So it goes way beyond U.S. vs. International. My read on this is that it's kind of Jack Bogle's old arguments for owning only TSM if you're a U.S.-based investor writ large. U.S.-based mega-corporations, since the '08 crisis, have become irreversibly dominant, at least in the short run. The fact th...

I ran across this new ETF today and it has an interesting asset allocation I have never quite seen before. It mixes Utility stocks with LT Treasuries and Gold to create a safe haven ETF that actually outperforms the PP over the last 12 years (albeit with higher volatility). It definitely outperforme...

I run it with three ETFs, personally. I have replaced the t-bills part with real cash, meaning a savings account. I don't see anything wrong with that, and I'm surprised that you'd say "only 4 ETFs". Isn't that the beauty of the PP, its simplicity? It is but a huge amount of posts in this forum are...

Just for my interest, how many people here run a basic PP with only 4 ETFs? Do you feel comfortable with your funds in only a limited number of vehicles?

I will admit I am drawn to the “doom porn” crowd and think daily of jettisoning the PP and going to cash/gold for an impending financial market collapse. My common sense tells me that a population that wants endless “free” stuff and politicians determined to give it to them will not end well. But th...

Only 1. I am using M1 Finance because of their "pie" system and fractional shares. I don't want to go back to a regular brokerage where I have to place individual orders for each ETF. The downside is they don't offer individual bonds so I have to be satisfied with ETFs for the bond portions.

Is there any reason to not do EDV for the LT portion other than the added volatility? I make my stock portion more volatile by focusing on more growth stocks and leaving out utility and consumer staple stocks. So I feel like the higher volatility of the two assets cancel each other out a bit.

I don't understand how international stocks fit into the theme of the PP. The PP is designed to reflect the possible economic states at any given time. And that can vary from county to country. If you are using US LT Treasuries for deflation and US ST Treasuries for recession, why would you not use ...

But these things are not going to show up in Excel. There is no =IDIOTPOLITICIAN(A2:A11) function you can call. There is no way for you to anticipate what actions they will take to lie about the situation. And, there is no way for you to know how the markets are going to react to the mess. Which al...

But these things are not going to show up in Excel. There is no =IDIOTPOLITICIAN(A2:A11) function you can call. There is no way for you to anticipate what actions they will take to lie about the situation. And, there is no way for you to know how the markets are going to react to the mess. Which al...

At a certain portfolio size does it make any sense to buy multiple gold ETFs to spread counter party risk or is that splitting hairs?

I am drawn to the idea of holding a basket of 30 individual stocks. But how do you go about doing it without bias slipping in? Either because you don’t like a specific company for whatever reason or you have a bad feeling about an industry etc. And once you start stock picking then you may deviate f...