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Trying To Learn From Risk Parity

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Risk parity portfolios are particularly vulnerable when their active weighting algorithms fail to predict shifts in asset correlations." In the same period Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio compounded at 10.89% with a standard deviation of 12.43%. The table/chart goes back to FAPYX' inception.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

The Big Picture

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. I’m Barry Ritholtz.

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Going All In To Solve A Retirement Shortfall (Part 2)

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

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. Where we talk about return stacking in portfolio construction, think of this as work stacking. 5000 per for 15 years is $75,000.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. Jeremy’s never really been a portfolio manager. Just really, really interesting.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics.

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Buying into Big Tech: Strategic or are we now the Greater Fool

David Nelson

Do the math. In retail you’re talking about single digit margins with little room for error. Trading in our main portfolio was not the smartest in the world. Bleeding to Death For the rest of that day, retail was under siege. Well, the street certainly didn’t like that and sent shares down over 8%.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. Initially I joined to help them manage their equity portfolio. It was the exact same trade. I buy everything.

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