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Response to Comments made by ITA member (John Shelton)

January 23, 2022 By hedgehunter

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 perspective, what influence do these trend parameters have on the BHS

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The True Cost of Management Fees

January 15, 2022 By Lowell Herr

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

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Hindsight is 2021 – A Year-End Retrospective and Lessons for 2022

January 4, 2022 By hedgehunter

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

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Thoughts on “Dividend Income Investing” and other Philosophical Topics.

October 10, 2021 By hedgehunter

In a recent comment (https://itawealth.com/huygens-portfolio-review-4-october-2021/#comment-31289) an ITA member asked us for our thoughts on an article entitled  “8 Reasons Why I’m Not a Dividend Income Investor”. Before addressing these “8 Reasons” I first want to re-iterate the point that we make all the

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Constructing a “Core” Investment Portfolio : Part 3 – Risk Parity and Volatility Targeting

June 2, 2021 By hedgehunter

In the first two parts of this series on portfolio construction I have focused on simplicity in terms of the number of assets that might be included in the portfolio and the level of management effort required to monitor and maintain the

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Constructing a “Core” Investment Portfolio : Part 2 – Buy And Hold with Periodic Adjustments

May 30, 2021 By hedgehunter

In Part 1 of this series of posts (https://itawealth.com/constructing-a-core-investment-portfolio-part-1-buy-and-hold/) I described how a new investor (or an investor wishing to change their current portfolio structure) might set up a simple Buy-And-Hold portfolio of ETFs that requires little or no management. 

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Investing Rules Regardless of Investing Model

May 23, 2021 By Lowell Herr

There are a few basic investing principles that apply regardless of what investing model is used to manage the portfolio. Save early. Take advantage of the power of compounding and get dollars working as early as possible. Don’t feel you need a large sum of money to get

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Dual Momentum Investing by Gary Antonacci

May 21, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Dual Momentum is a combination of Relative Strength Momentum and Absolute Momentum.  Relative strength momentum compares the trend of one security with respect to another security.  Platinum members are familiar with this concept as we are always comparing the strength (price performance) of one ETF with another ETF.  Absolute

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