Stock Investing for Beginners
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View ArticleInvestment Portfolio Examples
The first example is a 50% - 50% stocks and long bonds portfolio using the Vanguard 500 Index Investor mutual fund (VFINX), which tracks the Standard and Poor's 500 index of large U.S. corporations,...
View ArticleBuying Gold as an Investment
In the previous article we looked at a simple 50-50 mix of U.S. stocks and long U.S. bonds portfolio that was regularly rebalanced and saw that it out performed the S&P 500 index. Now we examine...
View ArticleAn example of the Talmud portfolio
Now we’ll look at the ancient 1/N (where N=3) portfolio mentioned in the main article which is said to have included land, business interests and cash reserves. As a first attempt at modeling this...
View ArticleThe Permanent Portfolio
The permanent portfolio is equally divided among four assets: gold, stocks, long bonds, and cash. The idea or hope is that the portfolio will be preserved independent of what happens: inflation,...
View ArticleInvesting in Growth Stocks
If we add some high growth stocks, something I have also referred to as conviction stocks, to our portfolio (and they do well), it is possible that we can raise our ROI without raising our volatility,...
View ArticleMutual Fund Correlations and the Data Snooping Bias
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View ArticleBest Investing Sites
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View ArticleWarnings re: Exchange Traded Notes or ETNs
If you are interested in purchasing an exchange traded note, better read the prospectus extremely carefully, or, better yet, hold off purchasing any for the time being. Continue reading →The post...
View ArticleStock System Trading
Technically speaking, a multi-asset 1/N portfolio with uncorrelated assets and periodic re-balancing is "system trading". It's a set of rules or a methodology that one follows mechanically to make...
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