Risk Parity Radio
Risk Parity Radio is a podcast about investing located at www.riskparityradio.com. 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.
Episodes
455 episodes
Episode 453: Managed Futures, Bengen's New Book, And Vanguard Personal Advisor Follies
In this episode we answer emails from Adam, Private Cowboy, and Jose. We discuss managed futures (again with references!), Bill Bengen's latest book and how it integrates into our approach, and the pros and cons of a Vanguard Personal Adv...
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Season 6
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Episode 453
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55:53
Episode 452: Thanks Again For Your Generosity, Avoiding Calculator Jockeys, Calculation Shortcuts And Portfolio Reviews As Of September 5, 2025
in this episode we answer emails from Chris, Trudie, and Earl. Highlights: The Father McKenna Center "Top of the T-shirt" campaign raised over $66,624 thanks to generous listener contributions; financial advisors are conflicted and ...
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Season 6
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Episode 452
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36:18
Episode 451: Market Musings And Entertaining A Ted Baxter Clone
In this episode we answer emails from Andy, Phil and Brady. We entertain Andy's musings on small cap value and the economy with crystal balls and complex adaptive systems theory, discuss the foibles of radio personalities attempting to tr...
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Season 6
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Episode 451
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39:53
Episode 450: International Funds, Nomads, New Vanguard ETFs and Portfolio Reviews As Of August 29, 2025
In this episode we answer emails from a Mysterious Visitor, Pal and Byron. We review our approach to international stock funds and how to improve their diversification, try to help out a Canadian nomad and discuss some new Vanguard funds....
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30:18
Episode 449: A Transition, Personal Finance Is Still Finance, And Fun With Mary And Coaching Stuff
In this episode we answer emails from Nick, No Name, and Nathan. We discuss transitioning at 70% to FI, the inherent problems with a lot of psychology-based and convenience-based finance media and personal finance that fails to do the fin...
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Season 6
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Episode 449
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37:02
Episode 448: The Problem With Simulated Crystal Balls, Cleveland Rocks, And Portfolio Reviews As Of August 22, 2025
In this episode we answer emails from Dave, Mike, and Andy. We discuss an inherited IRA, 529s, how historical data provides more reliable investment guidance than simulated data based on crystal balls, particularly when considering econom...
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Season 6
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42:35
Episode 447: The OG Cowbell, Some Dueling Blog Posts, Spending And Enjoying More With Bill Bengen, And Musings About Gold 'N Bitcoin
In this episode we answer emails from Evan, James and Brandy. We discuss the joys of more cowbell from first principles and its origin story, a recent back-and-forth between Karsten and Tyler, the inherent problems with trying to massage ...
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Season 6
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Episode 447
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29:24
Episode 446: Managed Futures, International Bond Funds, Risk Parity Chronicles(!) And Portfolio Reviews As Of August 15, 2025
In this episode we answer emails from Postmaster, John, and Patrick. We discuss the ins and outs of managed futures, the outs of international bonds and currency funds, and Risk Parity Chronicles. Reborn!And THEN we our go t...
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Season 6
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Episode 446
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36:47
Episode 445: "Funny How" With Listener Humor, Rebalancing Leveraged Funds, And CTA
In this episode we answer two emails from John and one from Pete. We revel in John's summary of the podcast from its humble beginnings to its current form, his sailboat analogy to portfolio construction and his highly humorous questions.&...
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Season 6
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Episode 445
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32:56
Episode 444: Weird 401ks, Portfolio Visualizer Experiences And Leveraged Funds
In this episode we answer emails from Ian, Bruce and Boone. We discuss dealing with a 401k with limited options, the limitations of the ticker symbol analyzers of Portfolio Visualizer and incorporating individual stocks into a retirement ...
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Season 6
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Episode 444
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28:50
Episode 443: Treasuring Our Guests And Listeners In The Arena, Bond Allocations, Transitions And Portfolio Reviews As Of August 1, 2025
In this episode we break rules and have guests! Dennis and Ben from the Father McKenna Center. We review the fabulous results of the Top of the T-Shirt Campaign and reflect on the generosity engagement of our listeners. Then...
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Season 6
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Episode 443
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49:17
Episode 442: Viva Our Listener's Lives, Treasury Bond Funds, And Volunteering
In this episode we answer emails from Thirsty Horse, Graham, Chris, Oberon, Ronald and Mark. We discuss their personal progress with finances and better relationships, books about that and thriving, treasury bond funds, choosing volunteer...
