There is a lot of interest in Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) portfolios these days. The big TAA models are the various versions of the IVY portfolios (GTAA5, GTAA13, GTAA AGG3/6) and the Antonacci GEM/GBM portfolios. See here for a recent comparison. There are many others. The promise of higher than Read more…
Well, that was fast! I just finished the second Investing For A Living screencast. In this one I tackle ‘How to Implement the 4% rule’. After publishing the first screencast I quickly realized that there is still quite a bit of misunderstanding when it comes to actually implementing the 4% Read more…
Today I’m introducing something new for Investing For A Living. Screencasts. I love writing the blog. I love doing the research that goes into the blog posts as well. But I realize it is for a small audience. Especially with some topics like quant investing. Over time I’ve received more Read more…
Here are the tactical asset allocation updates for May 2015. All portfolio updates are online as part of Paul’s GTAA 13 Portfolio New sheet. First, for the basic portfolios – the GTAA5 and the Permanent Portfolio. Only one change in the GTAA5 portfolio. Foreign stocks (VEU) went back to invested this month, after only one Read more…
In today’s post I’ll update the Trending Value quant system. The primary difference Trending Value has in relation to the three other systems that I have updated (Utilities Value, Consumer Staples Value, and Enhanced Yield) is that it uses relative price momentum in addition to value to screen for stocks. Read more…
Time to update quant system #3 in my series. See my previous two posts for the first two system updates (here and here). Today I’ll update the enhanced dividend yield system which I originally posted on almost 2 years ago. Let’s dive right in. The enhanced dividend yield strategy originally Read more…
In today’s post I’ll update the second quant investing system, the utilities sector value system. In my last post I updated the consumer staples value system. The utilities sector value system can be used on it’s own or combined in a portfolio with the consumer staples system. Lets get right Read more…
I’ve received a fair amount of interest in providing an update to the quant portfolios I’ve presented on the blog in the past. For those trying to implement the portfolios themselves it can provide a good check on their implementations. For newbies, it is a good re-intro to the power Read more…
Compounded annual returns are the crack of the investment world. Wall Street is the pusher and investors are the addicts. Investment companies and investors focus on the annual return metric as the most important in a portfolio to the long term detriment of most investors. This myopic focus on annual Read more…
I get a lot of questions about the mechanics of buying and selling the ETFs that comprise the tactical asset allocation (TAA) portfolios that I discuss on the blog. In this post I’ll address some common concerns and issues with respect to ETFs and share some tips for trading them Read more…
Any investment strategy that is not ‘the market’ will experience periods of under performance. Sometimes quite extended like value investing in the late 90s. How an investor handles those periods of underperformance goes a long way to determining whether they have any chance of outperforming the averages over time. In Read more…