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Alpha Strategy |
Buying and selling individual stocks can be exciting and sometimes quite rewarding. Unfortunately, your odds of being successful over the long run are about as good as hitting your lucky number on one roll of the roulette wheel. |
Following The Top 2.5% . . . |
Numerous studies have shown that even professional stock pickers, or those who actively manage mutual funds, are unable to outperform their benchmarks over the long term. One such study suggests that only about 2.5% of active managers are able to do so. So why not follow this 2.5%!!! For aggressive investors, we have developed our Alpha Strategies which attempts to do exactly this, own the stocks these select few successful managers own. To accomplish this we research and track the quarterly government filings of some of the top institutional and hedge fund managers such as Buffett, Soros, Paulson and many others you have probably never heard of. In our Alpha Top 5 Strategy, we analyze the portfolio holdings of several top managers to find the five most popular stocks owned among them. Each quarter we buy and sell based upon these results. |
In our Alpha Buffet Strategy, we buy the top 10 holdings of Berkshire Hathaway and reevaluate the portfolio quarterly. Implementing such a strategy since 2000 significantly outperformed the S&P 500. |
Own What Buffett Owns? |
Growth of $10,000: 1/03/2000 - 04/20/2010 (Index = S&P 500) |
Calendar Year Returns |
Annualized Statistics |
Source: John Bogle "Bogle On Equity Selection" |
Source Data: AlphaClone. Disclaimer: Hypothetical performance results may have limitations described below. They are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight, do not involve financial risk or reflect actual trading by any account under actual market conditions and therefore do not reflect the impact that economic and market factors may have had on the advisor's investment decisions for that account. No representation is made that IEA's performance would have been the same as such simulated had IEA been in existence during such a time. Another limitation is that the investment decisions reflected in the simulated results cannot completely account for the impact of financial risk on the manner in which an account would have been managed, for example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses are material points which can also affect actual trading risks. In fact, there are often sharp differences between hypothetical results and actual record subsequently achieved. The simulated results do not take into account enhancements that may be made to the proprietary computer models over time. There are numerous other factors related to the market in general, or the the implementation of any specific trading program which cannot be fully accounted for in preparation of hypothetical simulated performance results and all of which can adversely effect actual trading results. All results are gross of trading fees, management fees and taxes. |
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