First, a look at the performance of US Equities over the past week shows that the initial weakness seen at the Open on Monday quickly turned around to see US Equities finish the week ~ 3% higher than last week’s close: After dropping out
Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review – 10 January 2025
I will start this post with my usual weekly look at US Equity markets through the eyes of the S&P 500 Index (SPX): where we see that, after starting the week strongly on Monday, the markets deteriorated badly going into the end of the
Darwin Portfolio Review: 3 January 2025
I do not post a review of the Darwin Portfolio very often because I rarely adjust it and it behaves, for the most part, like a Buy-And-Hold Portfolio. The Portfolio holds a handful of ETFs covering different market segments to provide diversification and reduce overall portfolio volatility. Asset
Darwin Portfolio Review: 17 May, 2024
The Darwin Portfolio is an “All-Weather” Portfolio built from 5 ETFs representing diversification in 5 major asset classes. The portfolio also hold a ~10% allocation to “volatility” as an asset class providing even more diversification. Allocations in the 5 major asset classes are
Darwin Portfolio Review: 12 April, 2024
The Darwin Portfolio is an “All-Weather” portfolio of five ETFs representing the major asset classes of US Equities (VTI), International Equities (VSS), US Real Estate (VNQ), US Treasuries (TLT) and Gold (GLD). For additional diversity a 10% allocation is ascribed to an
Darwin Portfolio Review: 1 March, 2024
The Darwin Portfolio differs from other portfolios that I review on this site since it is a more “classical” diversified portfolio that does not rely on momentum measurements but stays invested in the same assets at all times (see lower screenshot below). The only adjustments necessary are to
Darwin Portfolio Review: 29 December 2023
At the end of 2023 the Darwin Portfolio is showing a profit of 17% (16.4% annualized IRR) since inception in November 2022. This is not as good as the return on the S&P 500 Index (up 18.5% over the same period) but beats
Darwin Portfolio Review: 1 December 2023
The Darwin Portfolio is a portfolio that I try not to adjust too often and it has been 3 months since I last posted a review of this portfolio so it’s time to take a look at how it has been performing in that
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