Build Tim Maurer’s Simple Money Portfolio With ETFs
Learn how to build Tim Maurer's portfolios with ETFs. How does it compare against other portfolios like Swedroe's?
What is Tim Maurer Simple Money portfolio?
Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio is exposed to 60% stocks and 40% bonds. It can be built with 7 ETFs. It has a slight value and small-cap tilt. The portfolio is a medium-risk portfolio.
For the past 10 years, the Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio has returned 8.15 with a standard deviation of 10.53. The dividend yield is 2.12%. The 30-year return is 8.09%. Year to date the Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio has returned -8.02%. Last year it returned 9.04%.
Article Contents
- What is the historical return of Tim Maurer’s Simple Portfolio?
- How does Tim Maurer’s Simple Money portfolio compare to the best portfolios?
- How do you build Tim Maurer’s Simple Money portfolio with ETFs?
- Make sure you select the right ETFs!
- Who is Tim Maurer?
- Description of the Tim Maurer Simple Money portfolio
- Resources for the Tim Maurer Simple Money portfolio
- Suggestions for your next steps
What is the historical return of Tim Maurer’s Simple Portfolio?
Here is the historical return for Tim Maurer’s Simple Money portfolio.
| Name | Asset class count | Year to date | Return in 2020 | 10 year return | CAGR since 1989 (%) | Risk level | Expense ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Maurer Simple Money Portfolio | 7 | -8.83 | 7.03 | 7.54 | 7.91 | 2 | 0.12% |
How does Tim Maurer’s Simple Money portfolio compare to the best portfolios?
Below you can see the returns of the best portfolios that we have benchmarked.
| Name | See Portfolio | Year to date | Return in 2020 | 10 year return | CAGR since 1989 (%) | Draw Down |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Portfolio |  | -12.97 | 18.29 | 16.52 | 11.28 | -37.63% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -12.98 | 18.11 | 11.03 | 11.21 | -44.87% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -13.6 | 19.7 | 14.99 | 10.85 | -32.77% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -8.98 | 3.19 | 11.85 | 10.99 | -36.46% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -9.17 | 3.66 | 11.87 | 10.88 | -36.35% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -14.04 | 21.03 | 16.29 | 11.25 | -37.00% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -9.45 | 8.7 | 14.47 | 11.14 | -35.26% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -11.1 | 7.48 | 11.45 | 10.93 | -37.91% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -9.97 | 5.36 | 13.2 | 11.81 | -35.43% |
| Premium Portfolio | | -8.76 | 3.42 | 13.15 | 10.99 | -40.85% |
How do you build Tim Maurer’s Simple Money portfolio with ETFs?
Here is how you build Tim Maurer’s Simple Money portfolio with ETFs.
- 7.50% US Large Cap Value (VTV)
- 7.50% US Large Cap (VV)
- 7.50% US Small Cap Value (VIOV)
- 7.50% US Small Cap (VIOO)
- 15.00% International Large Cap Value (EFV)
- 15.00% International Small Cap Blend (VSS)
- 40.00% Intermediate-Term Treasuries (VGIT)
Make sure you select the right ETFs!
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If you are a European investor you need to buy European ETFs (they need to be of the UCITS kind!).
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Who is Tim Maurer?
I love writing about good guys in investing and personal finance. I consider Tim Maurer as a good guy in investing.
Tim Maurer is a Wealth Advisor and Director of Personal Finance for Buckingham and the BAM ALLIANCE. He is also a regular contributor to CNBC, Forbes, and TIME/Money.
If you think BAM ALLIANCE and Buckingham sound familiar, it is because you know them from other prominent financial writers. Here are a few that we have featured on Portfolio Einstein:
- Larry Swedroe is the research director at Buckingham. We feature him in our article Larry Swedroe Portfolio: Nemesis of Low Returns. He is a fantastic educational writer. We have learned a ton from his many books. An example is his gem of a book on factor-based investing (smart-beta), Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today.
- Dan Solin was a director at Buckingham. He is the author of the Smartest series of investing books, including The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read: The Proven Way to Beat the “Pros” and Take Control of Your Financial Future.
Tim Maurer has also written a fantastic book on personal finance. The book features the Simple Money Portfolio.
What is it with these guys at Buckingham? Do they all write good books?
It reminds me of Ritholtz Wealth Management, where all the employees have a side gig as book authors, have a blog, or, in other ways, engages with the investing community. I can’t imagine that being anything else than a very conscious strategy and recruitment metric by Barry Ritholtz. He is one smart cookie.
The reason why I highlight the extracurricular activities of these advisors is that I consider them as being above the rest. The reason why they write books, blogs, and engage with the investing community is that they can’t help themselves. They are passionate about personal finance and investing. That shows in their books and their blogs.
Just look at Tim Maurer’s blog. It is professional but at the same time very personal.
Guys like Tim Maurer, Larry Swedroe, Dan Solin, and the Ritzholz crew, Barry Ritholtz, Josh Brown, Michael Batnick, and Ben Carlson, are writing books and blogging because they care. They write because something compels them to do so.
Description of the Tim Maurer Simple Money portfolio
The Tim Maurer portfolio is called the Simple Money Portfolio and comes from his website and his book Simple Money: A No-Nonsense Guide to Personal Finance.
The Tim Maurer Simple Money portfolio is a variation on the standard 60/40 portfolio.
The portfolio tilts toward value and small-cap stocks. The portfolio is a theme that is also seen in Larry Swedroe’s many portfolios.
It is also a theme we see in Dan Solin’s Super Simple portfolios.
We see the investing kinship with Tim Maurer’s colleagues at Buckingham Wealth Management.
Resources for the Tim Maurer Simple Money portfolio
Here you can Tim Maurer’s blog. He updates it every week with new thoughtful posts on personal finance and investing.
Here is Tim Maurer’s on BAM‘s website.
Below is a video by Tim Maurer, where he recommends the ten best personal finance books.
The list features some fantastic books. I know because I have read nine of them! Tim Maurer also gives a twenty-second quick and concise summary of each book.
Suggestions for your next steps
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Rebalancing lowers your portfolio risk and can increase your returns.
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