Recently, ReSolve’s Founders had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with Shaun Wurzbach, Global Head of Financial Advisor Channel for S&P Dow Jones Indices. In this short 12-minute video, we cover a lot of ground: cognitive biases, regulatory change, the value of …
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Yesterday we received a thoughtful inquiry from a client, whose spouse has been following the so-called “2-Minute Portfolio” publicized by vocal advisor critic Rob Carrick at Canada’s The Globe and Mail newspaper. The client was being challenged by his spouse about his …
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Recently, ReSolve’s fearless leaders – Mike Philbrick, Adam Butler and Rodrigo Gordillo – were invited to join Meb Faber on his new podcast. Meb was kind enough to geek out with us for almost an hour about a wide variety of topics. In this second of two posts …
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he fundamental recognition is that asset allocation completely dominates long-term portfolio outcomes. There’s a pile of research out there, most of it is really misunderstood. For instance, Brinson’s a perfect example where the original research claimed that …
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So who are the turkeys in the current market? Consider that for the past 7 years, the world’s central banks have fed investors with a steady diet of nearly unlimited support for risky assets like global stocks, bonds, and real estate. Markets have been buffeted time and …
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Banks make money by taking your deposits and loaning against them. In fact, the law allows for banks to loan out a surprising amount of capital against your deposit, up to 90-95%, keeping only a 5-10% capital cushion. If we assume that banks do this many …
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If you’ve been a regular reader of our blog, you already know that we recently published our first book Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Portfolios to Profit in Good Times – and Bad. As of this writing, it still stands as the #1 new release in Amazon’s Business …
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With that fully in mind, today we bring you a crazy Shymalanian twist: you need to read our recently published book Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Portfolios to Profit in Good Times – and Bad. Yes, it’s 40,000 words of investment philosophy, research and insights…
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Did you read our 2015 Annual Letter, entitled “Navigating Active Asset Allocation When Diversification Fails?” If not, you should because some of the things that are happening in the markets right now are eerily in line with the topics addressed therein …
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