Fund name, please?EmergDoc wrote:Frontier microcap value?
What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Why not look at the 2000-2002 crash?nisiprius wrote:Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
So REITs dropped a lot in a bear market brought on by the collapse of a real estate bubble. Hard to imagine why that would be.nisiprius wrote:Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
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That was its name. Fund is gone. That's as risky as it gets. Bit of EmergDoc humor there.baw703916 wrote:Fund name, please?EmergDoc wrote:Frontier microcap value?
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
+1baw703916 wrote:So REITs dropped a lot in a bear market brought on by the collapse of a real estate bubble. Hard to imagine why that would be.nisiprius wrote:Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
for after tax $:tadamsmar wrote:What the single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate? Is it SV mutual funds?
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
lol.. and take a guess on how Nasdaq (QQQ) did during the tech bubblebaw703916 wrote:So REITs dropped a lot in a bear market brought on by the collapse of a real estate bubble. Hard to imagine why that would be.nisiprius wrote:Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
It's almost back to where it was in the 2000 high...Gambler wrote: lol.. and take a guess on how Nasdaq (QQQ) did during the tech bubble
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Human capital. It's the only one that virtually everyone is encouraged to hedge against its loss.tadamsmar wrote:What the single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate?
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Yes, but I don't think QQQ is a "Bogleheadish asset."Gambler wrote:lol.. and take a guess on how Nasdaq (QQQ) did during the tech bubblebaw703916 wrote:So REITs dropped a lot in a bear market brought on by the collapse of a real estate bubble. Hard to imagine why that would be.nisiprius wrote:Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Because I plead guilty to putting more mental weight on downside risk than upside risk.denovo wrote:nisiprius wrote:Why not look at the 2000-2002 crash?
Parenthetically, 2000-2002 is interesting. That's a period of time during which several of the popular "low correlation," "diversifier" asset classes actually did what people hoped for them, namely going up, meaningfully, while stocks in general were going down. REITs and small value did just that.
They also both crashed worse than the market in 2008-2009, which represents diversification, too. The benefits of diversification are not the gross benefits of a 2000-2002, they are the net benefits of all the 2000-2002's after you subtract all the 2008-2009's!
An interesting question is: did 2000-2002 really illustrate "typical" behavior for these asset classes, or was it just a one-off event? It's my opinion that many asset classes make their reputation by one-time behavior, that gets generalized into statements that say "when X happens, asset class Y tends to do Z..."
(Something that sometimes escapes notice is that during 2000-2002, these "low-correlation" stock asset classes didn't actually do all that much better than Total Bond, which, unlike REITs and small value, did not crash during 2008-2009...)
We can, of course, also look at standard deviation as a measure of risk, and if I do this, using Morningstar's 15-year values--the longest time period available, and including 2000-2002 as well as 2008-2009--I see this, in order from largest to smallest:
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX), 23.57
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX), 22.23
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), 22.18
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), 21.19
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), 19.17
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX ) 15.89
As is customary, Morningstar doesn't give us the slightest help in guessing what the margin of error on these numbers is. (Doesn't it seem strange to you that every poll in the world does that, when all that's at stake is curiosity about public opinion... but when actual money is involved, no?)
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Careful.denovo wrote:+1baw703916 wrote:So REITs dropped a lot in a bear market brought on by the collapse of a real estate bubble. Hard to imagine why that would be.nisiprius wrote:Trying to take the question in the spirit in which I think the poster meant it, I would say REITs are the "winner," with emerging markets stock a close runner-up, because in 2008-2009,
Vanguard REIT Index (VGSIX) dropped more than
Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index (VISVX), or
DFA US Micro Cap (DFSCX), or
DFA US Small-Cap Value (DFSVX), or
Vanguard Emerging Markets (VEIEX)
The RE bubble that collapsed was largely a *residential* RE bubble. At least in the USA.
REITs (non mortgage REITs) are basically only exposed to residential (directly) via rental apartments. Rental apartments are a contra cyclical housing asset-- when Americans don't buy homes, they rent apartments.
What happened in 2008-09 was a *financial* bubble blowing up. The effect on REITs was:
- REITs are leveraged and so the possibility that they would not be able to roll over their real estate loans and CMBS (usual terms are 5-10 years) means that they could be insolvent.
