Episode 284: Goring Assorted Sacred Cows And Bad Decision-Making Processes, Checking Out Value-Weighting And Portfolio Reviews As Of August 18, 2023
Episode description
In this episode we answer emails from Jimmy, John and MyContactInfo. We discuss the foibles of trying to make investment decisions based on news, politics or macro-economic events, Joel Greenblatt's investment methodologies re value-weighting from 2010 and where there are today, and learn some more from Professor Aswath Damodaran about why you cannot use market valuation metrics and P/E ratios as a basis for decision-making in investing.
And THEN we our go through our weekly portfolio reviews of the seven sample portfolios you can find at Portfolios | Risk Parity Radio.
Additional links:
Truflation -- Realtime Inflation Data: Independent, economic & financial data in real time on-chain (truflation.com)
Daniela Di Martino Video re Jay Powell and Truflation: Ted Oakley and DiMartino Booth on Fed policy, employment implications, and debt implications - YouTube
Hugh Hendry and Jim Bianco debating Interest Rates and Inflation: Macro Musings with Jim Bianco (preview) - YouTube
Value-Weighted Indexing Site (circa 2011): Value Weighted Index – A New Approach to Long-Term Investing
Gotham Funds (Greenblatt Managed): Home Page : Gotham (gothamfunds.com)
Portfolio Visualizer Backtest of GVALX: Backtest Portfolio Asset Allocation (portfoliovisualizer.com)
Professor Damodaran's Latest And Greatest: Musings on Markets: The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor! (aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)