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Pauling II Asset Allocation Portfolio Launch: 1 April 2024

April 1, 2024 By Lowell Herr

“A major part of any investment plan is portfolio asset allocation.” – Richard A. Ferri Welcome to the Pauling II Asset Allocation portfolio.  Expanding on the Tentative Asset Allocation model, the Pauling II will use fifteen (15) asset classes, recognizing there will be some overlap between VTI, VOO, VO, VB, and QQQ.  Expanding from 10 […]

Filed Under: Asset Allocation, Critical Material, ITA Portfolios, Passive vs. Active, Pauling Portfolio, Portfolio Construction Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Pauling Portfolio

Pauling II Update: 1 April 2024

April 1, 2024 By Lowell Herr

This interim update is to clue readers in on a few changes I made in the investment quiver and where the portfolio is after one day of trading.  Numerous limit orders are still in place to purchase more shares for nearly all the asset classes. One not so obvious change is the weighting given to […]

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

Huygens Asset Allocation Portfolio Review: 10 April 2024

April 10, 2024 By Lowell Herr

Welcome to the revised version of the Huygens Asset Allocation portfolio.  There is a possibility the management of this portfolio will be taken over by its owner.  To make the portfolio easier to manage I’ve set up an Asset Allocation model, quite similar to the Pauling II (soon to go back to the original name, […]

Filed Under: Huygens Portfolio, Asset Allocation, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Asset Allocation, Huygens Portfolio

Two-Year Summary of Sector BPI Portfolio Performance: 26 April 2024

April 27, 2024 By Lowell Herr

Nearly two years ago I launched the first (Carson) of several Sector BPI portfolios.  Eleven ITA portfolios are currently using this investing model.  Not all are publicly reported here on the ITA blog.  How are these eleven portfolios performing using this particular investing model?  The following data table shows how the different sectors performed over […]

Filed Under: Sector BPI, Benchmarks, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Sector BPI

Kahneman-Tversky Portfolio Review: 7 June, 2024

June 9, 2024 By hedgehunter

The Kahneman-Tversky (K-T) Portfolio is a simple Dual Momentum Portfolio that is split between two lookback period options over which “momentum”, or Relative Strength, is measured. The Kahneman portion of the portfolio uses a single long-term lookback period of 252 trading days (12 months) and reacts slowly to changes in “momentum”. The Tversky portion uses […]

Filed Under: Kahneman-Tversky Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management Tagged With: Kahneman-Tversky Portfolio, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance

Bullish Percent Indicators: 21 June 2024

June 22, 2024 By Lowell Herr

What happened to U.S. Equities this past week?  Lifetime and Platinum members will see that little action took place other than a slight decay in performance for small- and mid-cap stocks.  The first table lays out the broad picture while the second table separates the market into sectors and it is this information we use […]

Filed Under: Bullish Percent Indicators, Critical Material, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Technical Indicators Tagged With: Bullish Percent Indicators, Sector BPI

Copernicus Equity Only Portfolio Update: 1 July 2024

July 1, 2024 By Lowell Herr

Copernicus is a U.S. Equity only portfolio.  In other words, the only investments are U.S. Equity ETFs.  As such the Copernicus is nearly guaranteed to outperform the S&P 500 if two conditions are met. 1) The market is higher when the performance calculation is conducted.  2) The portfolio does not carry too much cash. How […]

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

Millikan Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 3 July 2024

July 3, 2024 By Lowell Herr

One of the better performing Sector BPI portfolios is the Millikan even though it has only been using the model for 19 months.  We are beginning to build a historical data base we can use to move forward with the model.  Some of this evidence is provided in the following analysis. The latest check of […]

Filed Under: Millikan Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Sector BPI Tagged With: Millikan Portfolio, Sector BPI

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