Darrow Wealth Management

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Using extra income or savings to pay down a mortgage faster moves your most liquid asset (cash) into a very illiquid asset (your home). On the flip side, not having a mortgage in retirement can be beneficial if it reduces overall lifestyle costs and how much you’ll need to draw from your portfolio in retirement.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Anything related to the Permanent Portfolio (portfolio devised by Harry Browne weighting 25% each to stocks, long bonds, cash and gold) or any of the Permanent Portfolio-inspired modern investment products are always fun to look at. I wanted to circle back to the ProShares S&P 500 High Income ETF (ISPY).

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. With that said, I am always quick to point out that diversification in a portfolio is important (i.e., Source: Calafia Beach Pundit. Source: Edward Yardeni.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Indeed, a Roth conversion has the potential to generate greater wealth than a traditional IRA during an individual’s or couple’s lifetime, and it can play a meaningful role in providing tax advantages to heirs throughout their lifetime as well. RMDs from a traditional IRA are taxed as ordinary income.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Indeed, a Roth conversion has the potential to generate greater wealth than a traditional IRA during an individual’s or couple’s lifetime, and it can play a meaningful role in providing tax advantages to heirs throughout their lifetime as well. RMDs from a traditional IRA are taxed as ordinary income.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 9, 2023

Generally speaking, pensions are less viable than they used to be, the math doesn't work as well. Workers are not on the hook for managing their portfolios, don't have to manage withdrawal rates and have some security that their monthly check is what it is, maybe there's a COLA or maybe not but no surprises. Is he right? Is he wrong?

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Darrow Wealth Management

MAY 22, 2023

So when the federal funds rate goes up, it can have an outsized impact on shorter term interest rates on assets like Treasury bills (T-bills). Again just using simple math, this presumes the par value will roll over each month and reinvest at the same rate to get to the annual yield. Compare that to the stated yield of 5.6%

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

One of our colleagues, Ken Stuzin, likens portfolio construction to Darwinian Investing – it is about survival of the fittest. In a concentrated portfolio, it is the losers that kill you. What sort of hit rate should we then expect within their portfolio? 5 As Table 2 below highlights, this team appears to be seriously good!

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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. Back to Israelov's quote, they can be a way to add volatility as an asset class, in this case through something that sells that asset class, that sells volatility. Covered call funds have many favorable attributes.

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Yardley Wealth Management

JULY 20, 2022

We’d look at the asset allocations of their portfolios and whether they’re tax-deferred, tax-exempt, or taxable. The math is the easy part, but James and Pamela have never really had a conversation on what their dream will look like—or even to what extent they both share it. So—problem solved, right?

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Zajac Group

AUGUST 11, 2022

However, a down stock price might mean that you could score some tax breaks if you exercise and hold some of those ISOs. When the price is down, the move might help minimize alternative minimum tax (AMT). Controlling additional shares bought outright, coupled with a disqualified ISO sale, may result in a higher after-tax value.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

We try to remind them that rising rates, despite their inevitable short-term effect on fixed-rate bond prices, do not necessarily mean long-term declines for bond portfolios generally or for municipal bond portfolios specifically. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

We try to remind them that rising rates, despite their inevitable short-term effect on fixed-rate bond prices, do not necessarily mean long-term declines for bond portfolios generally or for municipal bond portfolios specifically. Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. trillion in assets under supervision. JULIAN SALISBURY, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER OF ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT, GOLDMAN SACHS: Thanks, Barry. And I think you will also.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s possible to turn 10K into 100K, but assets need time to appreciate. Let’s look at one tried-and-true way of multiplying your assets: retirement accounts. With Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs), you can invest your money in a tax-advantaged way. So keep that in mind: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

I published what’s called a comment, so like a very short one about this great tax law case with this guy who like won the lottery and then wanted to get his lottery winnings treated as capital gains. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? Matt Levine : 00:03:44 You know, I did. And he lost.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

If you see the IUL grifters on TikTok claiming an IUL policy is better than a 401k, or that is has upside potential with downside protection, a “can’t lost money asset”, or “privatized banking” you’ll know why the outrage is well deserved. Then how come it’s sold as “can’t lose money asset” and other BS claims?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing. ADMATI: Yes.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

What's included with net worth Net worth includes your assets and your liabilities. Subtract your liabilities from your assets to get your net worth. Your assets include everything from the cash in your bank accounts to the value of your stock portfolios and the market value of anything tangible that you own such as a house or a car.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KKR was the biggest with $400 million of assets and eight people. And Forstmann Little was the second biggest with $200 million of assets, and four professionals and they hired me in as the fifth professional. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? Do you do distressed asset, real estate?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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Bell Investment Advisors

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, those inheriting an IRA might be subject to the IRS’s 10-year rule, which imposes stiff tax penalties on certain beneficiaries who fail to withdraw the full balance of the account within a decade of the original owner’s passing. For example, you may want to consolidate the inherited assets into your preexisting accounts.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 16, 2022

Evanson Asset Management. Asset tiers include all accounts in a household combined and the minimum yearly fee is $550 per household. It is important to note that this would only be a low cost option for larger portfolios. It is important to note that this would only be a low cost option for larger portfolios.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like as a real estate person, you walk through your assets, you can touch and feel things. As it did, I worked for a very large syndicator right out of school, which was right around the time the tax laws changed.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. 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.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They run over $800 billion in client assets, and Kristen’s group, the North American Group, is responsible for about half of the revenue that that massive organization generates. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. That’s a really easy portfolio to create. RITHOLTZ: Fair enough. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency. What percentage of the assets are in ETFs relative to mutual funds? Discuss that background and how does that lead up to a career in ETFs?

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

Long duration assets are losing favour given higher rates act like gravity on the price of securities whose intrinsic value is based on cash flows generated further into the future. Today the Global Leaders portfolio cash flow duration in real terms is in the 15 to 17-year range using this calculation.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. New asset class for this type of investing as well. But it was very tiny.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You’re accidentally waiting into yet another quant controversy, whether you need both these characteristics in every stock, or whether you can have some stocks that are great on one and simply average on the other and the portfolio comes out. It’s about half our assets. This is like quant finance circa 1990. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

I think that the asset stripping that has also occurred, pensions, for instance, are sold off, overfunded pensions get sold off and that goes into the private equity firm instead of into the company itself. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? How about putting more of your own skin in the game?

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

No income, no job, no assets were exactly ninja, Sean Dobson : No pulse seems reasonable. We see it as, like I said, about 50 million assets and we’re modeling up the value of every home in the country, every, every week, basically. We’re we’re the quant shop in real estate, in the quant shop in physical assets.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? You can go get some turnkey asset management program. As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. How those pieces fit together is no longer a mystery.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And I said, Paul, I don’t know anything about managing a public portfolio, but the deal we made with each other. So we repositioned our portfolio at the end of 22, recognizing that there had been too many dollars that went into safety trades. He said, I overpaid for the asset. So here’s the math, Barry.

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