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The Perfect Asset Allocation

The Irrelevant Investor

The five largest stocks in the Russell 1000- Apple, Microsoft, Exxon, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft and General Electric- are bigger than the entire Russell 2000. Likewise, the weighted average market cap of the Russell 2000 is 16% higher than the S&P 600, which both claim to track small cap stocks.

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Melted Rocks & Retirement Planning

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Get out a spreadsheet, list your fixed expenses, list out what you typically spend on discretionary stuff, add it all up and pad it by $1000 or maybe $2000 depending on how lucky you are/are not with one-off expenses like vet bills, new tires and all the rest of things like that. That's the number you need to cover.

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Market Commentary: Top Charts From 2023 Set the Scene For 2024

Carson Wealth

Source: FactSet 12/18/2023 Yields Back Where They Started Barry Gilbert, VP and Asset Allocation Strategist Nothing tells the story of the 2023 markets like yields, and the 10-year Treasury yield is a great reference point. economy, despite the skeptics. However, this may be changing.

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Investment Perspectives | Managing Risk

Brown Advisory

equity market’s gain since early 2017 has been concentrated in a relatively small number of sectors and specific stocks. Risks in Bonds In attempting to reduce portfolio risk by shifting assets from equities to bonds, it’s important to recognize that bonds carry risks of their own. Concentration: Much of the U.S. Many non-U.S.

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Investment Perspectives | Managing Risk

Brown Advisory

equity market’s gain since early 2017 has been concentrated in a relatively small number of sectors and specific stocks. In attempting to reduce portfolio risk by shifting assets from equities to bonds, it’s important to recognize that bonds carry risks of their own. Concentration: Much of the U.S. Risks in Bonds. Many non-U.S.

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What Are You Willing To Give Up In Pursuit Of All-Weather

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That period ending in May 2000 was relatively bad for PRPFX. I'd argue it all worked out in the end but imagine how you might handle being that far behind in early 2000. I don't know whether those weightings can vary but the numbers come off the home page for the fund.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

The term “active share” measures the degree to which a portfolio’s holdings differ from those of its benchmark, taking into account the number of stocks in the portfolio but not in the index and the difference in weightings of those stocks held in common. The Russell 2000® Index measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S.