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Risk Parity Radio is a podcast about investing. RPR explores risk-parity style portfolios comprised of uncorrelated or negatively correlated asset classes -- stocks, selected bonds, gold, managed futures, and other easily accessible fund options for the DIY investor. The goal is to construct portfolios that are robust and can be drawn down on in perpetuity, and to maximize projected Safe Withdrawal Rates regardless of projected overall returns.
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Episode 541: What Retail Financial Advisors Don't Want You To Know About Their Lineage And Fear-Based Methods; And Portfolio Reviews As Of September 18, 2026
In this episode we answer an email from Cameron. First, we consider the long history of consumer marketing and how the retail financial services industry fits into it, including reviewing developments in financial services business models over the past century. In that context, we then break down why the current most popular business models are fear-based, which leads to retirement planning firms pushing “paycheck replacement,” annuities and other inefficient solutions involving b...
- 4 days ago30 min
Episode 540: Teaching Up Them Teens, An Early Retirement Checkup, And A Managed Futures Paper
In this episode we answer emails from Jon, David, and Trevor. We discuss teaching teens personal finance without boring them and learning by doing, an early retirement checkup for a high-saving household confirming a $3.6M portfolio can support retirement plans, getting granular on expenses and planning for health care costs, asset location basics, and a useful managed futures white paper. Links: If You Can Book: Microsoft Word - If You Can.doc Set For Life: Set for Life:...
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Episode 539: Reviewing The Sample Portfolios And What Each One Is About, Performance Metrics, Risk Parity Chronicles, And Portfolio Reviews As Of September 11, 2026
In this episode we answer two emails from Stephen and one from Melanie. We walk through the eight sample portfolios and talk about what each one represents, discuss how different portfolios are appropriate for different goals and the relevant comparison between two withdrawal rates is the relative difference (e.g., 6.0% versus 4.3% is a 40% difference in annual spending, not a 1.7% difference), and talk about what the performance numbers on the website represent. We also remind th...
- 1 weeks ago41 min
Episode 538: Analyzing A Listener Portfolio, Helping Family Invest, Leverage, U.K. LCG And SCV Funds, And A Little Managed Futures
In this episode we answer emails from David, Olavo, and Nick. We discuss evaluating a sample portfolio and transitioning, helping parents and other relatives with their situations and milk-shake drinkers, being careful with leverage, large cap growth and small cap value funds for U.K. listeners and adding a 5% allocation of managed futures to a mix. Links: Afford Anything Risk Parity Portfolio Blueprint: Afford Anything frank-vasquez-risk-parity-portfolio-BluePrint.pdf - Google D...
- 2 weeks ago38 min
Episode 537: Bitcoin Gambling Problems, Resources For Understanding Managed Futures, Window Dressing Withdrawal Strategies, And Portfolio Reviews As Of September 4, 2026
In this episode we answer emails from Optimus Bill, Sin Nombre, Darren, and George. We discuss sizing small bitcoin ETF allocations, identify resources to learn more about managed futures, and talk about how underspending or hoarding strategies are often dressed up in various ways that often have surface appeal, but are ultimately unnecessarily restrictive and lack meaningful or useful purpose. Basic financial tools like selling shares are meant to be used, not avoided. And THEN ...
- 2 weeks ago33 min
Episode 536: Getting That Cash Invested, A Tribute To St. Dolly, And A Variable Withdrawal Strategy Calculator
In this episode we answer emails from Geraldo, Mark, and Zack. We revel again in their generosity, talk through reinvesting a big cash balance, setting up liquidity backstops with brokerage collateral, and using variable retirement withdrawal rules and a Portfolio Charts calculator to model the Bob Clyatt 95% rule with a Golden Ratio style portfolio. Links: Father McKenna Center Donation Page (please mention Risk Parity Radio in the comment section with your donation): Donate - ...
- 3 weeks ago40 min
Episode 535: Celebrating Your Generosity (From A BOAT!), Some US Treasury Wrath Of God Type Stuff, Accumulation Basics, And Portfolio Reviews As Of August 28, 2026
In this episode we answer emails from Pete, Mark, and Jack. We thank our generous donors and share the preliminary results of the Top of the T-Shirt campaign for the Father McKenna Center, discuss recent machinations of the US Treasury Department and why its more of the same old story, and discuss some basics of accumulation portfolios and the preeminence of the Macro-Allocation Principle, and using risk-parity style portfolios for intermediate accumulation. And THEN we our go through...
- Aug 19, 202640 min
Episode 534: An RPC Free Portfolio Organizer, Assorted Asset Questions, And How Risk-Parity Style Portfolios Alleviate Concerns About "High Market Valuations" By Design
In this episode we answer emails from Kelly and Jose (Joe). We discuss simple spreadsheet applications for organizing portfolios, review a planned risk-parity style portfolio, discuss issues with transitioning and international fund choices and proportions, and why you should not fear "high market valuations" because risk-parity portfolios already solve for that exact problem, unlike simplistic large-cap weighted portfolios. In fact, that is one of the main reasons risk-parity sty...
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Risk Parity Radio is a podcast about investing. RPR explores risk-parity style portfolios comprised of uncorrelated or negatively correlated asset classes -- stocks, selected bonds, gold, managed futures, and other easily accessible fund options for the DIY investor. The goal is to construct portfolios that are robust and can be drawn down on in perpetuity, and to maximize projected Safe Withdrawal Rates regardless of projected overall returns.
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