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The Ultimate Buy and Hold Portfolio 2023 Update

2023/3/29
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Each year Paul (with the many hours of dedicated work from Director of Analytics Daryl Bahls ) updates and  reviews the latest returns and important lessons from the Ultimate Buy and Hold Portfolio.In this review he references a series of tables including:Table A1-Ultimate Buy & Hold Equity Portfolio (50% US/50% Int’l))Table A2 - Alternative Equity Portfolio Tables (50% US/50% Int’l))Table A101 - Ultimate Buy & Hold Equity Portfolio (70% US/30% Int’l))Table A102 - Alternative Equity Portfolio Tables (70% US/30% Int’l))Table B14A - Fine Tuning Table S&P 500 vs.  US SCV Portfolio)For those listening to this podcast it will likely be useful to review the tables before hearing Paul’s comments.Topics include:

  • Why these tables are important to do it yourself investors.

  • The random returns of the S&P 500.

  • The huge impact of small changes in returns.

  • The unexpected low risk of adding risky asset classes.

  • The impact of rebalancing annually vs. monthly.

  • How several low risk 2 fund portfolios outperform  the 10 fund Ultimate Buy & Hold Portfolio.

  • How likely the future will be like the past.

The 2023 Ultimate Buy and Hold video will be coming out later today on YouTube, you can find it here- https://paulmerriman.com/youtube