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Join The Bond Market Resistance!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

This blog has pretty much evolved into 100 ways to build a portfolio without bonds. The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general. I found an interview I did with Seeking Alpha in late 2010 that made its way to NASDAQ.com.

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Addressing Common Retirement Misconceptions

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

If the 4% treasury portfolio pays out $50,000 today, it will pay the same $50,000 in 2038 with no growth in account value. Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. When I retired in 2010, I had about $360K in a deferred IRA and $60K in a Roth IRA.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

WENGER: Well, we reserve a lot of funds for follow-on, and we have a very sort of, I think, sophisticated reserves methodology that we’ve honed over many funds cycles now, where we actually built kind of a Monte Carlo analysis of the portfolio to see how much money we think we need to keep in reserve. RITHOLTZ: Fair. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning

Brown Advisory

Background Since January 1, 2010, all individuals, regardless of income levels, have been able to convert existing retirement accounts such as traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning

Brown Advisory

Since January 1, 2010, all individuals, regardless of income levels, have been able to convert existing retirement accounts such as traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

The Big Picture

Let’s talk about what took place on the flash crash back in 2010. MARTIN: I tend to take the view that having a very balanced portfolio and knowing what you invest in, and investing for the long term is probably 9 times out of 10 the — maybe 9.5 RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. Let’s talk about some of those.