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MiB: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

Previously, she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein, CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. He was recently appointed to the Harvard Management Company Board.

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Asset Allocation Bi-Weekly: The Japan Problem

Advisor Perspectives

Just one day after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba likened Japan’s debt situation to that of Greece, the country faced its weakest demand for 20-year bonds since 2012.

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Just Put It All Into.

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Anytime I talk about letting markets work for you over the long term and the role that an adequate savings rate plays in financial success, I will usually caveat that with assuming a proper asset allocation. Ten years is a reasonable time period but someone who bought in 2012 based on the previous ten years really got left behind.

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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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SEI/AGB roundtable recap

SEI

Discussions covered a range of topics, including foundation operations, inflation and return expectations, processes for unspent distributions, asset allocation changes, and governance findings. Use of an OCIO has almost doubled in 10 years, from 32% in 2012 to 63% currently. 78% oversee special events (vs. 47% of $100-500M).

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No Pain, No Gain

Investing Caffeine

As you can see from the chart below, there have been no shortage of issues and events to worry about over the last 15 years (2007 – 2022): 2008-2009: Financial Crisis 2010: Flash Crash (electronic trading collapse) 2011: Debt Ceiling – Eurozone Collapse 2012: Greek Debt Crisis – Arab Spring (anti-government protests) 2012: Presidential Elections (..)

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Could There Be Any Hope For Risk Parity?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Here's how ETF.com describes the fund's allocation; Per the prospectus, the fund rebalances quarterly to fixed allocation of 35% TIPS, 25% equities. However, the Treasury allocation includes T-bill collateral for a hefty allocation 10-yr Treasury futures, stated at 60% notional. 25% commodities and 15% Treasurys.