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Grading Exams

April 23, 2021 By Lowell Herr

How does one balance grading exams when teaching in an educational environment that prides itself on downplaying letter grades, while holding students to high standards of excellence?  The system below explains the model I used in my last years of teaching.  Were I in the classroom today, I would modify Plan A and implement Plan […]

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The Elements of Investing: Part III

March 29, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Chapter three of the Malkiel and Ellis book, The Elements of Investing, contains four parts, all related to diversification.  I’ve written about diversification of the family portfolio over on Seeking Alpha.  If interested in this argument, here is the link. Malkiel and Ellis write about the more standard ways to diversify a portfolio and I’ll […]

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March 28, 2021 By hedgehunter

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The Elements of Investing: Part II

March 27, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Chapter two of The Elements of Investing covers index investing.  When it comes to investing, nobody knows more than the market.  William F. Sharpe put is simply in an article many years ago when he wrote – The Arithmetic of Active Management.  I find it humorous that Sharpe did not use the word mathematics in […]

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The Elements of Investing: Part I

March 25, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis have written an amazingly simple and short book titled, The Elements of Investing.  This compact book hits on all cylinders of investing and the first one is the most important – SAVE.  This simply means, follow The Golden Rule of Investing. A Charles Dicken’s character, Wilkins Micawber, came […]

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The Golden Rule of Investing

March 17, 2021 By Lowell Herr

The Golden Rule of Investing is simply, “Save as much as you can as early as you can.”  The operative word is early.  William J. Bernstein lays it out in stark language in his book, “The Investor’s Manifesto“ where he writes, “Each dollar you do not save at 25 will mean two inflation-adjusted dollars that […]

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New Content Notification

March 13, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Several readers contacted me about new blog post notifications.  New content was not reaching readers unless they logged into ITA Wealth Management. This post is a test of a new plugin to see if this note reaches ITA readers.  If you see this post automatically in your e-mail, drop a note in the Comments section […]

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Portfolio Benchmarking: Looking Beyond Portfolio Returns

March 11, 2021 By Lowell Herr

In the process of cleaning up this blog, I lost some critical posts and a few related to bench-marking.  Fortunately, I posted an important article on this subject over on Seeking Alpha. Here is the link to one benchmarking article.  Check it out. In most of the portfolio reviews you will see data and graphs […]

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Where Did All The Posts Go?

March 9, 2021 By Lowell Herr

If you are pondering over where all the blog posts went, here is an explanation as best I am able to reconstruct.  I was in the process of deleting old portfolio reviews from back in 2013 through 2015 as they were no longer useful.  I was doing this in preparation of setting up a new […]

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Reworking The Investment Quiver

September 25, 2020 By Lowell Herr

With the majority of ITA portfolios currently recommending no new purchases, now is a good time to rework the investment quiver if you are not completely satisfied with either the Factors or Asset Classes that make up your portfolio.  Think through what asset classes or factors you want to include in the portfolio.  Below are […]

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