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Questions To Ask Your Money Manager

July 11, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

  Recently I was talking with a neighbor and I mentioned that I have been writing an investment blog for over 17 years.  The neighbor mentioned he has a money manager handle his investments.  When I have one of these conversations my mind begins to come up with questions I would ask a money manager […]

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Pauling Portfolio Review: 11 July 2025

July 11, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Pauling is one of several portfolios that lag their benchmark.  When this is the case I go to the Risk Ratios to see the direction of the growth or regression.  In which direction is the portfolio moving with respect to the broad equities market?  This is not an easy time for money management as we […]

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Dirac Portfolio Review: 3 July 2025

July 6, 2025 By hedgehunter 1 Comment

Over the past 18 months I have not had the time to decide how to manage the money that has been sitting in the Dirac Portfolio. This was to be a re-build portfolio project based on using an “Income” model, similar to the Hawking Portfolio, but designed to adopt a mean reversion rather than momentum […]

Filed Under: Dirac Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Relative Strength, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Dirac Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Relative Strength, Risk Management, Technical Indicators

Copernicus Portfolio Review: 3 July 2025

July 5, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

When the Copernicus portfolio was first launched back in early 2022 it was young investors I had in mind.  Simplicity was a primary factor since I assumed someone following the Copernicus model would have little time to pay attention to any investing model other than to purchase an ETF now and again when cash became […]

Filed Under: Copernicus Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Copernicus Portfolio, Passive Investing.

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 3 July 2025

July 4, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

In another short week for trading, US Equities (SPX) continued their climb to new highs and closed the week ~2.2% higher than last week’s close:

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators

Millikan Portfolio Review: 1 July 2025

July 1, 2025 By Lowell Herr 1 Comment

While the Millikan portfolio is dated July 1, the information is primarily June data.  The Millikan portfolio is narrowly focused on four Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).  As readers will see in a moment, I am deviating from the basic asset allocation recommendations as we have yet to see the impact of proposed tariffs and the […]

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Bethe Portfolio Review: 30 June 2025

June 30, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Few changes took place within the Bethe portfolio since the last review.  A few more shares of SHV were added as I am taking a conservative approach with this portfolio.  I will most likely continue along these capital preservation lines until after the 2026 elections so patience is required.

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Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 27 June, 2025

June 29, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

US Equities pushed higher this week, despite geopolitical uncertainties, and closed the week ~ 3.5% higher than last week’s close after testing the important 6100 level in the SPX (S&P 500 Index) and breaking out to new all-time highs:

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Risk Management, Rutherford Portfolio, Technical Indicators

Gauss Portfolio Review: 27 June 2025

June 27, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Gauss is one of the mini-asset allocation portfolios or one where very few ETFs are used to populate the portfolio.  Since the last review all shares of SCHG were sold and the cash was converted to shares of SHV, a short-term treasury.  While U.S. Equities rebounded from the April depression point, the fundamentals that this […]

Filed Under: Gauss Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Gauss Portfolio

Kepler Portfolio Review: 24 June 2025

June 24, 2025 By Lowell Herr 2 Comments

Kepler is undergoing security changes as it has been under-performing for a long time.  The portfolio could wait until after the second quarter dividends are available, but I want to use this review as a reference to see how the different closed-end-funds (CEFs) perform before and after second quarter dividends.

Filed Under: Kepler Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Kepler Portfolio

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