Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

OCTOBER 31, 2022

These studies show that, given a choice between an annuity with a monthly income and an investment portfolio structured to provide the same sort of returns over time, if we’re near retirement we choose the annuity seven times out of ten. There’s no shame in admitting that factor – for a lot of us, math can be very tough.

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Integrity Financial Planning

JULY 6, 2022

Quarterly statements will be required to include numbers on lifetime income. Make sure your income is coming from a secure source, not the best performing portfolio. Look at the math to understand and believe it. Your 401(k) statements might look a bit different starting next month.

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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. Why wouldn't the fund have already blown up earlier this year when the S&P 500 was up more?

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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%

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. market volatility. What’s two plus two.

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Mr. Money Mustache

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

S&P returns (including dividends) since 2019, graph by the excellent portfolio visualizer website. Which makes the landlord business a lot less profitable, and we should expect exactly the same thing as stock investor: lower future profits as a percentage of our portfolio value. Its just basic math. 4.3% – 5.3%

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I've been saying meaningful yield without too much volatility is what investors hope the bond portion of their portfolio will give. The simple 40 year trade for bonds of "number go up" is finished and as a matter of math, can't be repeated. Taking volatility out of a fixed income portfolio is fairly simple.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 6, 2025

My 64 and 2 month number is $3049 which is where I get the $1524.50 number for her. If you will pull an income from an investment portfolio, what could go wrong? If that money is in an IRA, that is going to change your math considerably due to having to withdraw all of that inherited IRA within 10 years.

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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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Integrity Financial Planning

JANUARY 23, 2023

You might have a generic 60/40 portfolio that you expected to cover the rest of your income needs but that possibly needs updating after recent market activity. 3] So, it’s easy math: the less you work, the less you’ll earn. Regardless, Social Security can provide a helping hand with your income.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 1, 2022

Here's a quote I saw attributed to Barry Ritholtz: “The Best Portfolio is probably the one which sacrifices a bit of performance, but helps you sleep at night.” Barry's quote reminded me of another influence on how I try to manage client portfolio volatility and why I use alts (yes, that conversation continues). Cannot be done?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

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.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics.

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Validea

JUNE 14, 2023

The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. A well-diversified portfolio can help protect against the unpredictable nature of the stock market. With a current market cap of $2.8 times its current value.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated. I love statistics.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

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. Staying away from debt is also encouraged so you can keep your net worth number positive. It also includes valuables like art or jewelry. Rowe Price.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

As a quick reminder, a 67% allocation to 90/60 generally equates to a 100% allocation to a 60/40 portfolio like you might get from Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX). For this post I assembled a less dramatic portfolio more in line with Krom's thinking. and that is the number I will assume. or 110 basis points more than VBAIX.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Nigl’s bracket finally went bust on game 50 (the third game on the second weekend) when three seed Purdue defeated number two Tennessee, 99-94, in overtime. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ).

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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. That's not a real number of course as you'd expect new contributions to also grow. But simple math tells you that adding $5000/yr likely won't cut it.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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The Irrelevant Investor

APRIL 12, 2017

Hendrik Bessembinder An excellent piece from Bloomberg came out over the weekend, The Math Behind Futility , which looks beyond the usual explanations as to why the majority of professional stock pickers fail to keep up with an index. "Even if there weren’t fees and expenses, the odds are you’ll underperform."

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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. With a traditional 60/40 allocation, this portfolio would have grown about 75.5% For comparison, a passive 60/40 bond portfolio, as mentioned above, grew at a CAGR of 11.9%.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Maintains a large number of readily-available, interested buyers. Figuring out how to calculate liquid net worth is as simple as doing a quick math equation: Liquid assets - liabilities = liquid net worth. Don't worry—there is an answer to the question, "What is my liquid net worth" that doesn't involve solving math equations.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 14, 2022

For the 5 year bull market you could simplistically add 10% per year or 50% total in dividends and for this year 7 or 8% (six months worth) back in which changes the numbers considerably. The nucleus of non-gameover portfolios will always be equities. Yahoo doesn't show total return. Is QYLD any sort of proxy for the NASDAQ 100?

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 10, 2022

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Clever Girl Finance

APRIL 22, 2025

They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers. If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! You dont have to be managing million-dollar portfolios either.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If at the start of the year, someone put 100% into the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) as a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio, then to employ a portable alpha strategy, they could use leverage to add something to hopefully make it additive to returns. So adding a potential alpha source on top of beta (the basic building blocks).

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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. We've also looked at countless ways to incorporate a small allocation to covered calls funds to help reduce portfolio volatility, so using them as alts in a matter of speaking. Covered call funds have many favorable attributes.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Risk parity portfolios are particularly vulnerable when their active weighting algorithms fail to predict shifts in asset correlations." In the same period Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio compounded at 10.89% with a standard deviation of 12.43%. The table/chart goes back to FAPYX' inception.

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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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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. Based on the above, nobody should be surprised that 2022 looks like it will be the worst year for the classic 60:40 portfolio since 1937’s -22 percent. Using very rough long-term return numbers (9.5%

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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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. 00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

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