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At the Money: Meb Faber on Tax Aware ETFs

The Big Picture

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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I Need More Leverage

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There was an article on LinkedIn (via Abnormal Returns) by Victor Haghani that dug into the math working against leveraged ETFs. As an advisor of retail sized clients, there's no reason to add the complexity of a 2x long S&P 500 ETF even if the idea was not to leverage up.

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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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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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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: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

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I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. Because the idea of syndication is that you make a giant purchase and then you sell it off in smaller units to really more of a retail investor. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it.

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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.