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5 months ago
in Identity Crisis on BehaviorGap
Thought you might be interested in this: http://www.kitces.com/blog/index.php?/archives/...
Seemed fitting after listening to your audio post
Seemed fitting after listening to your audio post
5 months ago
in Forecasting is a Waste of Time on BehaviorGap
Carl,
Great post. Once again, you've done a great job of cutting to the core of this issue. I posted something on this same article recently, too. Can't believe Zweig denounces forecasts and then is all too willing to share his own forecast. Oh well, like you said, the other 95% of the article is well worth the read.
Great post. Once again, you've done a great job of cutting to the core of this issue. I posted something on this same article recently, too. Can't believe Zweig denounces forecasts and then is all too willing to share his own forecast. Oh well, like you said, the other 95% of the article is well worth the read.
7 months ago
in Why SEO is Not Going to Die or Fade Away on Jacob Morgan on Social Media, Technology, Marketing, and Life
I agree that SEO will be around for a long time. As long as Google and others have spiders crawling and indexing the web, there will be SEO. Great post, Jacob.
<abbr>Check out Russ’s last blog post..THE AMAZING DISAPPEARING OIL CRISIS: An Object Lesson</abbr>
<abbr>Check out Russ’s last blog post..THE AMAZING DISAPPEARING OIL CRISIS: An Object Lesson</abbr>
8 months ago
in I’m following you! on Jim's Marketing Blog
I'm already following you on Twitter (which I highly recommend to others), and have been monitoring your no-follow decision/discussion. Will be curious to see what comes of it in the coming days & weeks.
Thanks for your willingness to give before you receive. If there's anything I can do to help you out, please let me know. I'm @rthornton on Twitter.
Cheers!
Thanks for your willingness to give before you receive. If there's anything I can do to help you out, please let me know. I'm @rthornton on Twitter.
Cheers!
8 months ago
in Gary Vaynerchuk - A reaction to Howard Sterns thought on Social... on Gary Vaynerchuk
Caught this earlier on Ustream. Love it. Howard Stern is the target of this video, but it could have been one of dozens of others that are going into defensive mode because all these young, new whipper-snappers are using all these new-fangled tools like Blogs, twitter, streaming video, etc.
It's an exciting time to be involved with the wave of change in communications, marketing, advertising, branding, etc
Thanks, Gary.
It's an exciting time to be involved with the wave of change in communications, marketing, advertising, branding, etc
Thanks, Gary.
1 year ago
in Picking Warren Buffett’s Brain: Notes from a Novice on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Based on your assumptions and including an average life expectancy of 85 years, you're talking about a 55 year investment horizon.
If you can stomach the ups and downs, I would go with an all equity portfolio, but instead of going simply with the S&P 500, I would go with a globally diversified basket of low cost, tax efficient index and/or asset class funds.
I would include the entire US stock market (all capitalizations), the entire International developed market (all capitalizations), and the entire International emerging market (again, all capitalizations). I would also add some income producing real estate in the form of a well diversified, low cost REIT index fund.
This can be accomplished with Vanguard funds, ETFs or other flavors of investment.
You can further increase your expected returns over time by tilting your exposures more heavily to small cap and value companies.
Check out www.dfaus.com for further data on this approach. They advocate taking the risks that you're compensated for, and I incorporate this approach in my work with clients.
Once your target allocation among the chosen funds had been determined, I would rebalance back to your target allocation when any single asset class deviated 20% from it's target. There is meaningful data supporting this rebalancing trigger. You could also rebalance with additional savings which is a much more tax efficient approach and will reduce your capital gains realization. Rebalancing forces you to buy more of the relatively less expensive asset class in a classic "buy low" discipline.
That's about it. Buy when you have money and only sell when you need the money, but not before.
Cheers
If you can stomach the ups and downs, I would go with an all equity portfolio, but instead of going simply with the S&P 500, I would go with a globally diversified basket of low cost, tax efficient index and/or asset class funds.
I would include the entire US stock market (all capitalizations), the entire International developed market (all capitalizations), and the entire International emerging market (again, all capitalizations). I would also add some income producing real estate in the form of a well diversified, low cost REIT index fund.
This can be accomplished with Vanguard funds, ETFs or other flavors of investment.
You can further increase your expected returns over time by tilting your exposures more heavily to small cap and value companies.
Check out www.dfaus.com for further data on this approach. They advocate taking the risks that you're compensated for, and I incorporate this approach in my work with clients.
Once your target allocation among the chosen funds had been determined, I would rebalance back to your target allocation when any single asset class deviated 20% from it's target. There is meaningful data supporting this rebalancing trigger. You could also rebalance with additional savings which is a much more tax efficient approach and will reduce your capital gains realization. Rebalancing forces you to buy more of the relatively less expensive asset class in a classic "buy low" discipline.
That's about it. Buy when you have money and only sell when you need the money, but not before.
Cheers
