We discuss the risk of stock investing and point out that investing in a broad base stock index fund in a very long period of time has very little risk. However, for shorter periods like 15 or even 20 years, the investment is still subject to valuation risk. 

Consumer staples stocks have delivered better long term returns with lower risk than the main stock index.  

We look at current stock valuation and discuss their long term trends. 

We look at historical underperformance of tactical strategies and found that the current one is not the worst for the past 38 years or so. 

We introduced core satellite balanced portfolio and discuss their returns against the best allocation fund. 

We discuss in details the safety of money market funds. 

We review and discuss bond investments. 

We review tactical portfolios and discussed their behavior.  

We review asset and strategic portfolio returns in 2018 and discuss stock valuation and outlook for the new year. 

We tried to understand the 3% ‘checking & savings’ offering from online brokerage Robinhood. We also looked at market trends. 

We look at the current REIT valuation and discuss its role in the current market environment. 

We looked at a conservative hybrid core satellite portfolio that combines both static and tactical portfolios. 

We review some of the best US asset allocation funds. 

Brief review of current markets

Four big banks are still offering close to nothing interest to their customers, an amazing phenomenon considering now the interest rate is about 2.3%. 

Right or wrong decision for a short term market direction is not equal to long term investing performance. 

We discuss a possible modification of our taxable total return bond fund portfolios with addition of muni bond funds. We also comment on our strategies for the current market condition. 

We review DoubleLine CAPE Based US and International Funds — The funds are long term stock valuation metric based while employing momentum technique. 

We add the newsletters published in the past six months to our newsletter collection. 

We look closely at the current asset trends, especially US stock market internals.