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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

businesswire.com) Top clicks this week What's the best asset to hold during a recession? morningstar.com) The 60/40 portfolio is flawed, but you need an alternative. wealthmanagement.com) The math behind savings rates and retiring early. financialmechanic.com) Concentrated portfolios come with a lot of psychological stress.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. Elizabeth Burton : Hi Barry.

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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

First up was a webinar about model portfolios at ETF.com. Outsourcing the work related to actually being an advisor would not feel right to me and I enjoy what I get to do including portfolio construction. I think that when investors hear about model portfolios they sort of think in terms of set and forget.

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Big Risk In Multi-Asset Funds?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

We've been seeing a small wave of multi-asset funds that use leverage coming to market lately. The way the math works, a 67% allocation to NTSX (Portfolio 2 with 33% in the T-bill ETF) equals 100% in Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for 60/40 and Portfolio 3. It is 90% equities and 60 bonds.

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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk. 24, 2023 _ 1: In particular, why average outperforms over the long run; Sommers credits not making errors (via Charlie Ellis’ “Winning the Loser’s Game”) but the nuance and math are fascinating. It’s utterly laughable.

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10 Monday AM Reads

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Yet the fundamental math of bond returns bodes well for 2023, our columnist says. ( Has private equity avoided the asset-price crash? Blackstone is the world’s largest owner of commercial real estate globally with a $565 billion portfolio and $319 billion in investor capital. New York Times ). • Economist ).

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Bernstein on Bulletproof

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Based on the title, it would seem to be in the neighborhood of creating an all-weather portfolio which we've looked at in several different forms over the course of my full 19 years of blogging.