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Today Global X announced the launch of a Permanent Portfolio Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), ticker PERM. Based on the incredible success of the Permanent Portfolio mutual fund (PRPFX), I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Not only has PRPFX returned nearly 10% per year over the last decade, it has also gathered a whopping $16.8 billion in assets. The original Permanent Portfolio was developed by the late Harry Browne. In his seminal work on the matter, Fail Safe Investing, Harry laid-out a stra... Continue reading ...
No surprise here...for the 35th time in the last 38 years, the Permanent Portfolio (PP) finished the year with a gain. The PP returned investors 7.1% in 2011, which was about half of last year's 13.8% return. The PP easily outperformed the S&P 500's 2.1% return (including dividends). The returns for each asset category in 2011 were: - Stocks +2.1%
- Long-term bonds +17.2%
- Gold +8.9%
- Cash +.05%
If you're unfamiliar with the Permanent Portfolio, it's an investment strategy created by the late Harr... Continue reading ...
The Permanent Portfolio (PP), an investment strategy created by Harry Browne in the 1980s, is flexing its muscles so far in 2011. This strategy allocates funds in equal amounts to stocks, gold, bonds and cash. The downside to this strategy is that it will underperform stocks in years where stocks do well, such as the last two years. However, it will give you steady growth without having to endure the massive volatility we've seen in stocks this week. In fact, since 1973, the PP has only go... Continue reading ...
Yesterday, the investment blog Random Roger had a link to one of his reader's blogs, who goes by the name "T". T's blog discussed changing the allocation of the Permanent Portfolio, because " Investment products better reflecting the world are available to capture
long trends while defending against your best intentioned stock
selections going haywire." T believes he knows which investments are most suited for the future and built an ETF Portfolio to reflect his views. It consists of the ... Continue reading ...
Today, March 1, saw broad stock market indexes get hammered. The S&P 500 was down 1.55%, the Dow dropped 1.38% and the NASDAQ fell 1.61%. Meanwhile, the Permanent Portfolio - which is our preferred investment strategy, rose .17%. The Permanent Portfolio hold equal parts stocks, gold, bonds and cash. While the stock portion of the portfolio took a hit, gold and silver more than made up for it by rising 1.5% and 2.1% respectively. The Permanent Portfolio is built to produce consistent gain... Continue reading ...
The numbers are in and the Permanent Portfolio was a big winner in 2010, returning 13.8% on the year. That's not much of a surprise, the Permanent Portfolio has had a positive return in 34 of the last 37 years! If you're unfamiliar with the Permanent Portfolio it's an investment strategy created by the late Harry Browne in the 1990s. The portfolio is simple, it holds gold, bonds, cash and stocks in equal amounts. Why does something this simple work so well? Two reasons: 1)No matter the ... Continue reading ...
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