2. High Price earnings
Created a well diversified portfolio—
buy and hold
Fixed-income and equity instruments
International and domestic
Small, mid, large caps
ORIGINAL STRATEGY
3. 24.81%
34.45%
20.11%
20.63%
ORIGINAL HOLDINGS
BDCS
Domestic
ETFs
CZA
DTN
QCOM
StocksCBRL
MDSO
VCSH
Bond ETFs
SCPB
PID
International
ETFs
TOK
ETF replicates
performance of business
development companies
on NYSE and NASDAQ
ETF performs based on
100 mid capitalization
equities
ETF representing top 10 dividend
yielding companies in each sector,
of 300 largest companies by
market value, excluding financials
Technology – Communication
Equipment (Large Cap)Services – Restaurant (Mid Cap)
Technology – Healthcare
Information Services (Small Cap)
ETF tracks performance of
corporate bond indices with short
term maturity
ETF tracks performance of US
corporate bond market
ETF tracks performance of ADRs &
GDRs, which have shown regular
annual dividend yield increasesETF replicates MSCI Kokusai Index,
invested in developed international
economies excluding Japan
4. 8.51% (10/4 ~ 4/30)
Started with $40,000, ended with $43,404.40
S&P 500 produced 10.11% return
OVERALL PERFORMANCE
Liquidation;
$43,404.40
Strategy
change
Strategy
Implementation
$40,000
8.51%
5. Buy and hold strategy (10/4 ~ 3/27)
Our portfolio: 10.72%
Vs. S&P 500: 7.00%
BUY AND HOLD PERFORMANCE
10/4: $40,000
3/27: $43,404
7. Start of shift
liquidation
Liquidated our two bond funds
Using Valueline service picked:
ANR – Basic Materials
GPX – Services
BZH – Industrial Goods
PARTIAL STRATEGY SHIFT
Utilized leveraged index ETFs
UPRO (3x SP500)
UVXY (2x VIX)
8. “WHAT IF” ANALYSIS
Buy and hold strategy of the original 10 securities
Returned 12.18% from October 4th to April 30th
S&P500 returned 10.09%
Inception
Liquidation
9. CONCLUSION
We are content with our returns considering the change in the
market, though we should have stayed with the buy and hold
strategy
Return to expansionary economics
SP500 to outperform many funds
Trading platform
Our group expended $1,243.91 fee’s for 38 trades
Each transaction cost between $32 and $36 to complete
Expensive considering the lack of web features
Possibly lost return on wide spreads and inability to track equities
Recommend IB, E*Trade, TD Ameritrade
Forcasting at 10$ a trade we would have only expended 380 for the same
amount of trades
12. “WHAT IF?” ADIRONDACK FUND
30%
10%
10%
30%
20%
UHT –
Finance
TLLP – Basic
Materials
AWR – Public
Utilities
PBI –
Consumer
GoodsGK – Services
• Buy and Hold
• Chosen by High PEG and ROE
• Backed by analyst recommendations
• Overall return of 29.03% vs. S&P 500’s 10.66%