Crawling Road » risk management 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 management 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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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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]]> http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/04/02/nassim-taleb-interview-on-antifragility/feed/ 1 Vanguard Questionnaire Says 100% Stock is Great Idea and Unicorns are Real http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/26/vanguard-risk-questionnaire-says-100-stock-is-great-idea-and-unicorns-are-real/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/26/vanguard-risk-questionnaire-says-100-stock-is-great-idea-and-unicorns-are-real/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:01:17 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=7124

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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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Let’s talk about risk and the future. Sometimes I get a question about event X or event Y or event Z. These can sometimes be extreme events that someone is worried over. They often want to know how the Permanent Portfolio will deal with one or all of them. My answer is that nobody knows what every [...]

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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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Someone wanted to know if using stop losses is a good idea for the Permanent Portfolio. In short, no they aren’t. For the uninitiated, a stop loss is an automatic order in place at the broker to sell a security when a certain low price has been reached. The theory is that you can set a stock price [...]

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The markets are very volatile. I will remind readers that your portfolio is a package made up of very volatile assets. But put together they make a smoother ride. The individual assets may move in strong directions, but the overall portfolio value is all that matters in the end. Don’t focus on the [...]

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Ever hear about asset class correlations? It's all bunk.

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