Showing posts with label portfolio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portfolio. Show all posts

July 15, 2017

Coffeehouse Portfolio

Coffeehouse portfolio is popularized by Bill Schultheis. He mentioned the portfolio in his book, The Coffeehouse Investor.

This lazy portfolio is a buy-and-hold portfolio that contains a healthy allocation to US stocks, international stocks, REIT, and bonds.

Who Is Bill Schultheis?

Coffeehouse PortfolioBill Schultheis is an author and financial adviser. He is also a bogleheads.org reading list author. He wrote a book which titled

June 17, 2017

Core Four Portfolio

Core four portfolio is popularized by Rick Ferri. He mentioned the portfolio on Boglehead Forum.
This lazy portfolio is a buy-and-hold portfolio that contains a healthy allocation to US stocks, international stocks, REIT, and bonds.

Who Is Rick Ferri?

Rick Ferri, also known as Richard Ferri, is a financial analyst, author, speaker, former adviser, and founder of Portfolio Solutions, LLC. He has written various financial articles.

Rules Of Core Four Portfolio

The rules of Core Four Portfolio is simple. It invests its 60% allocation to stocks and 40% to bonds. It mainly invest in US, international stock, REIT, and bond market.
Core Four Portfolio

This 4 fund portfolio is well like by followers in Bogleheads.

The portfolio can be applied with an investment in a low cost US total stock market index fund, along with direct investments in US, international stock, REIT, and bond market. It can also be implemented with low-cost ETFs (exchange-traded funds).

How to Invest

You can invest in this Core Four portfolio through Vanguard mutual funds or Vanguard ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds).

June 7, 2017

Permanent Portfolio: 4 Fund

Permanent portfolio is one of well-known 4-fund investment portfolios. This permanent portfolio is introduced by free-market investment analyst Harry Browne in 1980.

This lazy portfolio is a buy-and-hold portfolio that contains a healthy allocation to gold. The portfolio holds equal allocations of gold, domestic stocks, short-term treasury bonds, and long term treasury bonds.

Who is Harry Browne?

Permanent Portfolio: 4 FundHarry Browne was an American writer, politician, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party's Presidential nominee in the U.S. elections of 1996 and 2000

Rules of Permanent Portfolio

The rules of Permanent Portfolio is simple. It invests its 25% allocation gold, domestic stocks, short-term treasury bonds, and long term treasury bonds.

This 4 fund portfolio is well like by followers in Bogleheads.

May 31, 2017

Couch Potato Portfolio

Couch Potato portfolio is one of well-known 3-fund investment portfolios. This coach potato portfolio is introduced by Scott Burns. It is also known as Andrew Tobias' Three Fund portfolio.

Who is Scott Burns?

Scott Burns is a newspaper columnist and author. He has covered personal finance and investments for over 30 years. He is known for creating the "Couch Potato Portfolio" investment strategy. This investment strategy advocates the use of index funds over managed funds or stock-picking.

Rules of Couch Potato Portfolio

Couch Potato PortfolioThe rules of Scott Burns’ Couch Potato Portfolio is simple. It invests its 33% allocation to inflation-protected securities, 34% allocation to US stock market, and 33% to international stock market. It mainly invest in US, international stock, and bond market (TIPS).

How to Invest

You can invest in this Couch Potato Portfolio through mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Below are the list.

May 24, 2017

Taylor Larimore’s Three-Fund Portfolio: 60/40

Taylor Larimore’s Three-Fund Portfolio is a well-known 3-fund investment portfolio. This 3 fund portfolio is introduced by Taylor Larimore. Taylor Larimore is well known professional investor among Boglehead.

Who is Taylor Larimore?

Taylor Larimore was labeled by MONEY magazine as "The Dean of the Vanguard Diehards." Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, calls Taylor "King of the Bogleheads." Taylor is extraordinarily well-versed after having spent most of his 83 years in the real world of finance and investments

Rules of Taylor Larimore’s Three-Fund Portfolio

Taylor Larimore’s Three-Fund PortfolioThe rules of Taylor Larimore’s Three-Fund Portfolio is simple. It invests its 60% allocation to world-wide stocks (42% in US stocks and 18% in international stocks) and 40% to bonds. It mainly invest in US, international stock, and bond market.

This portfolio is well like by followers in Bogleheads.

