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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

First up was a webinar about model portfolios at ETF.com. I outsource compliance (have to), technology stuff (pretty sure I have to) and we brought our support person with us to help with things like RMDs, money movement and other administrative work. A few interesting things from here and there on the interwebs. That is probably true.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

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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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people.

Valuation 130
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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. We have a separate vehicle called the Opportunity Fund, where we sometimes write bigger checks into late-stage rounds in some of our portfolio companies, but not always. And we told all of our portfolio companies to raise money.

Valuation 293
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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? I don’t have — coming from a family business, we say we don’t have portfolio theory. RITHOLTZ: So I know we’re not going to talk about performance and returns because of the normal compliance headaches. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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