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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host

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To: BFree who wrote (41977)	1/7/2009 10:17:09 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (1) of 42834

Brinker includes the one year numbers in the January issue of Marketimer. However, it seems obvious that he doesn't want those numbers setting there on his website, so now the shortest time-frame reported there is 5-years. It makes sense if one is so eager to sell newsletters that the ends justify the means. After all, who in their right mind would subscribe to a newsletter named "Marketimer," if they go to his website and read that Portfolio I lost 39.7%; Portfolio II lost 37.4%; and the Active/passive lost 37.8% in 2008? Portfolio III (50% bonds) lost 23.9%. [The Total Stock Market Fund and S&P 500 Index Fund lost 37%.] Blogger jeffchristie said... "I actually view the performance of Portfolio III as his biggest miss. Portfolio III lost 23.8%. Remember this is supposed to be a balanced portfolio of 50% stocks and 50% fixed income. If you kept 50% in a money market paying just 2% and the other 50% in the Total Stock Market Fund (VTSMX) you should have seen a loss of 16.5%. I think the main reason Portfolio III did much worse is that Brinker did not rebalance it at the beginning of 2008. He was overweighed in equities." .

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