About this episode

The episode discusses listener emails and explores risk parity investing, drawdown portfolios, and practical fund questions.

In this episode we answer emails from Andrew, Geoff, and Frank. We discuss connecting risk parity investing to a bigger question: how to build a drawdown portfolio you can hold while using money to live a full life. Along the way we share a Fairfax CASA story, dig into narrative psychology, and answer practical fund questions on modifying the sample Golden Ratio portfolio, large cap stock funds, managed futures, and what beta does and does not tell you. Links: Fairfax CASA Donation P...

People in this episode

Host: Frank Vasquez

Topics covered

• risk parity investing
• drawdown portfolio
• narrative psychology
• fund questions
• Golden Ratio portfolio

Keywords

• risk parity
• drawdown portfolio
• Golden Ratio
• managed futures
• large cap stocks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fairfax CASA

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