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Galileo Portfolio Review: 1 July 2021

July 1, 2021 By Lowell Herr

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Galileo is the first portfolio to be reviewed in the second half of 2021.  The Galileo is one of several Dual Momentum™ portfolios and thus far this investing model has been one of the most successful.  In addition to doing quite well, DM portfolios are easy to manage.  Second to the Robo Advisor account (Schrodinger) and the Bohr Asset Allocation portfolio, Dual Momentum portfolios are by far the easiest to oversee.

Should the Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Jensen Performance Index, and Jensen Slope continue to hold up well for DM portfolios, I’m seriously considering shifting a few of the BHS-HA-LRPC managed portfolios over to this simpler investing model.  I’m not recommending this change just yet as I need more data before making such a move.

Galileo Dual Momentum Recommendation

The recommendation is to sell 27 shares of VTI and purchase 55 shares of VEU.  These orders will be set later this morning.  The red arrow on the left indicates the look-back combination I’m using with the Galileo.

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Galileo Performance Data Since Inception

Since inception means starting at 4/30/2017 as that is when I first began recording Investment Account Manager (IAM) data for the Galileo.  The portfolio is actually older.  As you can see below, the Galileo is outperforming all the benchmarks going back over four years.  This data comes from the Investment Account Manager software, a commercial portfolio tracking program.

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Performance Data Since 7/31/2019

July 31, 2019 is the “common launch” date as that is when the youngest ITA portfolio was launched.  By using this as the starting date I am able to normalize all the data for the different portfolios.

Once more, the Galileo holds a substantial lead over all the benchmarks.  Now we need to examine how the Galileo is performing based on the risk of the portfolio.

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Galileo Risk Ratios

Looking back over a year of data it is rather remarkable to see all positive numbers.  This is rather rare.

Interest rates are low and the IRR value is high with respect to the benchmark.  That is why Jensen’s Alpha or Performance Index is so high.  This kind of performance tends to attract one to the Dual Momentum model.

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Comments

  1. Tucker McDonagh says

    July 1, 2021 at 1:32 PM

    Hi Lowell,
    I understand Galileo uses 60 and 100 day look backs, and the max number of positions is 1, so every 60 and 100 days you review perf and reset the position to the one of five that has the best performance over that period, is this right?

    Also, what do the…
    5, 50%, 30%, and 10% under the ‘Periods between offsets’ mean in the spreadsheet?

    And, how is Galileo different than Pauling?

    Thanks

    • Lowell Herr says

      July 1, 2021 at 3:01 PM

      Tucker,

      Yes, the Galileo uses the 60- and 100-trading days combination as the look-back period. A 50% weight is allocated to the 60-day period while 30% is assigned to the 100-trading days period. The remaining 20% is allocated to volatility where low volatile securities are highly valued.

      Five (5) is the number of days used to determine ranking trends. If you look for Rank Trend you will see the 5 day intervals. We check the momentum trends every five day period. Green shows positive trends while Red illustrates poor trends.

      The portfolio is reviewed every 33 days and at that time I check to see which of the four ETFs is recommended for purchase.

      The Pauling uses the same settings as the Galileo. The performance difference is primarily due to timing luck of when the Galileo was reviewed during the Covid-19 Crash. Hope this helps.

      Lowell

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