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think about the best managers you've had in your career and try and figure out what they did to allow you to be the most effective IC you can be. also note that not all industries are the same. traditionally the only way to make more money was to take on management, but tech in particular has thrown...

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Our preference would be to file our taxes as MFJ and were planning on using the nonresident spouse option; I think my confusion stems from not understanding the difference between a tax resident and a resident from an immigration perspective. you won't have a preference. if she lives in the US with...

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i have both. i own multiple policies and created a ladder. every 5 years or so a policy will lapse. i kind of view my employment life insurance as the "top-up" portion of the ladder.

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not a fan of the quote. it's a bit hypocritical to claim "nobody knows nothing" yet push the narrative that index funds are superior.

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ChinchillaWhiplash wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:20 pm 3.875% mortgage fixed.

refinance? rates have been creeping up but you should still be able to get a 30yr in the high 2s.

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i have a spreadsheet. every time i trade anything in any account, i add a row. if it's a sell, i add the ticker to the "no buy" list. 31 days later, i remove it from the "no buy" list. that's it. super simple and i've never had a wash sale in years. Do you mean "If it's a s...

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i have a spreadsheet. every time i trade anything in any account, i add a row. if it's a sell, i add the ticker to the "no buy" list. 31 days later, i remove it from the "no buy" list. that's it. super simple and i've never had a wash sale in years.

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wow, y'all make some impressive incomes, congrats! it's slightly amusing to me that some pay more in taxes than the gross income specified in the OP.

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just means it's locked and loaded to come save the day the next time stocks crash.

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1) VT holds at the world market cap, which is currently around 55/45 US/ex-US. you're at 74% US so it's a significant difference from your existing allocation. if you're worried about emerging markets you can sell both SCHF and SCHE for IXUS or VXUS which will hold EM at the market cap, so at least ...

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^The answer is: It won't matter. The proper allocation (whatever it is as long as it is not extreme) will not matter when one is spending 1% to 2% of one's portfolio annually. it won't matter because you have so much money. but, i think your objectives change when you get there. for many, the goal ...

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a house is absolutely an investment because its expected appreciation exceeds the cost of maintenance/upkeep. it's a very illiquid investment, but an investment nonetheless. my home value increased 8% in 2020. i did not pay extra principal. if i take out a HELOC right now i can get a much higher li...

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It seems like you've already decided that you want to keep a mortgage in retirement no matter what. That's fine, but there's no disputing that there is greater risk by doing so. There is no 'insurance' to it. If you pay off your mortgage, you eliminate downside risk and get a guaranteed return gene...

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Most asset allocation formulas ignore home equity and other non financial / less liquid assets. Some suggest AA should be a function of net wealth, but no discussion on that that means beyond that. IMHO, home value should be part of net wealth AA, but not related to the net bond part. I guess you w...

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I agree that 100/0 isn't an appropriate total AA for a retiree, but that's not what I was suggesting. It wouldn't make any sense right now to take out a 3% mortgage to turn around and invest it in 1% bonds. That's negative arbitrage. The only real hope that those have for retaining a mortgage is th...

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Without getting into the math, debt of all kinds acts as leverage, and leverage makes the good times better but the bad times worse. If your portfolio performs poorly (i.e., negative returns), you don't get to delay paying your mortgage until your portfolio recovers. You must make that mortgage pay...

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Maybe 15 years ago I was told by a financial advisor I may have my head handed to me after retirement. Kind of scary, but somehow I wrote it off. Then a decade ago I did some calculations. Dividends and cap gains in taxable, check. SS Income (@70 of course), check. Pension income, check. Real estat...

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no, you cannot delay payments, but you can own enough bonds such that it will never happen. you could create 3 buckets, first bucket ensures you always have enough bonds to meet your mortgage payment obligations, second bucket of bonds for your minimum standard of living, and the rest in stocks. an...

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how so? you could retire at 65, take out a mortgage and you more or less know your monthly costs for the next 30 years. during accumulation years, you might lose your job and income, preventing you from making your payment and losing the house. it's the complete opposite during retirement. you know...

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What i have found helpful is thinking about how i want things to look at retirement and then working backwards: 1) At retirement, i want a pension, a paid off house , and a prudently-allocated investment portfolio. having a paid off house is very common advice, but at the same time, if your SWR rat...

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What i have found helpful is thinking about how i want things to look at retirement and then working backwards: 1) At retirement, i want a pension, a paid off house , and a prudently-allocated investment portfolio. having a paid off house is very common advice, but at the same time, if your SWR rat...

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Most asset allocation formulas ignore home equity and other non financial / less liquid assets. Some suggest AA should be a function of net wealth, but no discussion on that that means beyond that. IMHO, home value should be part of net wealth AA, but not related to the net bond part. I guess you w...

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My thinking goes like this. Since I view all of my accounts with one global asset allocation, and if the tax benefit of a 529 means growth is tax-free if used for college, wouldn't I best keep bonds in a 401k and keep equities in a 529? If equities outperform, yippee, more free college. If equities...

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https://www.cboe.com/us/indices/dashboard/PPUT/

not every site can chart the ticker, google can. and while 5 years is very short it sure did really well last year.

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Comments about 75% market drop and taking 20 years to recover is getting kind of ridiculous. If this happens there will be problems waaay beyond the stock market. yes and no. the stock market is not the economy. the entire world economy shut down because of the pandemic yet the return for 2020 was ...

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I've been investing since 2007. Up until very recently when I increased international ever so slightly, I held a 56/24/20 U.S./International/U.S. bond allocation. I was wondering how much the bonds hurt me. I compared that to a 100% equity allocation at 60/40 U.S./International allocation and it se...

