Alternatives deserve more attention
Yusko thinks investors should put more into alternative strategies. A small allocation simply cannot have a big enough impact.
This is a lesson that target date fund (TDF) managers should consider, suggested Ryan Alfred, co-founder and president of BrightScope, in response to my tweet. As he explained,
Going back to Yusko, he also suggested that your clients should have at least one-third of their assets in illiquid investments because such investments "win" after recessions. He's assuming that your clients have plenty of money that they plan to pass on to others in their wills. Yusko didn't specify which illiquid assets he was talking about.
Provocative
Yusko isn't fond of mainstream media. "Cancel your subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. It's all wrong, it's all biased." He used the example of the war between Russia and Georgia to make his case, mentioning that Morgan Creek pays someone to read Russian newspapers for them.
Yusko also spoke in favor of high fees. He seemed to suggest that fees rise along with the investment manager's ability to deliver performance.
Humorous Yusko
In closing, here is some Yusko humor.
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Going through my notes, I found more Yusko opinions on fees.
ReplyDelete"If you pay low fees, you have your money managed by the worst people."
"The idea that you want to minimize costs makes no sense."
People say they know that indexing beats hedge funds, but for a 20-year period, S&P 500 returned 6.5% vs. 13.2% for hedge funds.