This weekend's Wall Street Journal reports the results of two
hypothetical portfolios which are clearly intended to be nonsensical.
Not exact matches
Researchers tested a blizzard of potential «drawdown strategies» — that is,
hypothetical rates of spending in retirement, mapped against investment returns on people's savings — to analyze
which had the best chance to keep up with inflation and sustain a
portfolio through a long retirement.
To better understand this concept, look at the pie charts below,
which depict
hypothetical portfolios with different asset allocations.
The blank white spaces indicate years in
which our
hypothetical investor ran out of money because the
portfolio returns were insufficient to keep up with constantly rising withdrawals.
The results are absolutely stunning: the
hypothetical portfolio of these so - called «net - net» stocks, many of
which had no earnings at all, produced a shocking 35.2 % annual return for the period from 1984 - 2008.
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The chart illustrates sub-factor performance of value and momentum factor - based
hypothetical portfolios using the developed markets ex-US universe as defined by Hartford Funds,
which includes the top 2,000 stocks of the large - cap universe as ranked by free - float market cap.
Factor - based
hypothetical portfolios were constructed using the Developed Markets (ex-US) universe as defi ned by Hartford Funds,
which currently covers approximately 1,500 companies across 22 countries.
I began a
hypothetical ETF
portfolio which combine the above 2 strategies and track it publicly on Scott's Investments.
The top stocks are then added to
hypothetical portfolio,
which is up 7.13 % in its first 11 months.
Indices are unmanaged,
hypothetical vehicles that serve as market indicators and do not account for the deduction of management fees or transaction costs generally associated with investable products,
which otherwise have the effect of reducing the performance of an actual investment
portfolio.