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At the Money: Managing a Portfolio in a Higher Rate Environment

The Big Picture

Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. We’re going to discuss how these changes are likely to affect your portfolios and what you should do about it. My stock portfolio is recovering. This is not the 2009, 2010 to 2020 period where basically all you needed was.

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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. financial advisers are kidding you if they say they are 'positioning' your portfolio for a specific interest-rate scenario. I found an interview I did with Seeking Alpha in late 2010 that made its way to NASDAQ.com. This is an important point.

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Passive vs. Active

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What’s obvious is that cheaper is better than more expensive; that there are inherent costs in managing an active portfolio that include more than just trading and taxes but research, analysis, PMs, etc. Morningstar, August 9, 2010. Concentrated portfolio risk. Russel Kinnel. Passive investing is: Marxist. Reached a mania.

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MiB: Kathleen McCarthy, Global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate

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The largest owner of commercial real estate globally, Blackstone Real Estate has a $565 billion portfolio and $319 billion in investor capital under management. McCarthy previously served as Blackstone’s global chief operating officer; before joining Blackstone in 2010, she worked at Goldman Sachs.

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The Importance Of Diversifying Your Diversifiers

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Mutiny Funds put out a paper on the hows and whys of using alts for The Cockroach Portfolio that they manage and that we've looked at a few times. Picture retiring in 2010 versus 2020. The S&P 500 was down 22% for the 10 years ending 1/1/2010 while the ten years ending 1/1/2020 it was up 189%.

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At the Money: Is War Good for Markets?

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Full transcript below. ~~~ Previously : Hirsch’s WTF Forecast: Dow 38,820 (September 28, 2010) Super Boom: Why the Dow Jones Will Hit 38,820 and How You Can Profit From It (April 12, 2011) ~~~ Jeffrey Hirsch is editor of the Stock Trader’s Almanac & Almanac Investor Newsletter. The answer might surprise you.

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Risk Planning

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Some interesting conversations and the like related to portfolio construction and the use of alternative strategies. Nomadic Samuel kicked it off on Twitter with the following portfolio in a poll, asking whether a simple two fund, equity/bond 60/40 portfolio made more sense.