The best assets to protect your portfolio against inflation.
Asset Allocation
Is Diversification Finally Working?
Is it finally time for tech to underperform.
Updating My Favorite Performance Chart For 2020
Asset class performance over the past 10 years.
Talk Your Book: Direct Indexing
On today’s show Michael and I talked with Rusty Vanneman, CIO at Orion about direct indexing.
Talk Your Book: Investing in Gold
Michael and Ben talk with George Milling-Stanley, Chief Gold Strategist at SSGA.
The Only Rational Deployment of Our Ignorance
My presentation on diversification and why I think online conferences might work.
The Diversification Drag & The Management of Luck
How diversification can help manage bad luck.
The 5 Types of Investors In This Market
Market prices are created by millions of different opinions, time horizons, risk appetites, investment styles and personality types. These differences are what make a market. Otherwise, there would be few transactions and a lack of liquidity. Investor sentiment is often based not only on what’s going on in the markets but also how people position…
More Thoughts on the Worst Case Scenarios for Diversified Portfolios
Looking at a 50/50 portfolio vs. a 75/25 portfolio vs. an all-stock portfolio.
What’s The Worst Case Scenario for Diversified Portfolios?
Diversification can make you feel like you’re running uphill with a weighted vest on during a bull market. It’s only during a bear market that you realize its importance as a form of risk management. A 50/50 portfolio of the S&P 500 and Barclays Aggregate Bond Index is down 3.9% or so this year compared…