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Roger Nusbaum brings 30 years of investment industry experience into his newest role as ETF Strategist at AdvisorShares. For many years the Random Roger blog has focused on portfolio construction, behavioral finance, the need for innovative retirement solutions and ETF thought leadership related ...more

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Turn The TV Off
With the stock near it’s low, one of the more famous stock market pundits said “you have to let it go.”
Time For Something Adventurous
Lifestyle in Georgia is very cheap. Is it a retirement stable country?
AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 7/22/2016
Assets in actively managed ETFs reported in last week at $26.497 billion, which was an increase of less than ten basis points. The active ETF space currently has 150 funds.
Deploying Cash When The Market Is At All Time Highs
There are many valid strategies for deploying cash but about the worst way for investors is doing so via a guess about what the market will do.
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
I believe that if you build a properly diversified portfolio and have an adequate savings rate and do no trading, you have a very good chance of having enough money when you need it (presumably retirement).
Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 7/8/2016
The big story in flows for both fund companies and strategies was the risk-on movement out of short term bond funds, which is captured in the large outflows from iShares and PIMCO as well as the Short Term Bond Category itself.
Pension Pitfalls
Any retirement plan, including one dependent on successful pension results needs to have the risks to that plan spelled out to have a better chance of mitigating the consequences of those risks should they materialize.
VIX Not The Hedge It’s Supposed To Be?
A curious thing happened during Monday’s session, day two of the Brexit aftermath. As equities fell so too did the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index known as VIX.
Of Supernovas & Deflation
I am less concerned with trying to predict anything so much as trying to be aware of the risks for any asset class that are in the portfolio.
Closed End Fund Palooza
A portfolio that blends different income segments with different risk and volatility profiles is a reasonable way to go, but loading up on the highest yielding stuff is going to lead to pain and anguish at some point.
Hopefully The Short Run Doesn’t Kill You
There is a balancing act that is crucial to effective asset allocation. To the extent each holding should have a purpose (growth, income, correlation) it is important to understand the drawback each type of holding has.
Great (But Wrong) Expectations
A favorite topic to blog about has long been alternative ways to allocate assets beyond the 60/40 standby as well as the extent to which big market trends influence allocation decisions.
AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 5/20/2016
For a second week in a row, assets in actively managed ETFs had a very small gain, $72 million last week, which brings the total asset level up to $25.238 billion. There was one new fund launched last week, which brings the count up to 144.
The New Asset Allocation Standard?
Equities struggled in the 2000’s and gold did well. For most of this decade equities rocketed higher and gold did poorly. This year equities have traded sideways and gold has gone up...
When To Take Social Security; Still Complicated
Starting benefits at 62 (versus 70) means taking in eight years of reduced payments versus waiting for the higher payout at 70. How long does it take for the eight year wait to pay off? For most people it is eight-ten years.
The Sweet Simplicity Of Core & Explore
There is nothing new about simplicity of core & explore but it can be simple and effective which is a good combination for a portfolio strategy.
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