- the valuation basis of Commercial RE collapsed. The buildings were still there, the tenants were still paying rent, the loans were still being paid on time BUT the buildings were worth say (40%) on average of pre Bubble. There was a lot of highly leveraged RE out there (Harry Macklin in NYC bought something like $5bn of buildings from Equity Office Properties (Blackstone public to private of the largest REIT) with $250m of equity) and the loan-to-value covenants on the loans were blown.
The market was working on the basis that the banks would repossess (they eventually did) and there would be fire sales (relatively less a factor). A la the S&L workout of the early 1990s.
The market was also probably forecasting a big fall in financial services occupancy. Whereas in say California that was true, in the biggest RE markets (NYC Downtown and Midtown are the 2 biggest office districts in the USA, Midtown perhaps in the world) that was not the case to the same extent, despite bankruptcy of Lehmans (Canary Wharf/ Songbird took a hit on that, which they had insured-- with AIG! ).
- where CRE did collapse was in things like tertiary retail: that website with all the empty shopping malls in OC CA. However say in NYC, that was not the case.
- general economic distress then hit occupancy and rental growth (still is). As usual hotels and leisure properties got hit hardest (fall in consumer and business spending).
What can we learn from all of this about the quoted REIT sector?
- it behaves like a high beta stock during a bear market
- if the cause of the bear market is financial system ructions, it is 'double down' as both financials, and as leveraged stocks
- added to a portfolio it can *increase* rather than decrease volatility during a crisis
It has all made me much more cautious about suggesting a separate REIT rating. I don't believe 'but it recovered quickly in 2009' is a good answer-- there was no way of knowing that the US CRE market would wind up as it did vs. as it did in say, Dublin (nuclear winter until recently). I've lived through a couple of CRE crashes (London early 1990s, Toronto same time, Boston same time) to know how long they take to work through.
The diversification benefits of REITs may just have declined in recent years due to the increased exposure of the sector to quoted markets: both on the equity side (REITs) and the debt side (CMBS freely traded and widely used).
I also think that valuation is important in investing in RE.* It's one thing to buy in at cap rates of 7-8% (1999) it's another at 4% (now). You need a *lot* of rental growth, if your cap rate is 4% to get to even 5-6%. London office market, although cap rates on prime prime are back to almost 2008 level, there is little evidence of rental growth. That is true of UK CRE in general.
* you make your money in CRE from the income flow, not the price appreciation. Since payout is 90% in a REIT, where you start in income yield, and what dividend growth rate you get, is important.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
nisiprius wrote:Because I plead guilty to putting more mental weight on downside risk than upside risk.denovo wrote:nisiprius wrote:Why not look at the 2000-2002 crash?
Parenthetically, 2000-2002 is interesting. That's a period of time during which several of the popular "low correlation," "diversifier" asset classes actually did what people hoped for them, namely going up, meaningfully, while stocks in general were going down. REITs and small value did just that. )
It's a valuation story.
In 1999 REITs were cheap relative to prevailing interest rates and stock market PEs. US stock market was yielding less than 2%, PEs were inflated, REITs were yielding say 6% (I'd have to check). The bubble, when it blew, was an equity bubble (Tech Media Telecom) and a debt bubble (loans to those companies). Then you had a bear market on utilities after Enron blew and the 2 CA utilities went broke.
It was the era of the 'super growth' stock, like GE. 30 buy ratings and 2 holds from the sell side analysts. Briefly the world's largest company (Cisco also).
There were a lot of 'value' sectors like oil & gas (the Economist had had a headline when oil was $10/bl, could it go to $5?), real estate etc. Paying 4-5% yields and on PEs of 12x when the market was 30-40x.
The low correlation of REITs in that period was, I think, largely a product of the correction of its undervaluation relative to a market which was hugely overvalued.
You won't see that again unless REITs start a bear market significantly undervalued relative to the market as a whole.
The lack of correlation is actually created by an underlying trend in the data-- if one stream is going down, and the other is going up due to structural factors (re rating of REITs by the market) it will look uncorrelated.
Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Thank you, I have all 3 in my portfolio!nedsaid wrote:My best guess would be 1) REITs, 2) Small Cap Value, and 3) Emerging Markets in order of riskiness. These help put the "Tiger in your tank."
