Jason Buck did an incredible episode on the Infinite Loops podcast. On the back of it, Roger Nusbaum took the opportunity to recreate the Cockroach Portfolio this way: Look at the backtest. No, really, look at it. This isn’t a cockroach strategy scraping by on survival. This is something that Read more
I found this ETF reading Roger Nusbaum blog. When I first saw the name and website, I instantly dismissed it as a marketing stunt. But Roger continued to mention it, so one day I bit the bullet and dug more. INVESTMENT APPROACHThe Adviser allocates the Fund’s portfolio equally among four Read more
I was going through some old posts and realized something surprising: I’ve never written a dedicated piece on risk parity. I could’ve sworn I covered it at some point—maybe under the All Weather umbrella—but apparently not. Chalk it up to the hazards of writing too much (or having a bad Read more
Have you ever heard about the Cockroach Portfolio? It is novel perspective on the Permanent Portfolio, four quadrant investment strategy. When you make an investment, you evaluate the potential return against the risk you are taking. Volatility is the most used risk measure but it does not give you the Read more