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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

The only other years with a higher reading since 1990 were 2008 when the S&P fell 38%, and 2002, when it fell 23%. Why Jack Welch Wouldn’t Cut It Today : Bill George, a legendary CEO in his own right, says good quarterly numbers aren’t necessarily indicative of strong leadership. Investors Keep Piling In Anyway.

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ETF Democratization Continues

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The FT also said that Man Group, Gotham Asset Management, Ionic Capital Management and others were going the same route. Based on those numbers alone which go back to 1999, yeah, I want to learn more. That is not a bad result but might be less than you'd think when looking at the CAGR numbers. Here's the year by year though.

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Old School Alts, Represent!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Both are multi-asset but PRPFX obviously allocates to precious metals and where you see the two funds diverge, those divergences coincide with big moves in gold. The ten year numbers are awful for PRPFX because gold went down for about 4 years from 2013-2016. The chart does not include the 2022 bear market. PRPFX' path in interesting.

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New Year's Day Retirement Spectacular!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Keeping the same 25% in risk assets but going with ProShares Ultra S&P 500 (SSO) equates to 50% in equities plus then 75% in T-bills or The Vanguard Total Bond Fund (VBTLX). What about leveraging up the equity exposure with a 2x fund?

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Firearms Versus Bow and Arrows

The Irrelevant Investor

In his last year, 2002, he paid his brokers $14.3 He said, "Returns, although respectable, had declined in 2001 and 2002. I believed this was due to the huge growth in hedge fund assets, with a corresponding expansion of statistical arbitrage programs." Not all of these assets will be happy with market returns.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. It is an institutionalized asset class.

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The Bear Market That Nobody Talks About

The Irrelevant Investor

It's generally accepted that the current bull market began in March of 2009, which means that stocks have been running for 2002 trading days. Below are some of the peak-to-trough numbers that support this idea. I'm not on board with this line of thinking. I know it won't "beat" the market over the long-term and I don't care.