Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The problem is that, in stock market investing, short term losses and gains are simply normal market activity, and we need to temper our emotions to keep things in perspective. On the other hand, other studies tell us that a guaranteed income from an investment is preferred over an assured return on investment over time.

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The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One of the more unsettling realities of investing is that we cannot rely on data from the past to guide us in the future. It's important that investors learn about market history and have a basic understanding of math, but beyond that, less might actually be more. In Enough , Jack Bogle wrote: Numbers are not reality.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 24, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. And you need the emotional discipline to stick with a reasonable investment strategy from manias to panics and everything in between. (

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The Big Picture

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor. Chart after the jump ).

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2024

Do the math on your particulars like what your various sources of earned income will likely be, how much your RMDs will likely be and so on. With more normal scenarios, really crunch the numbers with your accountant. Some goal, your number, is fine to shoot for but whatever you end up with is your reality. They want you to know.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024 bgregorio Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:23 Just want the PDF? Download it here Darwinian Investing: The Science of Rejection The outperformance of the “Magnificent Seven”1 during 2023 led to many questions from our investors (for instance “why are you underweight the Mag 7?”)

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

JANUARY 8, 2024

Investing involves risks, and investment decisions should be based on your own goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk. The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. What is it? stock market.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 31, 2023

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam and bs — and it could feel like the only place online that really mattered.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My process here for the notional values was that the multiplier is 100 so a put struck at 4100 would hedge $410,000 worth of stock, so then I just multiplied the dollar amount by the number of puts. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? With the 10 year at 4.2% 1987 Crash 3.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The term personal finance ratios might be giving you flashbacks to math class. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers to each other. Since personal finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways! However, their value tends to fluctuate more so it’s not a stable number).

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Matt Kory, Vice President, Retirement Programs As a retirement income vehicle, the 401(k) is second in popularity only to Social Security – and as CNBC reported in 2019 the number of 401(k) millionaires is at an all-time high. Just think of the numbers. People are living longer these days, and that number is only going up.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. That just isn't the reality.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

What income sources do you have like SS, investment account or anything else? Do the bottom up work, it won't take long, to figure out some real numbers. Simple math is that this person needs to save $23/yr to come up with that additional $350,000. But simple math tells you that adding $5000/yr likely won't cut it.

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

By Nick Maggiulli The fact that high beta firms tend to have lower quality and higher financial leverage is perhaps one good reason why the outperformance in bull markets is more than erased during bear markets By David Varadi Real math is painfully precise. Investment finance math is sales math.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, cash equivalents are investments that can be sold for cash relatively quickly and easily while still maintaining their market value. A highly liquid investment is one that: Is in an established liquid market. Maintains a large number of readily-available, interested buyers. Investments. Cash can be: Cash.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

The paper found that “Women who are outsiders to the profession do not see financial planning as primarily about: Communication Relationships Holistic Advice Instead they see it as about investment and mathematical expertise.” Investments involve risk. I think that idea impacts the topic of women in financial planning in two ways.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment was pitched as a nearly risk-free opportunity to earn annual returns of 50 percent by lending money to slip-and-fall victims awaiting checks after the settlement of their lawsuits.” emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

Invest For The Very Worst Of The Worst. That is difficult to pull off but if you do the math on that it shows long term outperformance. He makes a good point about not relying solely on math to assess markets and portfolio construction, that the psychology of markets is important too. I'm a sucker for this sort of article.

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Your Richest Life

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That number fell to 1.6 You should also do the math to make sure you have a clear idea of what you can afford. The bottom line As inflation falls and prices come down, major purchases like cars and houses tend to lag behind other smaller investments. The rate of inflation currently at 3.7 months in August of 2023.

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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. Where 401ks are cheaper for employers than pensions, an investment bank advising companies to do this argues that yes, the IBs could see the potential benefit for mutual fund companies. Is he right? Is he wrong? If correct, that argues no.

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Steve Sanduski

AUGUST 4, 2022

Charles Schwab just released their 2022 RIA Benchmarking Study and I decided to crunch the numbers and see what the data shows. Crunch the Numbers. Simple math says the CAGR of NET NEW ASSETS (i.e., Various assumptions are built into my calculations but there’s no doubt net organic revenue growth is almost non-existent.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As I write this TBL, the S&P 500 is getting crushed and (using very rough numbers) is down 18 percent year-to-date. The alternative investment space, however defined, is opaquer and generally exists over a much shorter duration. The FTSE Nareit All REITs Index of real estate investments has returned 8.01 The Dow is down 8.5

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Kids that have an interest in investing.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. They talked about how outsourcing model construction can save advisors a lot of time.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I invest in buy-write ETFs that pay 11% or more per year in dividends, which pay monthly (so about 1% per month). Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. The WisdomTree PutWrite Strategy Fund (PUTW) has a much different implementation of the strategy and the numbers aren't great.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Here are some other numbers compared to the S&P 500 and VBAIX which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio. Very simply, each dollar invested gives you $1 of exposure to bonds plus $1 of exposure to managed futures, so there is leverage. It invests 90% in stocks and leverages up to get 60% in fixed income. Not exactly.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2024

@TikTokInvestors: “Apart from his misleading arrogance and the inaccurate market statistics mentioned, a 401K is possibly the best investment vehicle for the average American. I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 17, 2023

It's more than just math. To make it a money journal, you also need to write down how you feel about all your spending in addition to the numbers. Get the best of both worlds: numbers and emotions. For example, you may never start investing or learning how to save because deep down you think you don't deserve financial wellness.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 10, 2023

As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% It's not that 60/40, or some other combination of numbers is bad or dead, more like how we build the 40 or other number maybe needs to be different. when the chart starts, down to 1.09% per Yahoo, after bottoming out in the neighborhood of 0.50%. in November.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are plenty of ways to increase the value of your investments, whether through growth in the stock market or entrepreneurship. First of all, remember that investment returns take time. Typically, you won’t see results super-fast when investing. How to turn 10K into 100K through investing in retirement accounts.

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