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Old Concept With New-ish Name

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Quite a few years years ago, like maybe 15, I wrote several posts about an idea for portfolio construction from Nassim Taleb where he said he put 90% of his money in T-bills from around the world and then put the remaining 10% in very aggressive holdings with great potential for asymmetric returns. NFDIX gives the portfolio/index 11.2%

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization. The good news is no one event has a big impact on the portfolio. You, 00:30:51 [Speaker Changed] You know, the fascinating thing is I have a vivid recollection of a paper, a white paper coming out by professors Reinhart and Rogo.

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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

We wrote a white paper that was associated with it. RITHOLTZ: So I said something at an event where I had said to a group of young people, hey, if you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s, you really don’t need bonds in your portfolio. We did it not only for the U.S., we did it internationally. It makes sense for me.

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