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Sunday links: poor listeners

Abnormal Returns

wsj.com) Strategy Remember all that talk about how the 60/40 portfolio was broken? awealthofcommonsense.com) There are a lot of different asset allocations you can live with. downtownjoshbrown.com) College-educated women with children under 10 are in the workforce at record numbers.

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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

First up was a webinar about model portfolios at ETF.com. The way my new firm is set up, I could outsource everything, for a fee, and the way this was positioned, I think there might be a decent number of advisors who do just that. I think that when investors hear about model portfolios they sort of think in terms of set and forget.

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The Frenzy in the Stock Market

Truemind Capital

I am also seeing an increasing exposure to equity even in those portfolios where investors have a very low-risk appetite. During times of euphoria and bubbles, a huge number of retail investors want to invest in the stock market. Asset allocation should follow probabilities of future outcomes along with risk profile.

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Is There An Extra $1 Million In Your Portfolio That You're Forgetting About?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There is of course the unpleasant reality that some number of people buying in will die right after the cutoff to sell getting nothing or almost nothing out of it and surrendering their investment. If you have a combined $40,000 benefit, that's like having another $1 million in your portfolio. The relevance ties into asset allocation.

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Portfolio Risk Management: How to Measure and Manage Portfolio Risk

WiserAdvisor

Investing your money involves a number of strategies and instruments. This is why portfolio risk management can be very critical. However, it is crucial to understand how to manage portfolio risk and what can trigger it. What is portfolio risk? In fact, it can be good for your portfolio.

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Implementing Retirement Income Guardrails To Facilitate (The Right) Spending Raises And Spending Cuts

Nerd's Eye View

And when it comes to retirement planning, one popular technique is the use of ‘guardrails’, which set an initial monthly withdrawal rate that can be later adjusted as the size of the client’s portfolio changes. If the portfolio balance declines due to excess distributions (e.g.,

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The Perfect Asset Allocation

The Irrelevant Investor

Although constructing a portfolio has never been cheaper, it has also never been as confusing. You'll probably notice that those two numbers equal 127%, which doesn't make any sense. You're never going to be able to have the perfect portfolio year in and year out, but at the very least, make sure you understand what you own and why.