A periodic newsletter collection update

We look at money market funds and their current yields. 

Momentum investing does well in the past year. We also look at MTUM, a stock momentum ETF and discuss the performance of strategies at various levels. 

We look at the recent commodity trend and discuss what to do in the current market environment. 

We look at the municipal bond market and argue that they themselves can be a good asset class. 

The inability to understand exponential functions can greatly surprise us. 

We discuss in details the market internals. 

We update total return bond funds and PIMCO share conversion. 

We discuss the difference between Treasury bills and brokered CDs. Surprisingly, brokered CDs are yielding lower than Treasury bills right now. 

We review our defensive conservative portfolios. 

We delve into more precise details to analyze Warren Buffett’s recent advices. 

We look at specific pros and cons of our strategic and tactical asset allocation strategies for 2018. 

We review the recent market trends. 

We examine the recent selloff and the price action around the Black Monday, 1987 to understand why it’s important to stay the course.

We are adding Prudential total return bond fund to our total return bond portfolios’ candidate fund lists. We also look at the performance of our total return bond fund portfolios.

The current bull market in bonds might be ending. However, investors should stay the course to take advantage of pockets of opportunities while managing risk.

We review our tactical asset allocation portfolios and discuss its relationship to so called dual momentum.

We review strategic asset allocation portfolios and discuss asset outlook for 2018.

Record high markets and high risk coexist right now. Manage risk tolerance level carefully and be disciplined and rigorous.

Short term Treasury yields have risen continuously. We look at the latest cash returns and interest rate update.