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What Should I Do If I Sell My House or Come Into An Inheritance?

April 11, 2025 By Lowell Herr 3 Comments

The answer to the above question of what to do with a sizable infusion of new cash has multiple answers.  This blog lays out one path for individuals fortunate enough to be faced with this question.  The following plan assumes one does not need this money for living expenses,

Filed Under: Critical Material, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 11 April 2025

April 14, 2025 By Lowell Herr 1 Comment

Schrodinger is the gold standard when it comes to passive investing.  This portfolio answers the question, “Who will manage the family portfolio when I die?”  This style portfolio goes by several titles.  The general classification is Robo Advisor where the portfolio is managed by

Filed Under: Schrodinger Portfolio, Passive vs. Active Tagged With: Passive Investing., Schrodinger Portfolio

McClintock Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 29 April 2025

April 29, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

McClintock is one of three portfolios managed using the Sector BPI model.  The other two are the Carson and Franklin, named after Rachel and Rosalind respectively.  During the recent market declines numerous sectors dropped into the oversold zone.  In other words, many sectors ended up with 30%

Filed Under: McClintock Portfolio, Sector BPI Tagged With: McClintock Portfolio

Millikan Portfolio Review: 1 May 2025

May 1, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Headline news this morning – “Trump’s tariffs have left businesses in a ‘state of near paralysis’.” Advanced planning is nearly impossible do to an erratic administration that is in the hands of one person.  A person who was not even able to make casinos a success. Based

Filed Under: Millikan Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Millikan Portfolio

Buffett Indicator & Shiller PE Ratio

May 2, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Canyonland National Park Over the last few weeks I’ve been setting Trailing Stop Loss Orders (TSLOs) for VTI, VOO, and SCHG when portfolios holding these securities come up for review.  The tariff wars are causing market uncertainty, but tariffs are not the only reason for setting TSLOs.  Erratic administration behavior

Filed Under: Critical Material, Portfolio Management, Risk Management Tagged With: Critical Material, Risk Management

Copernicus Portfolio Review: 5 May 2025

May 5, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

As I write this blog the U.S. Stock Market is attempting to regain early Monday losses.  As long-time reader know, the Copernicus is an equities only portfolio.  The management model is to save and purchase S&P 500 ETFs.  Based on the current administration generated chaos I am moving

Filed Under: Copernicus Portfolio, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Copernicus Portfolio

Bohr Portfolio Review: 6 May 2025

May 7, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Bohr is a portfolio of moderate size managed using a few equity oriented ETFs.  As with the Kepler, Einstein and a few other portfolios, this account is following a similar conservative approach due to all the uncertainties surrounding the unnecessary tariff wars. Bohr Security Holdings The Bohr currently

Filed Under: Bohr Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Bohr Portfolio

Huygens Portfolio Review: 13 May 2025

May 14, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Huygens is one of two portfolios using an expanded Asset Allocation (AA) management model.  The other is the computer managed Schrodinger or Schwab’s Intelligent Portfolio.  Over the past month the Huygens lost a bit of ground to its benchmark, the AOR security.  Most likely the AOR

Filed Under: Huygens Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Huygens Portfolio, Portfolio Construction

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