Crawling Road » risk control http://crawlingroad.com/blog The Permanent Portfolio, Investing, Finance and Random Thoughts. Tue, 22 May 2012 21:55:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= The Crawling Road Money Show focuses on investing, finance and economics. We discuss the Permanent Portfolio and other topics to make investing simple and successful. Craig Rowland clean Craig Rowland podcastsxml@crawlingroad.com podcastsxml@crawlingroad.com (Craig Rowland) 2010-2012 Craig Rowland Simple investing for success. investing, permanent portfolio, indexing, stocks, bonds, cash, gold, harry browne, john chandler, craig rowland, craigr, crawling road Crawling Road » risk control http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://crawlingroad.com/blog Institutional Diversification: A Great Idea to Limit Risk http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/05/13/institutional-diversification-a-great-idea-to-limit-risk/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/05/13/institutional-diversification-a-great-idea-to-limit-risk/#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 07:55:28 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=7224

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The topic of safety of keeping all your funds at Vanguard came up recently on the Bogleheads forum and an interesting post from The Oblivious Investor: Is it Safer to Use Multiple Fund Companies? This is a great post with an interview from a Vanguard PR rep about their internal controls and [...]

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]]> http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/05/13/institutional-diversification-a-great-idea-to-limit-risk/feed/ 0 Nassim Taleb Interview on Antifragility http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/04/02/nassim-taleb-interview-on-antifragility/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/04/02/nassim-taleb-interview-on-antifragility/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:35:45 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=7180

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I’m finally catching up on some listening and came across an interview on Econtalk with Nassim Taleb, author of books like The Black Swan. I’m a fan of Nassim Taleb because I agree with his ideas on the topic of uncertainty (especially in the markets): Taleb on Antifragility In this [...]

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I just read about a Vanguard retirement planning calculator recommending someone put 100% of their money into the stock market. Well, 100% in any asset class is gambling, not investing. The Vanguard questionnaire assumes many things about the future that history simply doesn’t support in terms of [...]

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A theme that runs on this blog is to not take anything for granted in terms what will happen while investing. In particular, I often mention the idea that any asset can fall in price very steeply at any time and for a multitude of reasons. Stocks in particular have had a very storied history in [...]

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Just some quick notes because the “gold is worthless compared to stocks” debate has heated up again in the news. Let’s just get this out of the way: Gold is not a stock or bond. This is not groundbreaking wisdom, it is plainly obvious. Gold will not have interest or dividends like a stock or bond. [...]

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MF Global lays out the perfect case for Rule #10 in the 16 Golden Rules of Financial Safety: Are customer accounts at brokerage firms safe? Until the collapse of MF Global, that’s a question I thought I’d never have to ask. Brokerage firms are required by law to maintain segregated accounts holding [...]

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Relating to this post about funds holding things they otherwise shouldn’t: Vanguard Treasury Bond Funds Filled with Mortgage Garbage A reader wrote to iShares to ask about their ETFs and find out which had direct holdings and which were synthetically run with derivatives. The directly held funds [...]

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EyeDee over at the Bogleheads forum posts the following: Those who own Vanguard Treasury funds to avoid mortgage-backed securities should probably be aware that as of 08/31/2011, Government Mortgage-Backed securities in Vanguard’s Treasury funds are up to: 17.7% in Short-Term Treasury Fund 17.4% in [...]

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Hat Tip to Odysseusa for this article from Globe and Mail: Lessons for investors from Japan’s lost decades The lesson? Broad diversification works. A Japanese investor who held government bonds, foreign stocks, precious metals and cash, in addition to domestic shares, would have blunted the [...]

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In relation to yesterday’s post on portfolio firewalls, it reminded me of something… I knew a guy that was a seasoned network architect. We were talking one day about network design and highest performance. Being young and dumb, I thought that highest performance was all that needed to be [...]

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