A Wealth of Common Sense

MAY 29, 2025

We also touched on questions from our audience about holding stocks in your emergency fund, the best way to pay for home renovations, how teachers should factor pensions into their retirement plans and some of my favorite fiction book series.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 4, 2025

By now you've heard that Warren Buffett plans to step down at the end of the year. The more someone trades, the more they are fighting that natural inertia other than proper asset allocation targets and mitigating sequence of return risk when relevant.

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Zoe Financial

MARCH 21, 2025

Published: March 21st, 2025 Reading Time: 6 minutes Written by: The Zoe Team Managing wealth involves more than just investingit requires careful planning, strategic decision-making, and a long-term vision. Estate Planning : Ensuring your wealth is passed on according to your wishes. Optimizing tax-efficient retirement income.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The first example to look at they call Leverage In The Strategic Asset Allocation via this table in the paper. The paper introduces the idea of mixing momentum and value in some combo that they never quantified as a possible substitute for low volatility before digging in more deeply into different examples or cases.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 20, 2025

The asset allocation was 10% to hedges, 30% to T-bills for asymmetry but that seems more like optionality to me, 9% to edges which included one broad stock picking ETF, a derivative income fund and a short volatility product. None of them were hideously wrong out of the blocks but it's too soon to declare victory with them.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 1, 2025

Other than having the proper asset allocation and addressing sequence of return risk when relevant, I would not want to get too aggressive, like selling 95% of my stocks, trying to fight that inertia. What if it jumped 10%, he got back in and then it fell 30% and then traded sideways? The chart is the S&P 500 going back 40 years.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 22, 2024

GAA stands for Global Asset Allocation and it has been lagging for 15 years. The TLDR is that the basic building blocks for how to build a diversified have lagged badly behind the S&P 500 for a long time causing frustration for some investors. Here's a great chart to illustrate the point. GAA consistently had smaller drawdowns.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This is a little bit of a follow up to yesterday where I mentioned the Global Asset Allocation as mentioned in a paper by Meb Faber. Today, Meb Tweeted out a reference to the Atlas Lifted report from Robeco which references a similar idea, the Global Market Portfolio which is allocated as follows.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

There's no fact sheet yet and while the holdings are available, the asset allocation is vague without calculating the spreadsheet yourself which I did (hopefully correctly). Offering diversified exposure to U.S. Treasuries, real estate, gold, and agricultural commodities."

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A crucial point of understanding for navigating any sort of adverse market event regardless of whether there is visibility for it or if it comes out of left field is to have the proper asset allocation for your circumstance. Then it really doesn't matter at all what the stock market does over the next little bit.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 21, 2025

One of the pre-market Bloomberg emails gave a positive mention to the Cambria Global Asset Allocation ETF (GAA) because it is up in what of course has been a tough tape for equities this year. It is an interesting asset allocation that targets 40% in equities, 40% in fixed income and 20% in alternatives.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Right or wrong, I think of endowment style investing as being a similar to the Permanent Portfolio, not so much quadrants but more like disparate asset class segments which gets us to a paper about endowment asset allocation from True North Institute.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 22, 2025

The starting point today is the that Rational ReSolve Adaptive Asset Allocation Fund (RDMIX) has gone through a strategy change, renaming as the ReturnStacked Balanced Allocation & Systematic Macro Fund and keeping the same symbol. " balanced allocation and $1 of exposure to a systematic macro strategy."

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WiserAdvisor

JUNE 11, 2025

An advisor can help you adjust your asset allocation within your 401(k). A personalized retirement plan can help account for inflation, market volatility, and your shorter time horizon. You must make room in your budget for these rising costs to keep your retirement planning on track.

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Discipline Funds

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The end of the year is an ideal time to start planning for the year ahead and make sure youre on target to achieve those goals. Asset and Liability Matching. Good financial planning is all about asset and liability matching across time. A financial plan with an asset liability mismatch is likely to fail over time.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Based on Cambria's other multi-asset funds, ENDW will probably have fixed income duration but that's a space I will continue to avoid. The results. The returns of both the unleveraged and leveraged versions are good but there is a good bit of volatility.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 30, 2025

The prompt was a mention of the Cambria Global Asset Allocation ETF (GAA) somewhere and since the market has done so poorly, I though it would be worth revisiting. I'll close out with an update on The United States Sovereign Wealth ETF that I made up and first wrote about on March 5.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

MDCEX is in Morningstar's Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) category and the Fidelity info page for the fund offers the following comparison to other funds. The respective yields of the three funds are 9.9% with 38% leverage, 9.02% with no leverage information provided and 8.91% with 23% leverage.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

I found their asset allocation and wanted to see from the top down if there's a way to mimic them to some extent and get decent results. A few different things today. First, the Alberta Investment Management Company, the province's public pension system, cleaned house due to poor performance. Here's how I built the portfolio.

