While I’ve written about management fees in prior blogs, it is useful to think about them again as fees can easily leave an “endowment” on the doorstep of an active manager. A few readers will remember load funds where the cost to gain access to a fund cost 8.5%. While those days are long gone, […]
Schrodinger Computer Manage Portfolio Update: 7 June 2023
Normally I don’t review a portfolio this quickly since the last update, but the owner of the Schrodinger added new money so the portfolio could be tax managed. According to Schwab’s website an Intelligent Portfolio, of which the Schrodinger is an example, must reach a level of $50,000 before it is “tax managed.” The Schrodinger […]
Copernicus Portfolio Review: 7 June 2023
Portfolios fall into two major categories, actively managed or passively managed. The Copernicus portfolio is of the latter variety as the plan is to invest only in U.S. Equities. Only add or purchase Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs) and only sell in an emergency. Over the past 17 months the Copernicus has been the top performing […]
Kahneman-Tversky Portfolio Review: 2 June, 2023
The Kahneman-Tversky Portfolio is a simple Dual Momentum (DM) portfolio with a fast/slow (short look-back/long look-beack) twist. We’ll look first at the performance to date: where we see that we are a little behind our AOR benchmark. So, we’ll look first at the slow moving (Kahneman) portion of the portfolio and the rotation graphs: I […]
Darwin Portfolio Review: 2 June 2023
The Darwin Portfolio is an “All-Weather” portfolio with a dash of volatility. Performance to date (since lowering volatility target levels last November) looks like this: The large “jumps” correspond to periodic allocation adjustments to risk parity – but maybe the stacked chart is easier to follow: at least it is a little easier to see […]
Hawking Portfolio Review: 2 June 2023
The Hawking Portfolio continues to outperform the AOR benchmark Fund over the long term despite giving back a lot of it’s lead from the February highs: We are still trying to recover from the ~25% Draw-Down experienced in 2022. Current holdings look like this (apologies for the lack of Descriptive names – but Yahoo is […]
Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 1): 2 June 2023
As I have mentioned in recent reviews of the Rutherford Portfolio I have to take money out of this retirement account so, following last week’s review of Tranche 5, I have “retired” Tranche 5 and adjusted the other 4 tranches to $19,000 each – or a total portfolio value of $76,000. I will continue to […]
Bullish Percent Indicators: 2 June 2023
Friday’s strong market turned out to be a positive injection for the U.S. Equities market. International ETFs benefited as well. This reaction to the debt limit solution is reflected in the first screenshot below. What is somewhat surprising is that approximately 50% of the stocks in the indexes are still bearish. In other words, the […]
Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 1 June 2023
The Schrodinger is an excellent portfolio to lead off June as it is a “no decision” portfolio designed for investors who have no interest in the workings of the stock market. Managed by computers at Schwab, the Schrodinger is known as a Robo Advisor account. Schwab calls these accounts Intelligent Portfolios. This portfolio was initially […]
Bethe Portfolio Review: 30 May 2023
Before getting into the review of the Bethe portfolio the photo above reminds me of when Memorial Day was referred to as Decoration Day. This was a day to decorate graves, particularly of fallen war soldiers. Small towns celebrated the day with a parade that included the high school band, decorated bicycles, tractors, fire engines, […]
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