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To: octavian who wrote (42537)	2/2/2009 7:10:09 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Of course, the unfortunate part of this is that he apparently didn't outperform the index until he partially sidestepped a bear market in 2000 to 2003, and he has only outperformed by four percentage points since that time, based on the five year numbers on his Web site. Will he be able to sidestep another bear market at some time in the future? Nobody knows, but subscribers would probably have a very long wait to find out.

To: octavian who wrote (42537)	2/2/2009 10:10:40 PM
From: Midwest_Investor	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

I got the feeling that beating the SP500 index wasn't so difficult if one uses the "modern portfolio theory" and diversifies into many equity types. SV, SG, LG, LV, International, etc., etc., etc. And I know P1 is diversified, likely for this reason. It seems a better benchmark would be the IFA 100 portfolio or something like that. Note the IFA 100 is well diversified and rebalances fairly often.