Random Roger's Retirement Planning
APRIL 22, 2024
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. There is nothing that says TLT must get back to the $171 dollars it traded at in 2020.
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
JULY 17, 2022
I would note that 10 years earlier, someone commented on my blog to "just put it all in Hussman and forget about it." There's other math about outperformance but also the observation that momentum is prone to crashes. You don't see that before the 2020 Pandemic Crash though. Here's the last year.
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Investing Caffeine
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
T he stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years 2019/2020/2021, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.
Walkner Condon Financial Advisors
JUNE 2, 2023
Alicia’s Experience One of my earliest experiences when I first decided to get into financial planning was participating in the Financial Planning Association’s Externship Program in the summer of 2020. Hannah put together a varied and diverse group of speakers that both inspired and directed my future path in financial planning.
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. To the extent investors, like the blog excerpt above, take out all the yield and spend it, that is a bad idea in most instances although we have looked at a couple of exceptions where it isn't a bad idea.
Mr. Money Mustache
MAY 20, 2022
But in the Mustachian Era (the years since 2011 when I started writing this blog ), there has only been one: the 2020 Covid Crash which only lasted about a month. A 20% drop in stock prices is called a “bear market” and they traditionally happen every few years, lasting just 9 months or so from top to bottom.
Clever Girl Finance
OCTOBER 4, 2022
If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! The national pet industry made over $100 billion in sales for the first time in history in 2020! They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers.
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