Weekend Reading – Vanguard On Best Portfolio Rebalancing Frequency

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People don't want to rebalance when the stock market is doing well
Vanguard Research
INVEST WISELY
CONSTRUCT YOUR PORTFOLIO
A Step-By-Step Guide To Reduce All Investing Costs & Slashing them, one by one. Whether they are visible, or not (i) ETF Costs – by selecting the best performing ETF based on Tracking Difference and TERs. (ii) Taxes – Taxes owed to foreign and local governments on received dividends. (iii) FX Fees – Conversion fees when investing in another currency and receiving dividends and (iv) Invisible Costs – When trading ETFs, including spreads.
- Why to rebalance and when? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Account turnover or do nothing trategy? Which one is better? (Humble Dollar)
- The risk of owning equities declines as the time horizon increases or does it? (Advisor Perspectives)
- Is a GDP Weighted Index A source of superior returns? (CFA Institute)
- Time to move on from the 60/40 debate (Vanguard)
- Being aware of the potential for unintended bets can shape the how, where, and even the when of portfolio construction. (Flirting With Models - 54 mni)
Tyler runs the website Portfoliocharts.com which features a variety of useful data visualization tools and back testing for asset allocations. The website features sample portfolios and also contains tools for users to create their own DIY asset allocations that are backed by data.
This conversation is about Tyler’s journey as an investor.
HOW TO INVEST
UNDERSTAND FINANCIAL MARKETS
Universa’s Taleb on Inflation, Global Financial Markets, & Crypto (Bloomberg - 30 Min )
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. The Sunday Times called his 2007 book The Black Swan one of the 12 most influential books since World War II.
Active Investing
FACTOR investing
- Novel Measure of Firm-Level AI exposures (Alpha Architect)
- Industry classification and the momentum factor (Alpha Architect)
- International Deep Value: Extreme cheapness ignores relative fundamentals (GMO, Paywall)
- Long-term front-running - An introduction to value investing (Asian Century Stocks)
- Intangible Value Factor can play an additive role in factor portfolios alongside the established market, size, value, quality, and momentum factors. (Sparkline Capital)
discretionary investing
Druckenmiller: AI is Dominating My Long Portfolio (Bloomberg - 33 Min )
Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller is an American investor, hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He is the former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010. At the time of closing, Duquesne Capital had over $12 billion in assets.
ALTERNATIVE ASSET CLASSES
WALL STREET
Steve Eisman is known for having bet against the housing market before the Great Financial Crisis in a trade immortalized by Michael Lewis in The Big Short. So what is he betting on now? In a special live episode of Odd Lots, recorded at the Bloomberg Invest summit, he discusses the recent banking turmoil (he thinks it’s contained), the boom in anything related to AI, and his current bets on US manufacturing and infrastructure.
SUSTAINABLE investing
crypto
- When Is a Token Not a Security? (Bloomberg, Paywall)
- 10T Holdings founder Dan Tapiero and Raoul Pal discuss the current macro environment, how it’s affecting crypto, and what they see on the horizon for the ecosystem (Real Vision - 1 hr 10 min)
- The fate of Crypto in the US rests more on the courts interpretation of the Howey test as opposed to any forthcoming legislation (Net Interest)
BAD BETS
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- Risks and Returns of Money Market Funds
- Asset Allocation for 10-15 year goals with narrowing returns between Equities & Bonds
- Merits of UK Trusts that invest in unlisted companies
- Traps with choosing brokers – PFOF & Risks of moving to another country
- International Situations – Choosing ETFs when leaving Europe
DESIGN YOUR LIFESTYLE
Personal Development
Having a strong connection with your future self has many benefits. It means you’re more likely to make decisions that will serve you later in life, like saving for retirement, eating healthily, and exercising regularly. But Hal also warns that we risk losing sight of the present and what truly matters when we focus solely on the future. To hear all of Hal’s knowledgeable insights on this topic and what he wants to explore next, be sure to tune in.
Health & Wellness
CAREERS
- Why changing your job may not increase your level of happiness (The Atlantic)
- What does a country's culture of work and productivity have to do with declining fertility rates (The Ringer)
- Co-working spaces aren't going anywhere (Axios)
- Google to crack down on office attendance (CNBC)
- Vision Pro and the Office - The Future of (remote) work? (Dror Pleg)
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