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Lazy Portfolios in Different Market Conditions
Understanding how lazy portfolios perform under different circumstances and concepts like maximum drawdown , rolling returns , and asset allocatio can help you navigate through various market cycles.
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Tax-Efficient Lazy Portfolios
Lazy portfolio tax strategy can help to enhance after-tax returns for taxable investment accounts. While tax-deferred accounts like IRAs or 401(k)s eliminate immediate tax concerns, taxable accounts require careful consideration of tax efficiency to maximize long-term wealth accumulation.
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Lazy Portfolios for Retirement Investing
For retirement investors, lazy portfolios can serve as a good tool for their IRAs, 401(k) and taxable investment accounts. This article discusses how to utilize lazy portfolios for these retirement investing accounts.
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How to Implement a Lazy Portfolio
Implementing a lazy portfolio doesn’t require advanced knowledge or constant attention. Whether you choose mutual funds or ETFs, rebalance annually or less frequently, or tweak allocations based on changing needs, the principles remain the same: keep costs low, stay diversified, and let time work in your favor.
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What Are Lazy Portfolios?
Investing can be intimidating. It’s a complex and time-consuming endeavor. This is especially true for beginners. , Lazy portfolios offer an appealing solution for this group of people. A lazy portfolio is a straightforward investment strategy designed to require minimal effort and oversight while aiming to deliver solid long-term returns.
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IRAs as One of the Emergency Fund Sources
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: Back-and-forth Tariff Policies, Stock Market Swings, and Low Retirement Savings Rates
- IRAs as One of the Emergency Fund Sources
- The Gotcha in Maximum Solo 401(k) or SEP IRA Contribution Limits
- Market Overview
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Special Issue: Staying the Course Amid Market Turmoil
In this special issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: Market Turmoil, Majority of Americans Invest in Stocks, …
- Staying the Course Amid Market Turmoil
- Tools & Tips: Longest S&P 500 Losses (Drawdowns)
- Market Overview
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The ABCs of Roth Conversions: Backdoor, Mega Backdoor, and More
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: Tariff Liberation Day, Beefing Up Emergency Savings, and Consumer Confidence at Its Lowest
- The ABCs of Roth Conversions: Backdoor, Mega Backdoor, and More
- Tools & Tips: Social Security Income Calculation Infographic
- Market Overview
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Paying Off Debt or Funding Retirement? How to Decide When Every Dollar Counts
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: 401(k) Millionaires Save More, Spring Financial Cleaning
- Paying Off Debt or Funding Retirement? How to Decide When Every Dollar Counts
- Paying off Debt or Investing Calculator
- Market Overview
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The Right Way to Withdraw from Your 401(k) Without Regret
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: $1.5 Million’s Retirement Mileage Across Various States, Therapy Needed in Market Turmoil
- The Right Way to Withdraw from Your 401(k) Without Regret
- Credit Card Debt Consolidation Calculator
- Market Overview
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Maximize Your Cash Returns
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: Inflation Pressure and 401(k) as Rainy-Day Fund
- Maximize Your Cash Returns
- Good Funds: Capital Group ETFs
- Market Overview
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Roth IRA for Kids? SEP IRA for Rental Income?
In this issue:
- News & Tips You Can Use: 5 Tax Tips For Tax Filing Season
- 6 Ways to Cope in Your Retirement Savings & Spending Under the Current DOGE, Tariff Regime
- Backdoor Roth IRA Pro-Rata Conversion Calculator
- Market Overview
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6 Ways to Cope in Your Retirement Savings & Spending Under the Current DOGE, Tariff Regime
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance: Tax Season, Regulations Relaxed, Low Housing Affordability
- 6 Ways to Cope in Your Retirement Savings & Spending Under the Current DOGE, Tariff Regime
- 401k Early Withdrawal Cost Calculator
- Market Overview
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Outsaving Regular Workers: How Gig Workers & Entrepreneurs Can Save 3x More for Retirement—Up to $70K Tax-Deferred!
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance
- Outsaving Regular Workers: How Gig Workers & Entrepreneurs Can Save 3x More for Retirement—Up to $70K Tax-Deferred!
