Episode 348: Portfolios For 11-Year Olds, Basic Return Stacking, And A Fama-French Kerfuffle 

In this episode we answer emails from Marco Esquandolas, Adrian and Paulo. We discuss portfolio advice for a precocious 11-year old, a simple return-stacked portfolio a la Corey Hoffstein and the priority of the Simplicity Principle, and some recent articles about the Fama-French database.
Links:
Corey Hoffstein Talking About His Return-Stacked Portfolio: Show Us Your Portfolio: Corey Hoffstein (youtube.com) ( • Show Us Your Portfolio... )
Paulo's Bloomberg Article: A Fight Over Factor Investing Tests a Pillar of Modern Finance - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...)
Summary Critique of Fama-French Database Issues: ftalphaville.ft.com/content/2e87e7f9-c2ad-4dcb-afc3-2a0f8d0a6ca3 (ftalphaville.ft.com/content/2...)
Fama-French Response Paper: Production of U.S. Rm-Rf, SMB, and HML in the Fama-French Data Library by Eugene F. Fama, Kenneth R. French :: SSRN
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