Archive for August, 2011

What is your investment style?

My ETF Hedge Fund updates monthly two model portfolios: the conservative model portfolio and the aggressive model portfolio.

But what if your investment style you are comfortable with is in between?

Indeed, the conservative portfolio is always invested in fixed-income (including cash) for at least 50%. This may be too much for many investors over the long term. If so, you can use your portfolios to achieve your own mix. For example, an investor with moderate risk appetite ...

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Big correction or bear market?

Amid renewed market turmoil, the S&P500 experienced on August 18th its 4th day of 4-percent or higher loss since the beginning of the month. This pops the question: are we in a strong correction mode or have we entered a new cyclical bear market? One element of answer: the last time such a string of down days occurred was during the 2008/2009 bear market…

But the final answer remains anyone’s guess, and we have no magic ball to see into the ...

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Performance update as of August 4, 2011

So if you are among the lucky ones who did rebalance your portfolio according to our models, you must be very happy tonight. On August 4th, world equity markets experienced their worst day since… the depth of the great crisis in October 08! While mainstream media were focusing on the debt talks, traders were becoming increasingly concerned with the economy, hence the sharp move towards safe assets in late July. As underlined in our latest post, our model clearly caught ...

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