The Pauling is another portfolio undergoing asset allocation changes in an effort to both improve performance while providing additional protection against a major market draw-down. Interest rates moved up for the 30-year bond as there were fewer buyers. Higher interest rates do not bode well for the market. However, the U.S. Equities market continues to shed negative news and just … [Read More...]
How Risky is Your Portfolio? – Another Perspective
Last week, Lowell posted a blog asking the question “How Risky is Your Portfolio?” and reminded us that portfolio returns are a function of the expected returns from the assets in our “quiver” and the risk associated with these assets as represented … [Read more]
Retirement Requirements: May 2021
What size portfolio is required for a comfortable retirement? There are numerous variables to consider. Here is an example for our fictitious couple. We begin with current data on what the average retirement annual salary is and what the average … [Read more]
How Risky Is Your Portfolio? May 2021
Portfolio risk is a subject I've written about in prior blog posts. It is particularly important now that U.S. Equities are hovering around all time highs and we are entering the summer months when the stock market tends to generate less than … [Read more]
Risk Management: May 2021
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 … [Read more]
Grading Exams
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 … [Read more]
The Elements of Investing: Part III
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 … [Read more]
Protected: Modified Kipling Workbook with Risk Ratios
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The Elements of Investing: Part II
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 … [Read more]
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