Seasonal Strategy’s quarterly newsletter

Seasonal Strategy’s quarterly newsletter

The Conservative Strategist

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Current issue:

WINTER 2025

  • The economic idiocy ahead
  • Trump and your portfolio
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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.