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5% VEMAX Vanguard Emerging Markets Index Fund <<< 20% total International funds
12% VSIAX Vanguard Small Cap Value Fund (tilt)
7% VGSLX Vanguard REIT fund (real estate)
Bonds 23%
12% TSP G fund
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+1.G-Money wrote:Or possibly one's human capital.livesoft wrote:Maybe it is one's home?
Without this, it would not be possible to put any savings in any of these assets, "risky" or not...
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
On the other hand total bond "crashed" during the 70s and provided 0 real return for the decade while SV (REITs to a much less extent) had a great decade. Is that the typical behavior of bonds or is the behavior we have had during the last 30 years of declining interest rates?:)nisiprius wrote: An interesting question is: did 2000-2002 really illustrate "typical" behavior for these asset classes, or was it just a one-off event? It's my opinion that many asset classes make their reputation by one-time behavior, that gets generalized into statements that say "when X happens, asset class Y tends to do Z..."
(Something that sometimes escapes notice is that during 2000-2002, these "low-correlation" stock asset classes didn't actually do all that much better than Total Bond, which, unlike REITs and small value, did not crash during 2008-2009...)
A lot comes down to what you are seeking with diversification. If it is just making the drops a little less,nothing beats bonds. You might not make money but your very unlikly to lose a ton. On the other hand studies have suggested that diversified (international, small value, REITS,...) can boost SWR by about .25 to.5% over what trinity portfolios (S&P 500 and bonds) but there will still be periods of volatility on the order of stocks.
Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
One's personal residence could be the riskiest asset, depending upon your definition. Extreme concentration of capital/lack of diversification, with far more adverse consequences for many people in the latest crash than the charted assets being discussed above.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Tadamsmar:tadamsmar wrote:What the single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate? Is it SV mutual funds?
For the 10 years ending December 2013, Vanguard's CA Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund had the worst return of any Vanguard Fund with a cumulative return of 13.4%.*
Vanguard's Energy Fund had the best cumulative return of 246.1%*
* Source: 2014 Independent Guide to the Vanguard Funds
It could be argued that Vanguard's CA Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund was the "riskiest."
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On this side of the keyboard.
I just took a look at the mirror and found the riskiest asset--on this side of the keyboard the riskiest asset is this writer.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
I hope everyone sees that this thread is a little over 1 year old.tadamsmar [OP] » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:52 am wrote:What the single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate? Is it SV mutual funds?
The "single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate" is that which someone buys/owns but doesn't really understand - this, regardless if Bogleheads (or anyone) advocate(s) it.
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^Finally a correct answer!YDNAL wrote:I hope everyone sees that this thread is a little over 1 year old.tadamsmar [OP] » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:52 am wrote:What the single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate? Is it SV mutual funds?
The "single riskiest asset that Bogleheads advocate" is that which someone buys/owns but doesn't really understand - this, regardless if Bogleheads (or anyone) advocate(s) it.
It can't be ISCV because both of my core ISCV funds have had better returns with smaller standard deviations than their large caps brethrens. SFILX vs. VEA and DGS vs. VWO.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
are there any risky Boggleeadish asset?!nisiprius wrote:Yes, but I don't think QQQ is a "Bogleheadish asset."
I wouldn't think slice and dice into SV or REIT is risky. in fact, it's common.
heck, i don't slicing and dicing into any sector by overweighing it by 5% is that risky.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
The joke in my post is that there has yet to be a good Frontier fund of any type!Christine_NM wrote:That was its name. Fund is gone. That's as risky as it gets. Bit of EmergDoc humor there.baw703916 wrote:Fund name, please?EmergDoc wrote:Frontier microcap value?
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
We should understand what we purchase (not because "it's common"), since "risk" will materialize when our *hopes* don't materialize, and we abandon that purchase at the worse possible moment.Gambler wrote:I wouldn't think slice and dice into SV or REIT is risky. in fact, it's common.
heck, i don't [think] slicing and dicing into any sector by overweighing it by 5% is that risky.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Bogleheads,
I have both Vanguard Emerging Markets and Vanguard Reit fund in my portfolio. To make it less volatile, which one could I drop??
I hold 5% of each one within the total portfolio.
