Crawling Road » risk 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 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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Recently it’s become clear that iShares is doing a lot of securities lending behind the scenes in their TLT Treasury ETF. This is a Treasury ETF they offer to hold bonds in excess of 20+ years. While not a perfect solution for the Permanent Portfolio, it is recommended by myself if you want to [...]

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Normally I don’t pay much attention to these things, but this story on bank failure stress testing caught my eye: Fed Unveils Doomsday Scenario for Banks The Fed will look at how the nation’s 19 largest banks would survive a world with a 13 percent jobless rate, a 50-percent drop in stocks, a [...]

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Doing some research recently I’ve found that almost 9 out of 10 of the trades on any given day on Wall Street are between professionals, not individuals. Think about that for a second. When you go to make a trade, 9 out of 10 times you are doing it against someone that does it for a living. And not [...]

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In response to concerns about the Permanent Portfolio having a bit of a down month over at the forum I posted the following: I have been running this portfolio for almost five years now. I sleep so much better vs. my older index stock/bond portfolio I cannot put it into words. It has taken me [...]

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In this episode I discuss the four asset classes of the Permanent Portfolio and volatility. I also discuss risk in investing and the need to not look at assets in isolation in your portfolio.

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On some investment forums the idea of the Permanent Portfolio is very strange. After all, it holds gold and everybody knows that gold is a net zero real return asset (e.g. it matches inflation historically and that’s it). Or they say it’s in a “bubble” and it’s going to pop. Fair enough. But that [...]

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Have you ever noticed how confident people are with their predictions on the investing markets?

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