Copernicus, the all equity portfolio, is back for an update or review. I've backed off from investing only in VOO or the S&P 500. Ten of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 make up 39.1% of the entire index. Let one of the ten (10) sneeze … [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 … [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 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 … [Read more]
The Elements of Investing: Part I
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 … [Read more]
The Golden Rule of Investing
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, “ … [Read more]
New Content Notification
Several readers contacted me about new blog post notifications. New content was not reaching readers unless they logged into ITA Wealth Management. This post … [Read more]
Portfolio Benchmarking: Looking Beyond Portfolio Returns
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 … [Read more]
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