As one of the poorest performing portfolios, if not the least productive, it was encouraging to see Kepler turn in the top performance in August. It might be an outlier or the beginnings of a strong future using Closed-End-Funds (CEFs). The Kepler is certainly a portfolio … [Read More...]
Bullish Percent Indicators: 9 June 2023
Bullish Percent Indicator (BPI) data for the past week shows positive increases in nearly all the major indexes. As for the individual sectors, Utilities is still recommended as a Buy as the BPI continues to rest on the 30% bullish mark. Index … [Read more]
Pay Attention to Fees: 8 June 2023
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 … [Read more]
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, … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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