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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

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Franklin Sector BPI Update: 18 April 2023

April 18, 2023 By Lowell Herr

Franklin is one of four Sector BPI portfolios.  Perhaps I should title these portfolios, Sector BPI Plus as each now contains more than the eleven (11) sector ETFs in an effort to patch one of the potential holes in the Sector BPI hypothesis.  Past

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Asset Allocation and Market Factors

December 30, 2021 By Lowell Herr

Asset Allocation and Market Factors There are times when I get involved in an investment discussion on another investment site.  The debate frequently involves the very basics of portfolio construction.  Does one use individual stocks, mutual funds, or ETFs to populate portfolios?  This is a fundamental question.  Here at ITA

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Constructing a “Core” Investment Portfolio : Part 3 – Risk Parity and Volatility Targeting

June 2, 2021 By hedgehunter

In the first two parts of this series on portfolio construction I have focused on simplicity in terms of the number of assets that might be included in the portfolio and the level of management effort required to monitor and maintain the

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Constructing a “Core” Investment Portfolio : Part 2 – Buy And Hold with Periodic Adjustments

May 30, 2021 By hedgehunter

In Part 1 of this series of posts (https://itawealth.com/constructing-a-core-investment-portfolio-part-1-buy-and-hold/) I described how a new investor (or an investor wishing to change their current portfolio structure) might set up a simple Buy-And-Hold portfolio of ETFs that requires little or no management. 

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Reworking The Investment Quiver

September 25, 2020 By Lowell Herr

With the majority of ITA portfolios currently recommending no new purchases, now is a good time to rework the investment quiver if you are not completely satisfied with either the Factors or Asset Classes that make up your portfolio.  Think through what asset classes or factors you want to include

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Is There an Advantage in Splitting a Portfolio into Tranches? – Part 3: REDA Groups with Heikin-Ashi Filter

May 4, 2017 By Lowell Herr

In my last post in this series (https://itawealth.com/advantage-splitting-portfolio-tranches-part-2-reda-groups/) I looked at the performance of a “Rutherford” portfolio where we would equally allocate funds to assets that were classified in the top 3 groups of the REDA rankings. In this post I will again use the REDA group classifications

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Dividend Champions: A Tranche Momentum Analysis

March 23, 2017 By Lowell Herr

Not all ITA Wealth Management readers use ETFs to build their portfolios.  There are readers who have an interest in dividend oriented individual stocks.  The following analysis walks investors through a group of stocks I pulled off a Seeking Alpha article where the author

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

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