math doesn’t come close to working. CR: The govt makes $2.5T

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2024

Part of the equation is that he is convinced that tax rates have to go up to pay for out debt and so converting to a Roth now before tax rates do go up will result in people ending up with more after tax dollars versus just going the RMD route at what is now 73 on its way to 75. This has been his thing for a long time.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Do the math, it would be a fantastic long term result but very difficult to pull off. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. Maybe the model providers don't really want their models to differentiate.

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Mr. Money Mustache

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Its just basic math. But what about other investing options? Its always fun to at least look around and understand the larger investing world. Every year they gaze out at the investing horizon and make a ten-year forecast (guess) at future returns. Now back to the stock market. What if the Earnings are Rising?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 30, 2024

We've gone over the math before that starting as late as 55 can catch a lot of the way up if they can afford to save a very high percentage of their income. Smart Asset calculates $70,000 gross income working out to $57,187 after tax. It is pretty clear that all age cohorts are woefully undersaved but, yeesh, I don't know about that.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. Starting with your undergraduate work. I have no family history.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

And don't worry if math isn't your thing because we've included 50 30 20 budget spreadsheet ideas to help you stay on top of your budgeting strategies. You start off with your after-tax income , which represents 100% of what you have to work with, and then you work out the different spending groups from there.

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Clever Girl Finance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And don’t worry if math isn’t your thing because we’ve included 50 30 20 budget spreadsheet ideas to help you stay on top of your budgeting strategies. You start off with your after-tax income, which represents 100% of what you have to work with, and then you work out the different spending groups from there.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The term personal finance ratios might be giving you flashbacks to math class. Start by adding up all your regular income from jobs, side gigs, investment income, etc. You can choose whether to use a gross figure or your actual take-home pay after taxes. Your monthly savings ratio would be $500/$2,500 = 20% savings rate.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. Taking volatility out of a fixed income portfolio is fairly simple.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. They invest primarily in private and public companies. 00:08:24 [Speaker Changed] No, in fact, that, in fact, I think they were still investing money off their balance sheet called FC Capital. Fiaco Cutler Capital.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Simple math, it looks like the carry index has compounded at less than 3%. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. This next chart from Bloomberg compares just the carry component of the FOXY fund to the S&P 500 and T-Bills.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 22, 2024

Jason Zweig wrote an article titled How Not to Invest in the Bond Market. The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general. The title of course piqued my interest.

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Clever Girl Finance

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Figure out how much money you make in after-tax income. More accurately, 70% of your take-home pay, or net income after taxes, not pre-tax income. Once you know your weekly or monthly income, you can do the simple math of calculating how much 70% would be. 401(k)s offer the opportunity to save for retirement before taxes.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024 bgregorio Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:23 Just want the PDF? Download it here Darwinian Investing: The Science of Rejection The outperformance of the “Magnificent Seven”1 during 2023 led to many questions from our investors (for instance “why are you underweight the Mag 7?”)

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. You wouldn’t be surprised to learn the tax consequences of owning a mutual fund is a part of it. And so the average investor is unaware of them.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

These items for us include things like propane delivery (we could pay monthly), property tax and so on. What income sources do you have like SS, investment account or anything else? Simple math is that this person needs to save $23/yr to come up with that additional $350,000. I just used the word spreadsheet.

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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? Fortunately, we do 10-year forecasts for each investment and we can use our base case ranges to estimate probable future annual cash flows. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. Aren’t they?

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