This post has nothing to do with asset prices, valuation, or timing the market as the title may have led you to believe. It has to do with investor psychology and behavior. Over the years I’ve wondered if certain types of people would be happier if they didn’t invest in anything Read more…
What else do I have to do on an NFL playoff weekend? Yesterday I decided not to wait any longer for the Google god to bless my GTAA 13 spreadsheet with an upgrade to the newest version. Good thing I found a workaround – create a new sheet from scratch Read more…
I’ve finally managed to update most of the diversified portfolios I track with the 2014 performance data. In my last post I updated the specific equity only quant strategies I track. OK, so let’s get right to it. For more details on the actual portfolios you can reference this post Read more…
It is that time of year to start updating performance figures for the various portfolios I track here on the blog. In this post I’ll quickly present the performance of the quant portfolios I’ve presented in the past. The quant portfolios I’ve presented on the blog are (with links to Read more…
And so 2014 ends. What an interesting year from the investment performance side of things. Who would have thought long term bonds and REITs would have led the performance rankings? I’ll have much to say about the 2014 performance of the various asset classes and portfolios throughout this month but Read more…
It’s that time of year again. Time to look at your portfolio and decide on your rebalancing strategy. Most investors know they should rebalance but many don’t do it or they get hung up on the detailed mechanics of rebalancing. In this post I’ll present a quick summary of rebalancing Read more…
Big news here today. I’ve moved the Investing For A Living blog from a WordPress hosted site to a self-hosted site. If you’re a blog follower and want to keep up with new posts I’d like to ask you to do the following: 1/ RSS Followers -> If you’re getting Read more…
There is a severe lack of long term perspective by most financial market participants these days. Interest rates, and in particular the potential for a dramatic rise in future rates, is just the most recent example. Most analyses of rising rates don’t go back far enough to be really useful. Read more…
Warning. This post is kind of a finance geek out. I’ll try and keep it as basic as possible but I apologize in advance if I cause any heads to hit the keyboard… In this post I’ll take a look at impact and potential benefits of adding volatility weighting and Read more…
Interest rates are going up. Interest rates are going down. The 30 year bull market in bonds is coming to an end. The FED cannot afford to raise rates significantly without killing the economy. Bonds will have negative real returns going forward. We’re in the biggest bond bubble of all Read more…
11 months down, 1 to go in 2014. Here are the tactical asset allocation portfolio updates for this month. Starting with the most basic portfolios, below are the December updates for the GTAA5 and the Permanent Portfolio. I keep a spreadsheet online that is update automatically. There were no changes from Read more…