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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock and Bond Market-Timing: Can it be Done? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (129)	1/23/2009 12:52:13 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 3605

The junior Bob Brinker's fixed income portfolios lost "on average" 10.4% in 2008. His "aggressive" fixed income portfolio lost 21.7% This is amazingly bad results given the total bond index gained about 5.05% last year. GNMAs did even better. personal.vanguard.com

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (129)	1/24/2009 9:22:41 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3605

>>Looks like his consultant, Bob Brinker (the senior one), must have told him to use some of the same methods as Marketimer, which lost "on average" (including fixed income, active/passive and balanced portfolios) 31.8%. Some "market-timing." << for full context, the 32% loss is on a much larger portfolio than any of the earlier gains as he's surely been putting more money in over time. i think brinker has likely lost lots of money over the last decade. anybody can do that without buying a newsletter. ;-)