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Let's dig in some more on Permanent Portfolio quadrant style. Next is the allocation for the United States Sovereign Wealth Fund ETF that I made up a few days ago and next to that is my most recent attempt from November to recreate the Cockroach Portfolio which is managed by Mutiny Funds. TRTY is a tough hold.
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Optimism over lower taxes, a stronger economy, animal spirits, and strong earnings all were likely reasons for the surge. 6 million level we saw in 2018-2019. million level we saw in 2018-2019. A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. Hires fell to 5.3
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Investors of course love dividends but share buybacks and debt reduction are more tax efficient than dividends which are taxed at ordinary income rates. It offered no crisis alpha though in the 2020 Pandemic Crash and in 2018 it was down 13.5% 1 thing you can add to your portfolio to diversify returns and risk."
Our general view is that lower taxes, deregulation, higher fiscal deficits, and lower interest rates are all policies that tend to have a positive impact on corporate profits, which in turn support stock gains. The S&P 500 fell over 6% in 2018 as the Fed tightened policy, and the trade war was raging.
Torsten Slok blogged about how ineffective bonds have been in terms of providing any return or diversification benefits lately in the context of a 60/40 portfolio. The third portfolio is just the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX). Despite all the leverage, Portfolio 1 has a very smooth ride including up a lot in 2022.
First up, Phillip Toews who runs an asset management shop and who wrote a book about about behavioral portfolio construction wrote about understanding market history and a section on how to build robust portfolio that reads like he could have outsourced that part of the article to me. That is buying low.
I added SH for clients a little while and have been holding BTAL for them and personally since 2018. If things really get crazy (bad) for stocks then I would expect the first responders to continue to go up in price, growing to neutralize more of the portfolio and clients who take income out have enough to cash raised to get by for a while.
I spent a lot of time Monday evening going down the Blackrock rabbit hole starting with their thoughts about adding Bitcoin to a portfolio which they say they're starting to do in their models. The Blackrock Opportunistic Alts Portfolio is more interesting. This model overlaps a lot with the next model. It has 77.5%
On the other hand, another stated goal is to raise 100s of billions of dollars of revenue from tariffs (to perhaps pay for tax cuts), but in that case you dont want import substitution and reshoring of manufacturing. What About Markets, and Portfolios? Thats not the case today. We just dont know how large and for how long.
A diversified portfolio at an appropriate risk tolerance remains the best path in this kind of environment. Thats the kind of portfolio that makes it easy to make good decisions during periods of market stress. A 40% tariff on their $10 of exports to the US would be $4, although US importers pay the tax.)
Note that this is one way a lot of Chinese goods making their way into the US have avoided tariffs (since 2018). Back in 2018, the Trump administration gave out subsidies to blunt the impact, but it may not be as easy this time around with the deficit already running high. Think of it like a one-time increase in the sales tax.
Our conversation here might be getting some mainstream traction from Barron's with the article The 60/40 Portfolio Isnt Doing Its Job. That would have been a more timely prognosis in 2018 or so but that's ok. It May Be Time to Ditch Bonds. If you're wondering, there's not much exposure to the fires in Los Angeles County.
One of the opportunities we highlighted early in the year in our 2025 Outlook was a big tax bill that boosted corporate profits, similar to 2017. We got massive tariffs first, and it was quite a struggle to get the tax bill past the finish line. New individual tax benefits that are set to expire in a few years.
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A portfolio strategy that goes narrower than a couple of broad based index funds probably has some exposure to dividend stocks already so the decision about whether to make any changes can be moot, you already have some exposure. To be clear, Portfolio 3 does use the portable alpha approach, it is leveraged by 40%.
All else equal, tariffs are a tax, and that means prices will go up. Lets look back at what happened in 2018. annualized in 2018-’19, below the Fed’s target of 2%. So it’s natural to think that the 2018 19 trade war didn’t have any impact on price. US goods exports were flat across 2018 19.
The odds of succumbing to emotion when a 40% position turns into a 25% while the rest of the portfolio is down 10-15% are very high. My current position started small in late 2018 and has grown into not a life changing piece of money but a useful piece of money. The next time Bitcoin cuts in half, what happens if it never snaps back?
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We work on theoretical portfolios here all the time that blend in strategies that really are negatively correlated or at least very little correlation. Both portfolios have higher standard deviations than the Trinity Replication but much higher returns. Enduring a bear market is about both, behavior and portfolio construction.
Long time readers might know my fascination with Nassim Taleb's idea about barbelling portfolios to concentrate risk into a small slice while having the vast majority in safe assets. What I am curious to see is if we can combine this barbell idea with the 75/50 portfolio to get a market equaling (or beating) returns over longer periods.
From the AQR site , QSPIX "aims to deliver attractive risk adjusted returns with low correlation to traditional stock/bond portfolios by investing in a broad and diversified range of alternative risk premia." So a core holding, I think that conceptually it could be risk parity meets the Permanent Portfolio?
Outlook for 2018 | Confronting the Unknown. Fri, 03/30/2018 - 11:57. sectors due to the recent tax law overhaul. As always, we want to avoid skewing portfolios toward a specific market scenario, because we can’t accurately predict which scenario will come to pass. the risk that a portfolio won’t grow quickly enough).
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2018-19 7.04 -1.87 Net Profit Margin is fluctuating due to changes in the interest and tax payments as the company business was subdued in the initial days. However, with an exponential growth in Net profits, CAGR growth cannot be compared. Financial Year Revenue (Cr.) Net Profit (Cr.) 2022-23 350.96 2021-22 161.5 2020-21 12.98 -2.37
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The portfolio constituents are labeled on the screen grab. I think that is attributable to a terrible year for 100/100 in 2018. Terrible year in 2018 or 2022? 2018 was still lousy and 2022 was very good. I am more open to RSST as a core position than I was but 2018 is a good example of how it can go poorly.
The 1987 crash was partly attributed to selling portfolio insurance and there was the so called Volmageddon of 2018. 2018 was not 1987 and if there is another event where volatility ends up being a major determent then it will be different than the other two but with some overlap. There have been volatility events before.
The idea of building an All-Weather portfolio of course has its appeal. The basic idea is to be much less volatile than the broad market or the typical 60/40 portfolio. It raises the question though of how much performance should an investor expect or be willing give up for the potential emotional comfort of an All-Weather portfolio.
Starting back in 2007 or 2008 I wrote about his barbell portfolio idea that goes very high risk with 10% of the portfolio in search of asymmetric returns and then very conservative with the other 90%. The returns generated from the 10% could almost be enough for the entire portfolio. Here's an example of the effect.
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Looking at AQMIX on your statement kind of going nowhere for 10 years could be difficult but clearly a portfolio with the allocation in Portfolio 3 would have kept up just fine and if they had focused on the bottom line number and not the line items, it would not have been difficult. 90/40 was down 1.56% and Portfolio 3 was up 3.25%.
Although the way we articulate these ideas has changed we've basically been having the same conversation about trying to learn how to better diversify the portfolio without giving up too much of the equity market's ergodicity, it's inertia from going up more often than not. The ride is obviously very smooth over a decently long time frame.
Portfoliovisualizer shows the annual decline at 1.55% but taking out 2018 when it was up 15% and 2022 when it was up 20% and it would have been noticeably worse. The 2020's have not been lost for managed futures so the same portfolios from 2020 onward. Here's the year by year. Obviously, the BTAL blend held up much better in 2022.
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