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Monthly NFPs Are Rounding Errors

The Big Picture

That is a significant number to recall whenever people posit we either are in, or just were in, or are about to tumble into a recession. but most months, the specific number is more or less a rounding error. It was that 157.087 million people are employed full-time in the United States.1 This is not a popular opinion.

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Old School Alts, Represent!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

With all the time we've spent learning about new alternative strategies (new in that they've become accessible in funds for retail sized accounts) and how to incorporate them into a diversified portfolios, I thought it might be worthwhile to revisit a couple of older school alternatives to see how they're doing through the current event.

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Random Roger All-Weather 1

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In Saturday's post we touched on all-weather portfolios and assumed a lot of overlap with the Permanent Portfolio (PP). All-weather and PP are in Portfoliovisualizer's dropdown choices for portfolios to study. All-weather and PP are in Portfoliovisualizer's dropdown choices for portfolios to study. I think it can.

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Barron's Loves Them Some Closed End Funds

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The basic mechanics of CEFs is they are exchange traded but unlike ETFs which create or redeem shares based on money coming and going, CEFs have a fixed number of shares so open market buying and selling can cause the market price of the fund to deviate widely from the net asset value (NAV), the actual value of the holdings.

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At the Money: Is War Good for Markets?

The Big Picture

I’m Barry Ritholtz, and on today’s edition of At the Money, we’re gonna discuss whether war and inflation 20 somehow adds up to higher portfolio prices. So what were the numbers like after World War 1 and after World War 2? We’ve spent – depending on whose numbers you rely on – 4, 5, 6 trillion dollars.

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India’s IPO Revolution: Bullish Boom or Bearish Backlash?

Trade Brains

India’s IPO market has made a strong comeback this year, making it the global leader in the number of IPOs so far in 2023 and attracting investors to take advantage of the renewed interest in public offerings on Dalal Street. What do the numbers tell about IPOs? Is India experiencing an IPO boom? What does this indicate?

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jan’24

Truemind Capital

They like to talk about Bajaj Finance and not Yes Bank in their portfolio. Most of the time, even the winners account for very low weight in the overall assets, resulting in miniscule contribution to the portfolio returns. One can consider debt portfolios with floating rate instruments for long-term allocation.