With the U.S. Equities market either making or bumping up against new highs, it behooves investors to consider risk management. Here are a few suggestions as to how I am working to protect capital. To illustrate these suggestions, I begin with a $100,000 portfolio managed using the Kipling spreadsheet and a portfolio similar to many […]
Dual Momentum Investing by Gary Antonacci
Dual Momentum is a combination of Relative Strength Momentum and Absolute Momentum. Relative strength momentum compares the trend of one security with respect to another security. Platinum members are familiar with this concept as we are always comparing the strength (price performance) of one ETF with another ETF. Absolute momentum or absolute acceleration examines the […]
Life Insurance: My Story
Low-cost life insurance is one of the top five investments recommended by Michael Edesess et. al. in their excellent book, The 3 Simple Rules of Investing: Why Everything You’ve Heard About Investing Is Wrong — And What To Do Instead. Here are the five recommendations in this book. Invest in TIPs (TIP) Invest in a […]
Investing Rules Regardless of Investing Model
There are a few basic investing principles that apply regardless of what investing model is used to manage the portfolio. Save early. Take advantage of the power of compounding and get dollars working as early as possible. Don’t feel you need a large sum of money to get started. Keep costs to a minimum. Morningstar […]
Constructing a “Core” Investment Portfolio : Part 2 – Buy And Hold with Periodic Adjustments
In Part 1 of this series of posts (https://itawealth.com/constructing-a-core-investment-portfolio-part-1-buy-and-hold/) I described how a new investor (or an investor wishing to change their current portfolio structure) might set up a simple Buy-And-Hold portfolio of ETFs that requires little or no management. The portfolio consisted of only four ETFs that were equally weighted and could be considered […]
New to ITA Wealth Management?
Are you new to ITA Wealth Management? If so, here are a few hints to effectively use this blog site. Find the Category “Beginning Investors” and read that material. Use Category to find “Critical Material.” Make use of the Search engine. Look for the little magnifier in the upper right-hand corner of the page or […]
Thoughts on “Dividend Income Investing” and other Philosophical Topics.
In a recent comment (https://itawealth.com/huygens-portfolio-review-4-october-2021/#comment-31289) an ITA member asked us for our thoughts on an article entitled “8 Reasons Why I’m Not a Dividend Income Investor”. Before addressing these “8 Reasons” I first want to re-iterate the point that we make all the time on this site – no single system will perform better than […]
Beginning to Advanced Investors: 4 December 2021
There are times when one needs to step out of the weeds of investing and take a fresh look at portfolio construction. Most readers of ITA Wealth Management have been with us for a number of years, some going as far back to 2008 when this blog was first launched. The basics of investing do […]
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