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To: Rick who wrote (39990)	3/5/2001 5:28:15 AM
From: Mathemagician	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Despite its conservative bent, the model has produced long-term returns that are every bit as good as those of the market itself. An investor who used the model — switching between hypothetical shares of the Wilshire 5000 index and 90-day Treasury bills — would have made 16.1 percent, annualized, from the beginning of 1982 through January 2001. That compares to 16.0 percent for simply buying and holding the Wilshire 5000 stocks over this nearly 20-year period. That 0.1% is long, long gone after transaction costs and STCG taxes. M