How to Invest

You can invest in this Taylor Larimore’s Three-Fund Portfolio through mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

May 18, 2017

Rick Ferri’s 60/40 Portfolio: Two Fund Portfolio

Rick Ferri’s 60/40 Portfolio is a well-known 2 fund portfolio. This 2 fund portfolio is a well-known lazy portfolio. Rick Ferri is well known investor professional among Boglehead.

Who is Rick Ferri?

Rick Ferri, also known as Richard Ferri, is a financial analyst, author, speaker, former adviser, and founder of Portfolio Solutions, LLC. He has written various financial articles.

Rules of Rick Ferri’s 60/40 Portfolio

The rules of Rick Ferri’s 60/40 Portfolio is simple. It invests its 60% allocation to world-wide stocks and 40% to bonds. It mainly invest in US, international stock, and bond market.

This portfolio is well like by followers in Bogleheads.

How to Invest

Rick Ferri’s 60/40 Portfolio: Two Fund PortfolioYou can invest in this Bogle’s 50-50 Portfolio through mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Below are the list. You can buy these investment funds through your brokerage.

Vanguard Mutual Funds

  • Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX)

May 12, 2017

Bogle’s 50-50 Portfolio

Bogle’s 50-50 Portfolio is popularized by Jack Bogle. Jack is the 88-year old founder of Vanguard Group. Vanguard is one of the world's largest mutual fund companies.

Rules of Bogle’s 50-50 Portfolio

The rules of Bogle’s 50-50 Portfolio is simple. This two funds portfolio invests its 50% allocation to U.S. stocks and 50% to bonds via index funds. It mainly invest in US stock only and US bond market only. This means he doesn’t invest in international stocks. Bogle also doesn’t invest in currency and other asset classes such as international stocks, and international bonds.

This portfolio is well like by Bogle followers in Bogleheads. Some people may consider this type of investment portfolio as moderate allocation portfolio.

How to Invest

Bogle’s 50-50 PortfolioYou can invest in this Bogle’s 50-50 Portfolio through mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Below are the list. You can buy these investment funds through your brokerage.

Note: The performance may be slightly different due to expense fee, tracking error, active management funds, etc.

Mutual Funds

Vanguard Mutual Funds

  • Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund Investor Shares (VBMFX)

June 12, 2016

Donald Trump Investment Funds

Donald Trump made his fortune the old-fashioned way through Real Estate. Other than real estate, Donald Trump invests in Baron Capital Management mutual funds and other alternative funds including hedge funds.

Donald Trump Background

Donald John Trump is one of the most popular American businessmen. He is the current nominee of Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He became the host and executive producer of the NBC reality show The Apprentice, in which a group of competitors battled for a high-level management job in one of Trump's commercial enterprises in 2013.

Donald Trump Investment Funds List

The Donald Trump Investment Funds are listed in current Mr. Trump's financial disclosure report. According to the report, Mr. Trump lists a net worth of at least $1.35 billion in his companies and real estate holdings plus at least $70.5 million in liquid assets. Some of these funds are part of hedge funds.

Top Donald Trump’s mutual funds are:
    Donald Trump Investment Funds
  1. Baron Partners Fund (BPTRX) ($1 million-$5 million)
  2. Baron Growth Fund (BGRFX) ($1 million-$5 million)
  3. Baron Emerging Markets Fund (BEXFX) ($250,001-$500,000)
  4. Baron Energy and Resources Fund (BENFX) ($100,001-$250,000
  5. Baron Emerging Markets Fund Institutional (BEXFX) ($250,001-$500,000)

February 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton Investment Funds

Hillary Clinton is a former first lady. As a wife of Bill Clinton, Hillary is also a former United States senator from New York. She is also part of President Barrack Obama cabinet. She held a Secretary of State position.

Hillary Clinton has the mutual-fund portfolio of a politician. She is well known to be closed to well-known investors, Warren Buffet. As one of the democratic presidential candidates in 2016 election, she also invests in investment funds.

If you are interested in other presidential candidate portfolios, you can find my review in future date. Other presidential candidates for 2016 election are Donald Trump, Bernie Sander, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, etc. Whether you are Republican, Democrat or independent, you can learn from these politicians how to invest.

Clinton Portfolio

Hillary Clinton 2016By looking at recent financial disclosure, Hillary only hold one investment fund.

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