Here are the current investment returns for the Bloodhound Model Strategies, and the SP500 index total return as of September 1, 2010. Details of how the Model Strategies are selected, and a comparison of their 2009 performance with the mutual fund industry can be found elsewhere in our blog. Of the 21 now available, 20 are one-year [...]
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When you take a long look at the alternatives, buy and hold equity investment provides a strong alternative, if you do it right. Buy and Hold has been misrepresented as “buy and sleep” strategy; but when you apply them over incremental periods of a year at a time they work extremely well. Let’s take a look! It has been conventional wisdom that index funds would both be cheaper for the individual investor, and provide better returns, ever since academic [...] Here are the current investment returns of the Bloodhound Model Strategies, and the SP500 index total return, as of August 4, 2010. Details of them, and a comparison to mutual fund performance in 2009, can be found elsewhere in our blog. July was an improvement over earlier months, and the SP500 is now positive again. Most of the Model Strategies are approaching a 10% gain for the year. When the market cycles as it has recently, with the pundits calling “woe” and predicting the end of Greece and everybody else with it, discussion always comes back to whether you should hold part of your investment in gold. Our view? Gold is a strategy for a very rainy day and those don’t come around very often. Otherwise the charts show that that the relationship between gold and stocks is very hard to predict and sometimes they even move together! We think the Bloodhound Model Funds provide a much better investment! |
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