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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

Meaning, you do not get the 8-10% long-term gains without living through a significant number of market events, ranging from cyclical drawdowns to longer secular bear markets, and full-on crashes. My portfolio was tiny; I had no 401k, and my wife’s 403(b), with less than a decade’s worth of contributions, was barely 5-figures.

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Back To The (Portfolio) Lab Again

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Bonds with duration are now more volatile than they used to be and that volatility is less reliable than it used to be making them a less effective diversifier for the equity portion of a diversified portfolio. The simplest example would be the person to retired at the end of 2007 and then 12 months later, the stock market was 39% lower.

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A Few Thoughts On Diversification Strategies

Fortune Financial

It has been my experience when reviewing portfolios that diversification is typically expressed simply as a number of various stocks owned, or owning a handful of asset classes, usually stocks of various sizes and geographies, and bonds of varying maturities.

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"Diversification Without Risk Management"

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

When they talked about portfolio allocations he said they want to have enough in managed futures to have an impact on the portfolio. He pegged that number at 25% or 33% but conceded even 5-10% could help. Portfolio 1 as follows Portfolio 2 is 50% VOO and 50% iShares 7-10 Year Treasury ETF (IEF). versus 0.24

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Resilience is Core to Sustainable Portfolio Construction

Brown Advisory

Resilience is Core to Sustainable Portfolio Construction. While the old adage “only time will tell” generally refers to a future outcome, it is apropos of our belief that a truly sustainable portfolio must consist of businesses that have proven to be resilient under a variety of macroeconomic circumstances. Wed, 09/21/2022 - 10:50.

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At the Money: Austan Goolsbee, Chicago Fed President on Tariffs, Inflation and Monetary Policy

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Austin Goolsbee. The supply side was healing on the supply chain, and there was a big surge of labor force participation from a number of groups. I think number one. Inflation as a driver of returns. It’s a very noisy series.

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New Year's Day Retirement Spectacular!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's has an article about how to protect your portfolio , er sort of. Basically, after a couple of quotes from William Bengen, father of the 4% rule, about his tactical portfolio currently being 37% allocated to equities, there are a couple of suggestions from William Bernstein about just having less equity exposure. Portfolio No.