November 30, 2020: Higher Return Portfolios: Part 2
We further study higher return portfolio using industry ETFs.
November 16, 2020: Higher Return Portfolios
We present several advanced portfolios whose returns are boosted by technology funds.
November 9, 2020: Fixed Income Funds Update
We review PIMCO bond funds whose manager won the Morningstar award.
November 2, 2020: Polls Are Useless vs. This Investment Strategy Doesn’t Work!
We argue that one shouldn’t quickly accept or dismiss an election poll just because a low probability event occurs. This is similar to an investment strategy
October 26, 2020: Recent Improvements
We describe our recent change, improvements and offerings to our subscribers
October 19, 2020: REIT Indexes As Businesses
We look at US REIT indexes and again find that they represent some good businesses in REITs.
October 12, 2020: Stock Indexes As Businesses
We look at S&P 500 index as a business again and examine its important metrics.
October 5, 2020: Asset Trend Review
We review current market situations and pointed out that asset prices are buoyed with monetary and fiscal policies even when the pandemic drags on.
September 28, 2020: Retirement Spending: Your Portfolio’s Volatility Matters
We look at how the volaitlity of a portfolio affects retirement spending and purchase power again by studying two portfolios.
September 21, 2020: Boring Utility Stocks Are Excellent Long Term Winners
Boring utility stocks can actually deliver similar or better returns, especially when a long term market timing is applied. This makes it appealing to income investors..
September 14, 2020: Surprised, Active Fixed Income Investors Have Done Better Than Stock Investors For The Last 20 Years!
We showed that bond investments actually have done better than stock investors since 2000. We also discuss that bond investments will likely outperform stocks in the next decade.
August 31, 2020: Investing In An Ultra-Low Return Environment
We review the current ultra-low return environment and discuss how to derive better returns.
August 24, 2020: Target Maturity Bond ETFs For Short Term Cash
We discuss how to utilize target maturity bond ETFs for short term cash needed.
August 17, 2020: Newsletter Collection Update
We list newsletters that have been published since last December.
August 10, 2020: Fixed Income In A Speculative Era
We examine possible future scenarios on bonds and stocks and conclude that an active tactical bond fund portfolio like our total return bond fund portfolios are more likely to outperform stocks in the coming years
August 3, 2020: Sound Investment Strategies
We revisit the concept of a sound investment strategy and look at some of long running portfolios monitored by MyPlanIQ. We also discuss the current market conditions.
July 27, 2020: Total Return Bond Funds Update
We update and review total return bonds we use for our fixed income portfolios.
July 20, 2020: Divergence Between Value And Growth Stocks Everywhere
Growth stocks have outperformed value stocks for a long period of time. We look at how this affects allocation funds’ performance.
July 13, 2020: Short Term Cash, Treasury Bills, CDs And Future Fixed Income
We report the ultra low interests paid by banks, Treasuries and brokerage money market funds. We also discuss what to do with one’s fixed income investments going forward.
July 6, 2020: Bond ETFs vs. Bond Mutual Funds
Bond ETFs, unlike stock ETFs, are still limited with bonds’ liquidity and can still have large discount over their NAVs during a market crisis.
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- Re: Tesla leaving Extended for S&P500. December 2, 2020columbia wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:00 pm z3r0c00l wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:35 pm columbia wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:33 pm z3r0c00l wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:13 pm snailderby wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:04 am Tesla's market cap is more than five times the value of Ford and GM combined? […]z3r0c00l
- Re: Asset allocation and risk parity ? December 2, 2020BJJ_GUY wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:57 pm Respectfully, you are wrong. Everything you state in the first paragraph is just misguided. There is no step where you manipulate inputs such that the assets have an equal Sharpe ratio. I don't know what you mean with regard to 'solving for the risk parity portfolio.' Risk-parity […]Steve Reading
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