Random Roger's Retirement Planning
OCTOBER 29, 2023
This year, its performance has it the top 1% of mutual funds but in “2021 and 2022 it was ranked in the bottom 100th percentile.” Here I am talking not just portfolio management but overall lifestyle, habits and choices and yes this does filter into my day job managing investment portfolios.
The Big Picture
OCTOBER 17, 2023
So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. So in 2021 was the equivalent of March, 2000, right?
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The Big Picture
DECEMBER 6, 2022
And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. We had really good 2021 in terms of inflows. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.
The Big Picture
MAY 9, 2023
So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. So that’s the kind of more investment side of things.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 29, 2023
But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. And my maternal grandmother was also home, and she spoke primarily German to me.
The Better Letter
JANUARY 11, 2024
That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. Broadly speaking, in 2021, economists wrongly expected inflation to prove “transitory.” Stop with the math.`
The Big Picture
MARCH 21, 2023
I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. But it wasn’t like whatever skills they taught me in the PhD. RITHOLTZ: Meaning what?
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