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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The title tells you the author's conclusion, Why Your Portfolio Should Hold Way More Than 30 Stocks. In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else. If a portfolio starts with 40 holdings each with an equal 2.5% Not too many I'd say.

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Pain is Part of the Process

The Better Letter

Based on the above, nobody should be surprised that 2022 looks like it will be the worst year for the classic 60:40 portfolio since 1937’s -22 percent. 3 Another study , covering the period 1983-2006 utilizing the Russell 3000 Index, achieved similar and consistent results. Things are no better overseas. The saddest. The wildest.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. And then in a fit of madness, I guess, at the end of 2006, the credit markets were pretty uninteresting.

Assets 290
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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Today the Global Leaders portfolio cash flow duration in real terms is in the 15 to 17-year range using this calculation.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And I would say that Washington was pretty interesting because we had gone and, and spoken to people in 2005, 2006, and to kind of let people know that there was something, these are, this is a trillion dollars worth of misprice risk. So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization.

Banking 143
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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

And this was back in 2005 or 2006. Now, they do have to disclose in their statutory filings with the insurance regulators how much of their investment portfolio in the insurance company is related transactions or related stocks or bonds or mortgages or whatever. MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds.

Insurance 143
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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world. But if you go back to 2006 point half percent sounds high. Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. Not, not useful.

Economy 143