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for me, i think it's when my yearly salary is the same as the typical daily fluctuation of my portfolio.

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surprised to see other posters say there's no rules of thumb. if a rule of thumb for rent is 1/3 your paycheck it's not much different to replace rent with mortgage+taxes+maintenance. plug that number into a neighborhood of choice and you will get a number. that number will tell you what kind of hou...

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The reason you have an emergency fund is so that you don't have to sell your investments. Of course, I'm also not going to watch my investments drop 50%. as evidenced by multiple EF threads every month or so, there is not universal agreement whether one should have a dedicated EF or whether it's in...

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the primary reason why i'm invested in LTTs is for the negative correlation with stocks, not for its yield. the SEC yield is currently 1.88%. well, the fund goes up/down that much every day, which makes the yield seem irrelevant by comparison. if stocks drop 50% my home equity won't suddenly increa...

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So it seems to me that there must be some reason to hold bonds and that reason can't simply be behavioral, in my view. There definitely ARE real benefits to owning bonds. The problem is that a mortgage essentially represents a direct cancellation of those benefits, and typically lowers returns as w...

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So it seems to me that there must be some reason to hold bonds and that reason can't simply be behavioral, in my view. There definitely ARE real benefits to owning bonds. The problem is that a mortgage essentially represents a direct cancellation of those benefits, and typically lowers returns as w...

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However, if I put my bond money to the mortgage, count the principal reduction/difference as part of my bond allocation, then equities crash, I'm heavy on bonds with no way to rebalance my portfolio. Another consideration. My mortgage has 29 years left. I can put extra money to it and be guaranteed...

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This thread is something out of an alternate universe. Come on, people. A bond is a bond. It has two sides. They cancel out. Yep. It's mindboggling. It really boils down to people being told a few things: 1) if you buy bonds, you'll reduce the volatility in your portfolio and get a smaller return 2...

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Before you pay anything down, do remember that a mortgage has an implied call option on interest rates that you "forfeit" by just prepaying. Depending on your mortgage rate, you might actually come out ahead by just buying bonds and selling call options. This often gets ignored in these c...

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my fuss is that this invalidates many of the most common recommendations out there. age in bonds is invalid. minimum 20% bonds is invalid. target date funds are invalid. “Age in bonds” and “at least 20% in bonds” were never good recommendations, regardless of where you come down on this topic. The ...

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What am I missing? After sufficient liquidity / emergency fund is established, it does not make sense, from a purely financial perspective, to invest in any fixed income that has an expected return lower than the effective interest rate of your mortgage. There may be psychological reasons why an in...

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i used to have a separate age glide path for my 529s but have since ditched into for 100% stock. i figured that if i was going to help my kids go to college then it doesn't really matter which bucket i take it from. 100% in the 529 has the highest chance of least taxes paid.

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Reduced volatility is only relative to your investment portfolio, not your net worth. If you have $500K in stock and the stock market loses half its value, you lose $250K, which is the same fraction of your net worth whether you sell all your bonds to pay down your mortgage or not. this ignores the...

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The statements are true if you place a REASONABLE value on how bonds interact with stocks in a portfolio. That value clearly isn't zero, but it's also not 90bps a year. Not for intermediate-term bonds, anyway. that i can agree with. soooo, as someone who started the thread on recommending the first...

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The difference between A and B is known. You will come out ahead or behind with A by the difference between bond yields and mortgage rates. In scenario B, if the bond yields are less than the mortgage rates, the bond payments will not quite cover the mortgage payments, so you have to make up the di...

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canadianbacon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:13 pm Ben Felix timely as ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HrepdLSu4

from all the examples in the video it looks like ARKK is going to drop any time now.

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We’re trying to explain that you erroneously gave one scenario more wealth than the other scenario. Your scenarios aren’t comparable. ok, let's correct it. scenario A: 500k stocks, 0 bonds, no mortgage. after 50% drop = 250k portfolio value. you cannot rebalance because you have nothing else to buy...

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If they are truly risk averse enough to want a 60/40 portfolio in their investment accounts, why are they ALSO using the leverage of a mortgage? After all, an investor with $60k in stocks, $40k in bonds, a $100k house, and a $40k mortgage is ACTUALLY taking roughly the same OVERALL risk as someone ...

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The other thing I'd say about the "general investing priority order" is that the investor should always be using their asset allocation as a gut check for where they are in the order: if you get to 40% in bonds in your market portfolio BEFORE you get to #9 on that list, you've probably ma...

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Cash flows are not assets. They are cash flows. ETA : But, I am willing to sell you my future SS cash flows for $1.7 million. So I will have an asset. your expected future cashflow has an impact on your "ability, willingness, need" to take risk. if you wanted to retire with a $100k income...

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It's interesting to me, that being short TBills to leverage long S&P 500, monthly rebalanced, had higher returns and lower standard deviation then UPRO PV Link this is more or less what it looks like to invest on margin. BIV is a bit too cheap, so i swapped in SHY instead. PV I wouldn't recomme...

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Let me ask you this, because I am curious on your thinking at this point . Your $500,000 example is OK. But image it is $2 M. If you are in a balanced portfolio (60/40), thus $800,000 in safe government bonds (low risk). Would paying your mortgage make sense to you at this point if at the same time...

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turning off dividend reinvestment also makes tax loss harvesting much simpler.

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JoMoney wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:24 am It's interesting to me, that being short TBills to leverage long S&P 500, monthly rebalanced, had higher returns and lower standard deviation then UPRO
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this is more or less what it looks like to invest on margin. BIV is a bit too cheap, so i swapped in SHY instead. PV

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