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Talon Wealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Retirement planning is a critical part of financial security that many women still overlook. However, remember that as a woman, you have a longer life expectancy than a man, which means retirement planning is even more important. Plan your investments. Consider early retirement tax planning.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 14, 2024

Also in industry news this week: While an infusion of Private Equity (PE) capital has shaken up the RIA M&A market, the ultimate implications for advisors, their clients, and the PE firms themselves remain unclear A recent study has found that a significant portion of 'DIY' investors are open to working with a human advisor (and paying for the (..)

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

AUGUST 18, 2022

I've talked about my asset allocation before being overwhelmingly in cash or cash proxies, about 25% in "normal" equity investments, my exposure to crypto these days might be 2-3% up from 1/2 of a percent from when I bought Bitcoin in late 2018 but down from 6-7% when Bitcoin was higher.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 4, 2023

Financial advisors have a wide range of strategies at their disposal to create financial plans for their clients. 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.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

JUNE 13, 2022

Assuming that you have a financial plan with an investment strategy in place there is really nothing to do at this point. Ideally you’ve been rebalancing your portfolio along the way and your asset allocation is largely in line with your plan and your risk tolerance. Do nothing. Focus on risk. Look for bargains.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Allocating retirement planning I introduce asset allocation with clients by dividing retirement life into two parts: basic life and high-quality life. These basic things must be planned with a certain income. After showing them that breakdown, I discuss the details of asset allocation.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Further Reading: Planning For Early Retirement 1As.

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Nationwide Financial

JANUARY 25, 2023

Last year’s considerable losses and market fluctuations underscore the need for clients to assess their retirement plans to ensure it aligns with their objectives, financial situations, timelines, and attitudes toward market volatility. You can help them start the year right by conducting a retirement checkup.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This is the time to review your portfolio allocation and rebalance if needed. For example, your plan might call for a 60% allocation to stocks but with the gains that stocks have experienced you might now be at 70% or more. Financial Planning is vital. Learn from the past . Photo credit: Phillip Taylor PT.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Rather I suggest an investment strategy that incorporates some basic blocking and tackling: A financial plan should be the basis of your strategy. Perhaps it’s time to rebalance and to rethink your ongoing asset allocation. Take stock of where you are. Take stock of where you are. Costs matter. Photo credit: Flickr.

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Cordant Wealth Partners

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This article will discuss the key features of the Microsoft 401(k) plan, and after reading it, you should leave with a clear game plan of how to: Maximize the match (free money! ) The key benefits of any 401(k) plan (including Microsoft’s) include: Free Money : A company match on your contributions.

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James Hendries

AUGUST 24, 2022

Planning for retirement can seem premature when you have only been in the workforce for a decade or so. But as the oldest Millennials begin to hit middle age, retirement suddenly does not seem so far away. Here are five things Millennials should consider when planning for retirement. Footnotes.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The set-it-and-forget-it nature of a workplace retirement plan is one of my favorite features. I like the ease and simplicity of 401k contributions coming out of my paycheck before it ever even touches my checking account. It’s easy to automate. Plus, I like the fact that it’s difficult to get the money out of these ac.

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Advisor Perspectives

JANUARY 20, 2023

Learn how our industry-leading asset allocation expertise can help participants make investment choices with more confidence and help employers reach their plan goals. Advice boosts workers’ confidence in choosing investments—from 35% to 65%.

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Darrow Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Don’t stress out about every headline, stress test your retirement plan instead.Markets move every day and the news cycle is 24-7. Stress testing a financial plan or retirement income goals is crucial to help ensure retirees wont run out of money under different conditions in the financial markets.

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Advisor Perspectives

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Offer more ways clients may achieve their retirement plan goals while helping address the diverse investment needs of participants. Learn about our industry-leading investments and expertise—featuring more default options and more personalized asset allocation.

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Darrow Wealth Management

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Your asset allocation is the percentage of your portfolio that you distribute between different asset classes, like stocks and bonds. To rebalance your portfolio, you’ll buy and sell certain investments to realign to your accounts with your desired asset allocation. Why does this matter?

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Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Meeting with a qualified financial planning professional can help you begin building positive and lasting behaviors.?? . Take Advantage of Retirement Plans and Matching Contributions. Employers often match a portion of this contribution to a retirement plan as an employer benefit. . Million after 40 years!

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