A man having a religious crisis of faith initially spoke the famous words of this blogs subject line. He was acknowledging that with tough decisions, there is a continuum, not a simple yes or no answer. You can have conviction, but circumstances come along that challenge it’s depth.
Similarly with such market volatility [...]
Category Archives: Rebalancing
I Believe, But Help Me In My Unbelief — Dealing With Market Volatility
Sunday, July 4, 2010
How To Not Check Your Retirement Portfolio
Monday, May 31, 2010
There are different types of retirement investors and ultimately, different approaches to growing your money. Some investors play the high stakes game of competing against the market itself. These investors have entered the largest poker tournament the world has to offer. And who has joined these gamblers at the table? Teams of the smartest minds, [...]
Get Wall Street Out of Your Pocketbook by Removing the Intermediaries
Monday, May 10, 2010
Just when we thought we were through hearing about the Wall Street hooligans and their criminal vices our “untouchable” friends at Goldman Sachs made the news twice. The Wall Street Journal revealed that the SEC has found criminal doings at Goldman. With one hand secretly cramming worthless mortgaged backed securities into their valued clients accounts, the [...]
Rebalancing – How the Pros Make More Money Than You
Monday, February 8, 2010
We were honored that Rob Silverblatt at U.S. News & World Report listened to us and rigorously dug deep with us into the powerful secret of event based rebalancing over traditional quarterly or annual rebalancing. He questioned our numbers and assumptions and did a great job describing the issue. Finally someone is helping us make [...]
Asset Allocation and Portfolio Rebalancing Paid Off
Monday, January 4, 2010
As you review your returns for the last year, and possibly the last decade, you may agree that retirement investing was dealt a hard blow; what you may not be aware of is how portfolio rebalancing made great efforts to lessen one’s losses. Allan Roth of CBS MoneyWatch gave some noteworthy advice for the next [...]
Tracking 9 ETF Portfolios – Surprise Winners and Losers So Far in 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The famous professors at Yale have proven that asset allocation accounts for 90% of a portfolio’s return and that stock picking and market timing account for less than 10%. So what a great time to look at how different asset allocations are faring in this market!
In 2008 it turns out that asset allocation decisions have everything [...]
