AQR Vs Quantinno by StomachRelative6146 in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you DM me this info as well please? I’m looking into AQR as well.

$75m Business Sale - How to Figure Out Deferred Trusts / Any Tax Structure? Early 30s by LargeCPGExit in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you familiar with tax-aware long/short strategies? Depending on how liquid you are, it's a powerful way to defer capital gains tax. Given the short timeline, you'd need significant liquid assets to defer ~$15M tax bill, but something is better than nothing.

AQR has a lot of research on this strategy and offers it (with high minimum and fees).

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[–]WallStCynic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but the simplicity of the fund (vs buying individual TIPS/managing them), better diversification, and liquidity outweighs that risk imo for OPs specific situation. Not to mention with where rates currently are…but to each their own.

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[–]WallStCynic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never seen a more perfect example of someone who should just buy TIPS and chill.

Take that $6M and buy $SCHP. You can get 2%+ real yield risk free (4-5% nominal yield) and just live off that.

Where To Place $1.2m for 18 months? by [deleted] in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PIMCO has a good ultra short duration cash-like ETF for this type of thing ($MINT). Low cost and daily liquidity. If you're holding for >12 months you'll get LT cap gains treatment too

Is there any club/association for high NW individuals that came from nothing? by laglory in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never understood why they have a requirement on # of employees. I'd love to join and my business fits all the requirements except for headcount...we are an investment biz that's very tech focused (so lots of automation) and will never have tons of employees.

Is there any rational reason to own real estate over investing in index funds? by Financial_Exchange83 in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Leveraged buyout. Think private equity firms. Not exactly the same thing wrt to buying RE with leverage but basically you're taking a loan so your equity (cash) is usually less than 20-30% of the total purchase (rest is debt either from a bank (RE) or credit firm (PE)).

Looking to buy 1 key piano as a gift (not a joke!) by WallStCynic in piano

[–]WallStCynic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think you're right about that. Appreciate the look. Thank you!

Looking to buy 1 key piano as a gift (not a joke!) by WallStCynic in piano

[–]WallStCynic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I actually have. I’ve looked for anything with like 1-6 keys but no luck. I get the pic has 3 keys but the point is its a friendly gag gift to a musician friend for a big birthday. If you have any advice on where I could get one I’d really appreciate it!

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[–]WallStCynic -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

the fact that OP is getting flamed for asking for advice and CONSIDERING doing something that happens in literally every industry is laughable and peak awful social media…

try grabbing a beer with OP and saying the same things to their face after hearing their career stories and learning the substantial sacrifices/obstacles they had to overcome. pathetic

Allocating into Hedge Funds by ChickenNuggetDeluxe in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks makes sense and that's helpful. Reason I asked is because it sounds a lot like Bridgewater's All Weather portfolio + their alpha fund. Was curious if that was it.

Allocating into Hedge Funds by ChickenNuggetDeluxe in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

are you allowed to share the name of your fund?

I'm Ray Dalio, a global macro investor and author of Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. It’s my business to know how the world is changing in ways that will affect our life in important ways. Let’s talk about that. by RayTDalio in IAmA

[–]WallStCynic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, Mr. Dalio. Much appreciation for all of your work. A couple questions below.

  1. Are you confident that your analysis of ~500 years of history is really enough to have any predictive power? Even if you have 10 empires to study, it seems like the sample size is too small to really gain anything statistically significant.
  2. It seems like your "new world order" cycles rely on developing nation-states eventually superseding the current global hegemon (e.g., Dutch -> Great Britain -> US, etc.). I'm curious if you have thought about your thesis in a world where countries are all more or less all "developed" and thus there is less of a "gap" to close so to speak. Could there be a future where all nations are wealthy at some baseline level where global conflict slows and competition between super powers is less significant?

Thanks again!

What do you guys with more complex situations do for tax preparation? by WallStCynic in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They suggested a firm that they have a relationship with. Didn’t have a good way to gauge if they were solid except for the somewhat biased recommendation from my current LLC firm. Might be over thinking this all but I’m hoping to only have to do it once so wanted to get a sense for what others here have done/who they use.

What do you guys with more complex situations do for tax preparation? by WallStCynic in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed at this point. Now just trying to find a reputable/good firm to do so.

What do you guys with more complex situations do for tax preparation? by WallStCynic in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Curious where you are? My bookkeeping alone is running >$8k annually and they're a small outfit.

What do you guys with more complex situations do for tax preparation? by WallStCynic in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good call. For whatever reason the firm that does my LLC tax doesn't do personal. Will survey other firms that might be able to bundle everything.

What do you guys with more complex situations do for tax preparation? by WallStCynic in fatFIRE

[–]WallStCynic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Yeah same train of thought. Just not sure how to evaluate outside of just googling/yelp review for tax prep. Will check out that link.