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Alex Strashny is a Ph.D. statistician who has developed an asset allocation investment algorithm. He applies this methodology to pick the asset mix that maximizes the expected return while not exceeding a fixed maximum risk.
My business:
Peaceful Gains
My blog:
peacefulgains.com/
  • [Peaceful Gains ETF] - Materials stocks and municipal bonds - June 1, 2009  0 comments
    Jun 1, 2009 01:45 AM | about stocks: AFB, VFL, NCL, XLB

    Peaceful Gains ETF
    Financial advisory newsletters with
    consistently high long-term returns
    June 1, 2009
    Update frequency: weekly

    Allocations
    Conservative

    • AFB (AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund): 75%
    • VFL (Delaware Investments National Municipal Income Fund): 20%
    • NCL (Nuveen Insured California Premium Income Municipal Fund 2): 3%
    • XLB (Materials Select Sector SPDR): 2%

    Balanced

    • XLB (Materials Select Sector SPDR): 62%
    • AFB (AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund): 38%

    Commentary: Materials stocks and municipal bonds
    Happy International Children's Day, World Environment Day, and Flag Day.

    We pick the mix of investments that maximizes the expected return while not exceeding a fixed maximum risk.

    Stocks have shown a lot of strength in recent weeks. Although broad-based stock index funds have lost over 30% in the past year, they've been in a steady uptrend since March. It is now safe to start putting some of our money into stocks. The materials sector has been especially strong, outperforming the broad-based indices. That's why we're putting some of our money into it. The rest of our money is going into municipal bonds, which are also doing very well.

     

    Disclosure: No positions.

    Stocks: AFB, VFL, NCL, XLB
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