- Solo 401(k) Maximum Contribution Calculator
- Market Overview
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The Hidden Benefit of Emergency Savings Accounts: It’s a ‘Regular’ Savings Account with Free Employer Match
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance
- One Percent Difference: Fees and Growth
- Asset Allocation Calculator
- Market Overview
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Maximizing Your Savings & Investments: The Power of 1% Over Time
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance
- One Percent Difference: Fees and Growth
- Fee Calculator
- Market Overview
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Dividend Income Investments: Benefits and Pitfalls
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance
- Dividend Income Investments: Benefits and Pitfalls
- Dividend Income Calculator for Stocks, ETFs, and Mutual Funds
- Market Overview
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Rule of Thumb: The 50/30/20 Budget Rule
In this issue:
- Latest in Retirement Savings & Personal Finance
- Rule of Thumb: The 50/30/20 Budget Rule
- Simple Budget Calculator
- Market Overview
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9 Lessons From Retirees’ Biggest Retirement Regrets
In this issue:
- 9 Lessons From Retirees’ Biggest Retirement Regrets
- Returns of MyPlanIQ Core Model Portfolios
- Portfolio Simulator (Calculator)
- Lazy Portfolios: Simple Templates for 401(k) and IRA Investments
- Market Overview
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Retirement Savings Tracker and Future ‘Pension’ Estimator
In this issue:
- Gen X’s Retirement Savings Shortfall
- Introducing Retirement Savings Tracker & Future ‘Pension’ Estimator
- Retirement Savings Tracker
- Most Popular Bond Funds in 401(k) Plans
- Market Overview
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Smart Rules of Thumb to Manage Your Personal Debts
In this issue:
- Student Loan Payoff and 401(k) Match
- Smart Rules of Thumb to Manage Your Personal Debts
- Savings Goal Calculator: Payoff Debt and Save More
- Most Popular Bond Funds in 401(k) Plans
- Market Overview
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Health Insurance Costs Far Outpace Inflation: How to Protect Your Retirement Savings
In this issue:
- Medicare Cost Increases for 2025 & Ever Rising Health Insurance Cost
- How to Safeguard Your Retirement Savings from Increasing Health Care Costs
- Investment Return Calculators for Funds, Portfolios or Stocks
- Most Popular Stock Funds in 401(k) Plans
- Market Overview
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The Four Essential Steps for 401(k) Investments
In this issue:
- Leaving your company: things to consider for your company 401(k) account
- The Four Essential Steps for 401(k) Investments
- How to Determine the Amount to Contribute to Maximize Your Company Match
- Thrift Savings Plan: The Largest Public Sector Workers’ Retirement Savings Plan
- Market overview: Enjoy the season but don’t be complacent
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Asset Allocation Portfolio Templates for 401(k) Investments
This article shows the most popular asset allocation core portfolio templates for long-term investments such as a retirement investment account like 401(k) account, IRA or a taxable brokerage account.
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Rolling Returns: A Better Way To Evaluate & Compare Investments
We discuss how to utilize our newly upgraded free comparison tool to better evaluate and compare ETFs, mutual funds and portfolios using rolling returns
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Index Funds As Businesses — Fundamental Indexing
Introducing fundamental index funds that align with business owner’s approach in investing. We also show how these funds have consistently outperformed.
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High Yield Bonds Are Good Alternatives For Aggressive Fixed Income Investors
High yield bonds, managed correctly, can be a valuable addition to boost fixed income returns.
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Trends, Factors & Indicators
We look at several famous lazy portfolios and discuss asset allocations and diversification effect in portfolio construction.
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Lazy Portfolios Review
We look at several famous lazy portfolios and discuss asset allocations and diversification effect in portfolio construction.
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‘Best’ Tactical Stock or Dividend Income Balanced Portfolios vs. Best Balanced Allocation Fund
We present our tactical balanced stock and dividend income portfolios that outperform the best balanced allocation fund T. Rowe Price capital appreciation fund PRWCX both in terms of returns and risk
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January 18, 2022: Steady And Consistency Win In The Long Term
Sticking to a good investing strategy for a long period of time (20 years or longer) is the only way to reap benefits from the strategy
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January 3, 2022: The Year In Rear View: Portfolio And Asset Class Review
We review our main portfolios in 2021..
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December 13, 2021: Present And Future
We review asset trends and discuss future returns.
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November 22, 2021: The ‘Best’ Balanced Fund Revisited
The T.Rowe Price Capital Allocation fund is again performing. However, we show that there are several ways to construct a portfolio to outperform it, both in terms of returns and risk .
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November 15, 2021: Q&A On MyPlanIQ Strategies And Portfolios
This newsletter clarifies several FAQs on our model portfolios and strategies. .
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November 8, 2021: Major Asset Returns In The Past Twenty Years
We look at major asset returns for the past 20 plus years and discussed their potential risk and returns.
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November 1, 2021: Latest Momentum Factor ETFs Review
We review latest stock factor ETFs and point out they are very similar in terms of their indexing methodoloty.
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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.
