McClintock is the Sector BPI portfolio up for review this morning. As mentioned in Forum entries, several changes occurred recently and even more since the update last month. Eliminating sectors holding a single share, the McClintock now is holding five sectors. They are: Materials, Discretionary, Staples, Industrials, and Utilities. McClintock Sector BPI Holdings Each of the … [Read More...]
Retirement Planning Mistake #7
Lack of Portfolio Plan Do you have a portfolio plan and is it written down? If you can lay your hands on a plan, you are a rare investor. What is involved in specifying a Strategic Asset Allocation plan? A portfolio plan will first of all identify … [Read more]
Retirement Planning Mistake #6
It is a mistake to think your portfolio is properly diversified simply because you have chosen stocks or index funds across differing sectors. That’s not enough. Investing across all sectors will not coverall asset classes, but investing across all … [Read more]
Retirement Planning Mistake #5
Investors pick individual stocks to build portfolios rather than use index funds. Our preference is to use commission free ETFs. Next to not following "The Golden Rule of Investing," the error of not using index funds is likely the biggest … [Read more]
Retirement Planning Mistake #4
Investors lack knowledge about the importance of asset allocation. Investors do not educate themselves as to the importance of asset allocation, and what asset classes tend to perform better than others over the long-run. I need not go … [Read more]
Feynman Portfolio Study: Final Summary
The purpose of the Feynman Study was to take a list of 18 diversified assets and to demonstrate how that list could be used to construct portfolios based on a number of different strategies: Passive (Buy and Hold) Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) … [Read more]
Retirement Planning Mistake #3
Many investors are too conservative at an early age. In other words, they are "stock market shy." Don't load up your portfolio with bonds when you are in your twenties and you have forty years to save. Let me illustrate this … [Read more]
Retirement Planning Mistake #2
Prospective investors carry too much credit card debt. This mistake is a corollary of Mistake #1. Stay out of credit card (CC) debt. Mistake #2 is not so much an investor mistake, but rather a mistake of bad management as it has nothing to do … [Read more]
Portfolio Construction: The Essential Decisions
William J. Bernstein, in his most recent book, “The Investor’s Manifesto” writes, “Before diving into the most important issue faced by any investor–the asset allocation decision–you will need to understand four things: save as much as you can, make … [Read more]
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