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The New Millenium Portfolio
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Emcee:  John Pitera Type:  Unmoderated
The New Millenium Portfolio

A year 2000 project from the John, Mike and Tom of the Wild World of Stocks thread.

Subject 31996

The situation is this. A client comes and has the following profile.

He/She has 5 million dollars that they want to have in the Stock and Bond Market
( a theoretical figure that Mike suggested)

They want to be roughly 60% in equities and 40% in fixed income. It does not pay to talk them out of this asset allocation mix, as they will not entertain thoughts of a secular bear market. The utility that we can provide will come from within this framework. We may move the equity portion up or down 5 or 10% during the year, much as the street firms have their asset allocation models.

Of the 60% equities, 23% will be pretty much full invested and stay that way through thick and thin.
We may consider stop-losses on some of the stocks in here once a year if we see a severe market downturn
Coming.

The stocks will be the one decision buy and hold stocks like QCOM, JDSU, CSCO, SDLI, WCOM, PMCS,
CNXT, CRA, RNWK, BRCM, RFMD, PCS, VSTR GBLX, QWST, CTXS, ITWO etc We can really entertain many stocks for this. I guess we may dollar cost average into these over 4 months, and then basically hold them. We will have to decide that the fundamental story has changed and that management has lost it and the company and business model is broken to sell these,

22% will be more actively traded, where we buy stocks on breakouts and are looking to hold for a few weeks to a few months, and will use more mechanical stop losses, We can use some of the methodology of one of the great traders in the market Wizards book by Jack Schwager. David Ryan is the Market Wizard
I am referring to. (I will provide more details on his methodology as we get our feet wet -g-)

7.5% of the portfolio will go into yield stocks such as reits and stocks like CDC which has a nice dividend and I believe are undervalued.

7.5% of the portfolio will go into value stocks, deeply out of favor stocks that have bombed out such as S, IT when it was at 10. HRC is an excellent current example one stock I would want to initially place in this area.

35 % will go into fixed income bonds, notes, corporate bonds etc. The maturities will be dependent on our view of what rates will be doing in the coming 3 to 6 months.

the 7.25% in Reits, I believe is currently offering a risk-adjusted return that will surpass bonds.
I am viewing the Reits as a surrogate to bonds currently and so with the 7.5% in Reits our fixed
Income will be more like 42.5%. Time will tell if this is a reasonable strategy and if it can outperform.
Just have the 7.5% in notes and bonds.

the final 3% will be reserved for hedging, where we can once or twice a quarter is we see a serious market decline coming we can use up to a third of the funds to buy some protect with option strategies.

This will by no means be an options trading account and will be used sparingly.

I plan on putting a fair amount of effort into this, as I am preparing concepts for clients that by no means are identical, but this is kind of a synthesis of the specific needs of many folks.

This should be an exciting project, I am hoping we will all learn quite a bit and become more
Proficient in fashioning these types of strategic frameworks. My hope is to enhance our confidence in having a proactive Approach in Asset allocation modeling and portfolio development and maintenance.

John
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540Hi John, Believe it or not, I am looking very seriously at gold. I am seeing a Jorj X Mckie-9/25/2000
539Time for me to put some money in a few Japanese stocks.... I have been ouJohn Pitera-8/1/2000
538Nirmal, i'm not a pro like John P...-g- but we're hanging out mostly owlheatmoon-7/24/2000
537What brought me back to this Thread ?? This is a winner "StockTalk subject&Nirmal17/24/2000
536Japanese stocks... NIPNY,NTDOY, NTDMY, SNE AIMIC's Picks ...JUNE 19, 2000 John Pitera-7/8/2000
535 NEWSMAKER-Rock'n'roller takes charge at John Hancock By Bill Rigby WedJohn Pitera-5/31/2000
534 Mike, really fantastic detailed INFO on SDLI, thanks so much for Posting this. John Pitera-4/13/2000
533 SDLI info. Message 13412579 ETEK CC....thanks to Pat....she's fabulous witwlheatmoon-4/13/2000
532 You are one knowledgeable Market Operator Mike !! -g- nervous like that old PrJohn Pitera-4/11/2000
531 <i>VPHM today....yikes....a downgrade,,,and it gets cut in 60%?</i>Original Mad Dog-4/11/2000
530 <<<<Ultimately, though, if it is a push, if we can be down or up 15wlheatmoon-4/11/2000
529 <i>VPHM today....yikes....a downgrade,,,and it gets cut in 60%? who'dJohn Pitera-4/11/2000
528 hi, John.... i think we need to crash,,,consolidate,,,then recover. retestingwlheatmoon-4/11/2000
527 Are we in the process of retesting the low, or accelerating the decline? It isJohn Pitera-4/11/2000
526 not that anyone cares at the moment... Monday April 10, 3:25 pm Eastern Time wlheatmoon-4/11/2000
525 revenue stream and nice partnership are the primary attraction for this companywlheatmoon-3/31/2000
524 Re: TiVO, I agree with John, the device itself offers no real barrier to entryTerrapin-3/31/2000
523 I tend to doubt it as the barrier to entry may not be as wide. But it's aJohn Pitera-3/30/2000
522 i don't want to sound crazy,,,but TIVO could be a mini AOL? wlheatmoon-3/30/2000
521 That was a very timely call by GZ!!John Pitera-3/30/2000
520 Mike, that is a very nice post on TIVO. It's a pretty neat technology. TiJohn Pitera-3/30/2000
519 Mike, thanks for the VTSS update. As you will recall they are one of the chip John Pitera-3/29/2000
518Message 13299359wlheatmoon-3/28/2000
517 TIVO....a very nice post... Message 13298057 we've talked about TIVO beforwlheatmoon-3/28/2000
516 WAVX---interesting company with great potential? biz.yahoo.com biz.yahoo.cowlheatmoon-3/28/2000
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