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Season 6
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Episode 442
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42:00
Episode 441: Three Milestones, Starfish, A Requested Rant And Portfolio Reviews As Of July 25, 2025
In this episode we celebrate some milestones and answer emails from Amy and John. We discuss the 10-year anniversary of Portfolio Charts, our one millionth download and Mary's good news about her CASA work. Then we talk about the pa...
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Season 6
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Episode 441
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51:43
Episode 440: Looking At Some Charts, Inheritance Headaches, Bonds And Gold, And Celebrating Ozzy
In this episode we celebrate Ozzy Osbourne and answer emails from Iron Tony, Ben and Robbin. We discuss some of the charts at Portfolio Charts and some related research, the unexpected problems of complex trusts and the value of simplifyi...
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Season 6
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Episode 440
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44:12
Episode 439: Our Annual Rebalancing Episode And A Baby With A Gambling Problem
In this shocking, season-ending episode we answer an email from another generous and Nameless listener regarding a levered portfolio for Nameless, Jr., their omnipotent baby in waiting. We also have fun with Fibonacci numbers.
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Season 5
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Episode 439
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46:29
Episode 438: Should We Market Time Gold, What About TIPS, And What About The Children?
In this episode we answer emails from Brian, Gary and Rob. We discuss the foibles of follies of attempting to market-time gold, the fundamental problems of trying to use TIPS as inflation "hedges" in a diversified portfolio and the limite...
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Season 5
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Episode 438
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34:13
Episode 437: Wallowing In Your Generosity, Listener Portfolios, And Longer Retirements
In this episode we answer emails from Ron, Michael, Jaime and Clare. We discuss all the generosity bestowed on us and our charity, including the McKenna Man portfolio, a listener's personal portfolio and two-year experience, portfolio lon...
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Season 5
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Episode 437
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33:43
Episode 436: Your Fear of Running Out of Money May Be Something Else And Portfolio Reviews As Of July 4, 2025
In this episode we explore one big long answer to an email from Bob about why people refuse to spend money in retirement despite having more than adequate resources. We touch on the math and psychology of the Possibility Effect and how to...
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Season 5
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Episode 436
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1:02:50
Episode 435: Catching Up To Risk Parity And Fun With Forex And A Vanguard Market Neutral Fund
In this episode we answer emails from Tracy, Mike and "Some Call Me" Tim. We discuss the speculations and gambles of Forex, portfolio transitions, the Vanguard Market Neutral Fund and moving overseas. And we have a mystery guest rea...
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Season 5
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Episode 435
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27:47
Episode 434: Party Time With Retirement Clubs, Portfolio Visualizer And Portfolio Reviews As Of June 27, 2025
In this episode we answer a question from Ness. We have fun with The Untouchables, retirement clubs, Portfolio Visualizer and many other things. And THEN we our go through our weekly portfolio reviews of the eight sample por...
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Season 5
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Episode 434
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56:26
Episode 433: More About Transitions, Leveraged ETFs And Other Gambling Problems And Wisdom From The Great Jim Rohn
In this episode we answer questions from Mason, Brian, and Anonymous. We discuss portfolio transitions from a highly overlapped portfolio and related consideration, treasury strips funds and leveraged ETFs (twice), and the power of advice...
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Season 5
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Episode 433
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42:16
Episode 432: A Transition Quandary, The 25 x 4 Portfolio, RPR On Afford Anything Podcast, Other Stuff And Portfolio Reviews As Of June 20, 2025
In this episode we answer emails from Isaiah, Jack, Jon and Luke. We discuss preliminary transition issues and de-risking, Jack's "25 x 4" risk parity style portfolio, Invictus and similar themes, treasury bonds and gold as co-diversifier...
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Season 5
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Episode 432
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48:43
Episode 431: Websites And Roundtables And A Couple New Funds And Gold vs. Bonds
In this episode we answer emails from Luc, Craig, Luke and Lucky. We discuss updating the website, my recent roundtable on the Stacking Benjamins podcast, Achilles heels, and the inherent problems with not using proper forecasting techniq...
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Season 5
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Episode 431
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35:29
Episode 430: Celebrating Your Generosity, Accumulation Management, A Transition Question And Portfolio Reviews As Of June 6, 2025
In this episode we answer emails from I Have No Name, Deep and Joel. We discuss the extraordinary generosity of our listeners and how it uplifts the workers in the FMC trenches, rebalancing in accumulation, tax considerations for an inter...
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38:45
Episode 429: Endless Listener Generosity, Portfolio Considerations In Retirement, A Direct Indexing Experiment And Butchering Tools
In this episode we answer emails from Brent, Peter and Cy. We discuss our Father McKenna Center Top-of-the-T-Shirt Matching Campaign (again), Peter's risk-parity style portfolio in retirement and what to do with new cash coming in, and Cy...
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