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The Frenzy in the Stock Market

Truemind Capital

I am also seeing an increasing exposure to equity even in those portfolios where investors have a very low-risk appetite. Thinking about all this, I felt I had read about this and observed it in 2007. However, I would insist on following an asset allocation plan with discipline, which is unaffected by the emotions of greed and fear.

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Trend Following Says Commodities…But Nothing Else!

Alpha Architect

The analysis above highlights that we are in a rare regime when commodities are the only long asset with a positive trend. But we do know that post-1973 we entered a world where, for several decades (at least up to around 2007), both bonds and commodities were an important component of a diversified portfolio.

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How to prepare your portfolio for the uncertain future?

Truemind Capital

In this blog, I am going to give you insights on the important aspects of investment management employed by the best investors and how we can use them to maximize our portfolio returns besides minimizing the risk. Use tactical allocation to make your portfolio future-ready. Be Cautiously Optimistic.

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Wait, Maybe We Can Mimic Harvard

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Here's the latest about Harvard from Bloomberg that included this chart of the asset allocation. It's not that someone could not copy the asset class exposure, just that the return streams would not look the same and often, various forms of sophistication replication does not really work in fund form. Black is 2023.

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Bernstein on Bulletproof

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Based on the title, it would seem to be in the neighborhood of creating an all-weather portfolio which we've looked at in several different forms over the course of my full 19 years of blogging.

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Be Good Enough

The Irrelevant Investor

This fierce competition amongst asset management companies is driving down expense ratios, but investor's are potentially paying higher costs. Large Cap ETFs with over $500 million in assets, which means there will always be something in that category doing better than what you've selected. Portfolio 2 also has a 10% position to U.S.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. He’s a big picture guy.

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