Portfolio Management

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Secure Your Financial Future: Create a Winning Investment Policy Statement

Introduction: Why Every Investor Needs an Investment Policy Statement How do you stay disciplined when markets are unpredictable? An Investment Policy Statement (IPS) serves as your financial roadmap. It guides your investment decisions and keeps you focused on long-term goals. This document provides a framework that helps you manage the emotional and strategic challenges of […]

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Diversification Free Lunch: A Value Investor’s Guide

Harry Markowitz said: Diversification is the only free lunch in investing. As I write this towards the end of 2024, we have seen a number of years where a very select group of stocks has dominated the market returns. The Magnificent 7 stocks, for example, contribute to a large chunk of S&P 500 returns recently,

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Why Traditional Portfolio Allocation Fails Event Driven Stocks—And My Strategy to Solve It

I have a new stock candidate to add to my small cap value portfolio (which is part of the Premium membership at my newsletter on Substack ). This poses a dilemma. My portfolio is allocated based on Kelly Fractions. This is the Kelly Criterion adjusted for a multi-asset portfolio. The allocation takes the correlations and

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Why Strategic Allocation Beats Stock Picking: The Hidden Science of Long-Term Gains

Most investors approach long term investment portfolio allocation very casually. Typical processes involve investing whatever cash is available, investing an equal number of shares among all stocks in the portfolio, investing an equal number of dollars among all stocks in the portfolio, or setting some thresholds (I will invest $x to start and if the

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