There are changes to make this month in Dynamic Asset Allocation.
DAA is a core portfolio strategy that is designed to help SMI readers share in some of a bull market’s gains, while minimizing (or even preventing) losses
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The new recommendations for SMI's Dynamic Asset Allocation (DAA) strategy will follow later in a separate post. But first, I want to discuss the performance of DAA over the past month.
The market's volatility over the
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Sector Rotation is a high-risk/high volatility strategy. While its peaks and valleys have been higher and lower than all other SMI strategies, it has generated especially impressive long-term returns, as discussed in
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Our most aggressive core strategy, Stock Upgrading is a “momentum” strategy premised on the idea that recent past performance tends to persist. The strategy has you diversify your portfolio across five stock fund “risk
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The new SMI Bond Upgrading strategy debuted at the beginning of 2015. This approach involves investing half of the bond portfolio in two “core” funds which do not change. These two funds provide stability to the portfolio.
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The stock market has few set rules. There are, however, certain truisms that have withstood the test of time. One is that bad market periods are always followed, in time, by good market periods.
SMI was started in July
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An important but often overlooked benefit of SMI’s investing strategies is they provide clear-cut boundaries. These boundaries protect us from our worst enemies — ourselves — by giving “mechanical” guidelines for buying
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For 25 years, SMI has provided investors with easy-to-use strategies to manage their portfolios.
Just-the-Basics is our oldest and simplest approach, using index funds in an attempt to roughly duplicate the market’s
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One of an investor’s most important tasks is deciding how to allocate his or her capital among various types of investments. Studies have indicated that as much as 90% of a portfolio’s return is determined by the way you
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So far in this series on using the single most powerful tool for truly managing money (otherwise known as a budget!), we’ve looked at (1) planning and (2) tracking your use of money. But what happens when reality turns out
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