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October 25, 2021: A Long Term Theme Or Trend Doesn’t Necessarily Yield Good Returns
We discuss recent hot topic: theme based investing and conclude that a mega trend doesn’t equate a good long term return.
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October 18, 2021: Dimensional Fund Advisors DFA ETFs
We look at Dimensional Fund Advisors recently convereted ETFs and compare them with Vanguard.
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October 11, 2021: MyPlanIQ Ultra Short Term Bond Portfolio vs. Other Funds
We compare our ultra short term ETF portfolios with several famous bond funds. Specifically, we look at DoubleLine’s bond funds.
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October 4, 2021: Asset Trends, Market Internals And Inflation Implication
We review asset and market internals and discuss the possible secular interest rate change and its implication.
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September 27, 2021: Newsletter Collection Update
Regular newsletter collection update
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September 20, 2021: Benchmarking MyPlanIQ Fixed Income Bond Portfolios
We continue review of our fixed income portfolios and compare with Trend Pilot bond ETF PTBD.
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September 13, 2021: Benchmarking MyPlanIQ Tactical Portfolios
We compared our tactical portfolios with some popular tactical ETFs and mutual funds including Cambria global momentum GMOM and Ned Davis Tactical fund.
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August 30, 2021: Invest And Speculate: A Sensible Alternative To Buy And Hold
We review a very sensible strategy that combines valuation and tactical strategies.
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August 23, 2021: Style ETF Portfolio Review
We review style ETFs and portfolios that use same as candidate funds. We also discuss long term performance.
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August 16, 2021: Smart Factor ETFs Review
We review smart factor ETFs and our smart factor ETF portfolio.
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August 9, 2021: Best Global Allocation Funds vs. MyPlanIQ ETF Portfolios
We continue to show that our ETF portfolios have outperformed even the best global allocation funds.
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August 2, 2021: Major Asset Trends And Market Internals
The review of current market internals reveals some big concern.
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July 26, 2021: Ultra Short Term Bond ‘Money Market’ Portfolio And Banking
We review our ultra short term bond fund portfolio and discuss how it fits to be a money market fund substitute.We also again discuss how to utilize a brokerage account for banking activities.
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July 19, 2021: Take The Challenge of The ‘Best’ Balance Fund
We examine the best balance fund, T.Rowe Price capital appreciation fund and discuss our confidence to outperform it.
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July 12, 2021: The Long Forgotten Bear Market Cycles
We examine S&P 500 index total returns in its 93 plus year history and reveal that there are many bear or flat periods that are longer than 20 years. It’s important to be cautious and understand that the current bull market might end one day and likely enters a long period of bearish or flat market.
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June 28, 2021: Resuming Growth Trends Chaotically?
We review major asset trends and point out that large growth stocks are again in favor. We also speculate that the current market rise might be the final thrust before a big correction.
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June 21, 2021: Stocks Are Not Replacement Of Bonds
We discuss why bonds are still important and show that our portfolio actually outperformed S&P 500 since 2001.
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June 14, 2021: Outperform The Best Performing PIMCO Income Bond Fund
We review and compare our bond portfolios against the best bond fund PIMCO Income fund and show that our portfoios have outperformed it.
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June 7, 2021: “Good” S&P Sectors
We show how to use ‘good’ S&P 500 sectors to build portfolios that outperform S&P 500 index by good margins.
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May 24, 2021: Newsletter Collection Update
We look at the FIRE Financial Independence, Retire Early investment portfolios and withdrawals.
