Gauss is the portfolio up for review today. The owner of this portfolio is not contributing significant amounts of cash each month so the re-balancing will need to come from dividends and interest income. Gauss is a very conservative portfolio as one can see from the low beta value of 0.27. Conservative is defined in this case as low volatility. … [Read More...]
How To Handle This Selloff: 18 May 2022
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points as I write this, how should investors handle this selloff? Let's take a simple example. These suggestions assume cash is available. Eventually the market will come back. As long as … [Read more]
Learning More About Options
This post is a follow-up to comments/requests made in response to my recent post on "Protecting Portfolio Performance" (https://itawealth.com/protecting-portfolio-performance/). Understanding Options can be a difficult subject - but understanding … [Read more]
Activities This Week
This week looks to be a quiet one as only the Kepler and Franklin are scheduled for review. If the market continues its volatile ways, and I expect it will, I'll update a few other portfolios to make sure they are set properly for what is … [Read more]
Investment Policy Statement: February 2022
The following investment policy statement was developed by a retired teacher, with help from a financial advisor. INVESTMENT POLICY STATEMENT: Charles Ellis: Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing "[An … [Read more]
Response to Comments made by ITA member (John Shelton)
In reaction to my recent Rutherford Review post (https://itawealth.com/rutherford-portfolio-review-tranche-5-21-january-2022/ ) John Shelton commented and asked the following questions: "Thx for the very gloomy report. From a psychological … [Read more]
The True Cost of Management Fees
Sometime in the past I wrote about the true cost of management fees, but that blog post may have been deleted in the process of culling older posts. Regardless, it is time to go through the mathematics of management fees. Let's walk through an … [Read more]
Photography: Grass Valley Church
Readers who appreciate photography may enjoy viewing and comparing images of an abandoned church in Grass Valley, Oregon. Above is the original image as it came out of a Canon full-frame camera. No adjustments were made with this photo and as you … [Read more]
Hindsight is 2021 – A Year-End Retrospective and Lessons for 2022
Portfolio Construction The following screenshot tells us almost all we really need to know about 2021 – it was a great year to invest in US equities: The S&P 500 Index was up 29% on the year with 70 new highs on the way up and … [Read more]
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