The core is
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index
Vanguard International Index fund
Vanguard Total Bond Index fund
Vanguard Small Caps Value Fund
I have both Vanguard Emerging Markets and Vanguard Reit fund in my portfolio. To make it less volatile, which one could I drop??
I hold 5% of each one within the total portfolio.
The core is
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index
Vanguard International Index fund
Vanguard Total Bond Index fund
Vanguard Small Caps Value Fund
Brokerage account-100% stocks |
VG total Market 55% |
VG small cap value 20% |
VG Reit index 25% |
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TSP Account 75C/25S |
C Fund75%, S25%, |
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Bonds: U.S. Treasury 5 year Note, 1 year T Bill
Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
This relates to my last post on Thursday, 9/11, since "what is common" should mean nothing to us individually, and we should invest in the things that we understand.riptide wrote:Bogleheads,
I have both Vanguard Emerging Markets and Vanguard Reit fund in my portfolio. To make it less volatile, which one could I drop??
I hold 5% of each one within the total portfolio.
The core is
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index
Vanguard International Index fund
Vanguard Total Bond Index fund
Vanguard Small Caps Value Fund
Choosing 3 overweights (EM, REIT, SCV) come with *hoped* benefit for taking added risk - not just volatility (a proxy). That said, volatility is not static, and no one can tell you which will be less volatile in the future - but we all can make guesses. Add VEIEX to the chart and you see what happened last 10 years - NOT what will happen. The LARGER question is: why did you choose to overweight and what has changed?
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Private equity investments. I try to keep it under 1/3 of my investable assets however.
Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
I'd say my body is my riskiest "asset." Even if I take care of myself, I can get sick, have an accident, or be killed in any number of ways.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
Landy, Thanks for the reply. I not only mean less volatile , but less risky. I know nobody knows the future. I chose to overweight because I thought I liked more risk, and I expect more gain than the standard. No risk, not much reward were my thoughts. I have just become more peaceful with a bit more conservative set up than I use to favor. I don't think I want to continue overweighting three different funds, maybe 1, at most two...YDNAL wrote:This relates to my last post on Thursday, 9/11, since "what is common" should mean nothing to us individually, and we should invest in the things that we understand.riptide wrote:Bogleheads,
I have both Vanguard Emerging Markets and Vanguard Reit fund in my portfolio. To make it less volatile, which one could I drop??
I hold 5% of each one within the total portfolio.
The core is
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index
Vanguard International Index fund
Vanguard Total Bond Index fund
Vanguard Small Caps Value Fund
Choosing 3 overweights (EM, REIT, SCV) come with *hoped* benefit for taking added risk - not just volatility (a proxy). That said, volatility is not static, and no one can tell you which will be less volatile in the future - but we all can make guesses. Add VEIEX to the chart and you see what happened last 10 years - NOT what will happen. The LARGER question is: why did you choose to overweight and what has changed?
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VG total Market 55% |
VG small cap value 20% |
VG Reit index 25% |
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
+1cfs wrote:On this side of the keyboard.
I just took a look at the mirror and found the riskiest asset--on this side of the keyboard the riskiest asset is this writer.
Thanks for reading.
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Re: What's the riskiest Bogleheadish asset?
I think that we all evolve as savers/investors -- whether that means changing our approach, mildly modifying it, or something else.riptide wrote:Landy, Thanks for the reply. I not only mean less volatile , but less risky. I know nobody knows the future. I chose to overweight because I thought I liked more risk, and I expect more gain than the standard. No risk, not much reward were my thoughts. I have just become more peaceful with a bit more conservative set up than I use to favor. I don't think I want to continue overweighting three different funds, maybe 1, at most two...YDNAL wrote:...The LARGER question is: why did you choose to overweight and what has changed?
We invest under the simple premise that more risk = more [hoped-for] reward. That isn't always the case - remember all the *lost decade* articles in the media and even here at Bogleheads?
Personally, DW and I don't take a lot of risk with our retirement money... we have enough and allocate our savings accordingly. That doesn't mean that net worth is invested in a riskless manner, since a large portion is destined for other things besides retirement. My suggestion to you would be to invest based on ability & need for risk, and since this is individual in nature, decisions made would the ones best for YOU (only you).
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