Do-It-Yourself Investing

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Professor Robert C. Merton is a Nobel Prize winner in economics that specializes in market analysis and modeling. It's useful to differentiate between people like this who have developed methodologies based on analyzing large quantities of data, he says. "This does provide us with a good litmus test for judging whether an idea in personal finance has much credence" Mike writes: 'Growth stocks are not stocks but bundles of options and thus key determinant of value is volatility'

In this episode we answer emails from Alexi (a/k/a "the Dude"), the effervescent MyContactInfo, and Mike. We discuss a Portfolio Visualizer fund selection tool for factor investing, Merton and other academics, and an uncannily familiar diversified portfolio recently featured in a Marketwatch article. And we play some Motorhead and rant about financial media a bit.

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:

Portfolio Visualizer Fund Factor Attribution Tool: Mutual Fund and ETF Factor Performance Attribution (portfoliovisualizer.com)

Rational Reminder Interview of Robert C. Merton: Episode 234: Prof. Robert C. Merton: ICAPM, Retirement, and Models in Finance — Rational Reminder

MarketWatch Article: This 'crazy' retirement portfolio has just beaten Wall Street for 50 years - MarketWatch

Easy Improvements to Marketwatch-featured portfolio: Backtest Portfolio Asset Class Allocation (portfoliovisualizer.com)

EconoMe Conference: Programming & Activities - EconoMe (economeconference.com)