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Darwin Portfolio Review: 2 June 2023

June 4, 2023 By hedgehunter

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

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Copernicus Portfolio Review: 7 June 2023

June 7, 2023 By Lowell Herr

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

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Pay Attention to Fees: 8 June 2023

June 8, 2023 By Lowell Herr

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%. 

Filed Under: Passive vs. Active Tagged With: Fees, Passive Investing.

Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 2): 9 June 2023

June 10, 2023 By hedgehunter

US equities continued to confirm their bullish trend over the past week although they could not close above the 4300 mark: 4300 is the 61.8% Fibonnaci retracement level from the October 2022 lows to the prior January 2022 all-time high. It is also a significant area of

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Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 3): 16 June 2023

June 17, 2023 By hedgehunter

Another bullish week in US Equities with the SPX continuing it’s move within the uptrend channel and sitting at the upper 1 SD boundary – where we may see some resistance: This week’s performance in US equities placed pretty near the

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Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 4): 23 June 2023

June 25, 2023 By hedgehunter

It wasn’t a great week for US equities with the S&P 500 Index pulling back from the 1SD upper boundary of the uptrend channel: It still looks possible for US equities

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Copernicus Portfolio Update: 28 June 2023

June 28, 2023 By Lowell Herr

After updating a few lackluster portfolios, it is refreshing to review a strong yet simple portfolio.  Other than the Schrodinger where the owner does noting but save, the Copernicus comes in a close second for simplicity. Copernicus Investment Quiver and Holdings Below

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Analyzing Sector BPI Investing Model Sector By Sector: 29 June 2023

June 29, 2023 By Lowell Herr

As we near the end of the second quarter I thought readers might find it useful to see some data as to how well the different sectors performed when used in the Sector BPI Plus model.  What I did was use the Investment Account Manager (IAM) commercial portfolio

Filed Under: Sector BPI, ITA Portfolios

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