Seasonal Strategy’s quarterly newsletter

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Current issue:
WINTER 2025
- The economic idiocy ahead
- Trump and your portfolio

Archive of past 12 issues:
FALL 2024
- Warren Buffett — 94 and full of energy
- How catastrophe can make your portfolio safer
- Cat bonds: A paired-investment idea
SUMMER 2024
- AI mania reaches loony proportions. Just look at Nvidia.
- Retire Overseas: Cheaper, calmer, safer, healthier, more fun
- Five cities to start your retirement journey
SPRING 2024
- Record momentum leaves value investing in the dust
- The Roth Individual 401k: Handy, and now available at Schwab
- The new 529-to-Roth transfer opportunity
WINTER 2024
- RIP Charlie Munger
- 2024: Crowded trades and contrarian trades
FALL 2023
- “Higher for longer”: The right thing to do, but it will bring pain
- Niche assets: the next step in our portfolio diversification
- Lots going on: Schwab, paperless, Reno
SUMMER 2023
- Finally: A real return to safe, short-term investments
- Paperless quarterly reports are coming from Seasonal Strategy
- Seasonal Strategy is moving
SPRING 2023
- The biggest scam of all
- Schwab's financial position is strong
- Four years later, the Schwab/TD Ameritrade integration is finally upon us
WINTER 2023
- 2023: Look abroad, seek yield, continue to diversify
- For an unpredictable 2023, an alternative fund of alternatives
- Top financial regrets — and what we can learn from them
FALL 2022
- Don’t fight the Fed. It wants asset prices lower.
- Inflation looks scary. TIPS investors don’t think so.
- Social Security: Delying makes dollars — and sense
SUMMER 2022
- The Fed is behind the curve. Hopelesslely far behind.
- Private credit a safe haven and effective diversifier
- A view on the Fed‘s resolve
SPRING 2022
- An ocean of risk
- Berkshire and the lifeboat mentality
WINTER 2022
- 2022: Valuation is destiny
- Effective altruism: How to give
- Effective altruism: Where to give
The Conservative Strategist has been continuously published quarterly for 30 years. Select older issues are available upon request.