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Five Lessons from Meb Faber

Validea

The Ancient Wisdom of Asset Allocation Interestingly, Faber draws inspiration from a 2000-year-old investment principle found in the Talmud, which suggests dividing one’s portfolio into thirds: business, land, and reserves. This balanced approach to asset allocation has stood the test of time and remains relevant today.

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Negative effects of a prolonged bull market

Truemind Capital

Equity markets corrected by more than 50% in 2000-01 and more than 60% in 2007-08 which lasted for 1.5-3 Like the circle of life, good times are followed by bad times, and bad times are followed by good times, stock markets also go through cycles of excessive greed/optimism to excessive fear/pessimism.

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Negative effects of Bull Market

Truemind Capital

Equity markets corrected by more than 50% in 2000-01 and more than 60% in 2007-08 which lasted for 1.5-3 Like the circle of life, good times are followed by bad times, and bad times are followed by good times, stock markets also go through cycles of excessive greed/optimism to excessive fear/pessimism.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

So it was, if you think about insurance asset management, we have, you know, we obviously serve the group, but we have business units and legal entities and each of these business units and legal entities have their own strategic asset allocations. So my role was to manage those business unit and legal entity asset allocations.

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A Panic Sale Waiting To Happen

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

This is a little bit of a follow up to yesterday where I mentioned the Global Asset Allocation as mentioned in a paper by Meb Faber. Today, Meb Tweeted out a reference to the Atlas Lifted report from Robeco which references a similar idea, the Global Market Portfolio which is allocated as follows.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

You, you wrote at the journal through the.com implosion as well as the whole runup to 2000 September 11th, the great financial Crisis. I did it in 2000, 2002. So, so the 20 years you spent at the Journal really is a fascinating couple of decades. What era of finance did you find the most intriguing as a journalist?

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Endowment Style & Selling Volatility

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Based on Cambria's other multi-asset funds, ENDW will probably have fixed income duration but that's a space I will continue to avoid. Most of us of course lived through that from 2000 through to 2009. The S&P 500 hit 1500 in March 2000, then again in the fall of 2007 and then the third and final time in January, 2013.