9.01.2022
7.20.2022
Seems legit
WSJ:
Calpers’ stock portfolio returned minus 13.1%, while bonds returned minus 14.5%, the pension fund said. Those losses delivered a double blow for retirement funds and other savers who have long relied on those two assets to move in opposite directions.It's a CalPERS miracle!
Private equity and real estate returned 21.3% and 24.1%, respectively.
4.23.2022
Quotations from Chairman Varones
Inflation is progressive utopians encountering resource constraints for the first time.
4.08.2022
Taxable brokerage vs. traditional 401(k) account
The common wisdom says pre-tax 401(k)s and IRAs beat taxable accounts hands-down. But it's not so clear to me. If you put buy-and-hold stocks or index funds in a taxable brokerage account, it's actually remarkably tax-efficient because of the ability to defer capital gains, and the preferable tax rates on dividends and capital gains.
Here's a spreadsheet where you can play with the assumptions (you'll have to make a copy for yourself to edit): link.
Yes, traditional beats taxable in simplified base case, but this ignores:
- tax loss harvesting
- HIFO withdrawals
- foreign tax credits
- higher potential future tax rates
1.10.2022
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