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Huygens Portfolio Review: 13 May 2025

May 14, 2025 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Huygens is one of two portfolios using an expanded Asset Allocation (AA) management model.  The other is the computer managed Schrodinger or Schwab’s Intelligent Portfolio.  Over the past month the Huygens lost a bit of ground to its benchmark, the AOR security.  Most likely the AOR

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

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 17 January 2025

January 20, 2025 By hedgehunter 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Rutherford Portfolio

Dirac Portfolio Review: 8 January 2025

January 10, 2025 By hedgehunter Leave a Comment

I opened the Dirac Portfolio in March 2024, as an “Income” portfolio, with the intent of populating it with CEFs using a mean reversion strategy based on 12-month Z-scores. However, with the markets being in a strong uptrend through 2024, no funds were

Filed Under: Dirac Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Dirac Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance

Rutherford Portfolio Review (Part 2 – Options): 6 January 2025

January 8, 2025 By hedgehunter 3 Comments

After making a mandatory ~$20,000 withdrawal from the Rutherford Portfolio, that I had been managing using a strict momentum model, I was left with ~$70,000 for future investment. Going forward into 2025, and beyond, I plan to split these funds into 3 portions. In Part 1 of

Filed Under: Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Rutherford Portfolio

Darwin Portfolio Review: 3 January 2025

January 6, 2025 By hedgehunter 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance

Franklin Sector BPI Portfolio Review: 5 April 2024

April 5, 2024 By Lowell Herr Leave a Comment

Franklin is the Sector BPI portfolio up for review today even though no sectors are in the oversold zone and we sold off all overbought sectors.  The current holdings of Staples and Utilities are residing in the neutral zone.  Over $2,200 remains in cash so we need

Filed Under: Franklin Portfolio, ITA Portfolios, Portfolio Management, Sector BPI Tagged With: Franklin Portfolio, Portfolio Construction, Sector BPI

Dirac Portfolio – A Look at a Mean Reversion Strategy

March 22, 2024 By hedgehunter 8 Comments

For investors, the choice of which system(s) to use to manage their portfolio(s) is one of the most important decisions in the portfolio construction/management process. For many years, the passive Buy-and Hold strategy, whereby we would select a diversified portfolio of assets and simply hold

Filed Under: Dirac Portfolio, Critical Material, Passive vs. Active, Portfolio Construction, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Dirac Portfolio, Mean Reversion, Portfolio Construction, Retirement Planning

Reworking Pauling Portfolio: 20 November 2023

November 20, 2023 By Lowell Herr

Based on discussions found in the Comment section of the most recent BPI blog post, below is an investment quiver that may be the future of the Sector BPI Plus portfolios.  What I’ve done is to add eleven sector ETFs where these new eleven are equal-weight

Filed Under: Pauling Portfolio, Portfolio Construction Tagged With: Pauling Portfolio, Portfolio Construction

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