Here we are at the halfway point in January and it is time to update the top performing portfolio, Copernicus. Copernicus is an equity only portfolio where I set out to invest only in S&P 500 equities. With the market hovering at its high point diversification
Millikan Portfolio Review: 27 January 2026
The Millikan is one of several asset allocation driven portfolios set up to handle a mild recession. This portfolio is not as conservative as a few others managed here at Investment Trend Analysis (ITA). In the second screenshot
Schrodinger Portfolio Review: 29 January 2026
The question, “Who will manage the family portfolio when I die?” gave rise to research into Robo Advisor services. I looked into numerous services several years ago and actually invested money with several brokers to test their services. Performance and cost were the
Copernicus Portfolio Update: 12 February 2026
Copernicus, the all equity portfolio, is back for an update or review. I’ve backed off from investing only in VOO or the S&P 500. Ten of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 make up 39.1% of the entire index. Let one of the ten (10) sneeze
Bohr Portfolio Review: 18 February 2026
While the Bohr portfolio is an Asset Allocation style portfolio, the emphasis is more on generating income than focusing on growth. As a result the Bohr is not one of the better performing portfolio when compared to any of the six benchmarks I track here at ITA. Should we see a market correction or worse […]
Schrodinger Portfolio Update: 24 February 2026
We begin the last week of February with an update of the Schrodinger, the single Robo Advisor portfolio tracked here on the ITA blog. The Schrodinger has been operating for approximately 8.5 years. I use a start date of 12/31/2021 in order to compare the performance with much
Pauling Portfolio Review: 3 March 2026
Pauling is an asset allocation portfolio that is slowly working out of a performance deficit. Over the past few months I have been reworking the asset allocation mix and that work is not quite complete as readers will see in one of the following screenshots. Several asset classes are out
Gauss Portfolio Review: 5 March 2026
Gauss is the portfolio up for review today. The owner of this portfolio is not contributing significant amounts of cash each month so the re-balancing will need to come from dividends and interest income. Gauss is a very conservative portfolio as one can see from the low beta value of 0.27. Conservative is defined in […]
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