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Monday, April 13, 2009

Investment Strategies

Annual rebalancing adds few % over LONG periods of time over buy & forget approach for uncorrelated classes.

Buy & Hold:
Based on modern portfolio theory, based on risk profile of investor create a diversified buy and hold portfolio. Yearly rebalance.
Pros: Easy, diversified
Cons: In bad market can be really bad!
Several portfolios: Coffeehouse, IFA, Permanent portfolio......

Active management:
Be willing to go in full cash if needed. Use stop orders with any purchase.

Momentum strategy:
Buy last years hot hands & sell laggers, sell when momentum is lost.
Pros: works for some outperformance in good markets
cons: very volatile, trading costs could eat away

Sell options:
Sell covered call options, sell puts instead of buying

Buy protective options:
Always have insurance!

Small cap value:
USA, International, Emerging markets: Better returns but more volatility

Portfolio Rebalancing strategies:
* fixed time based
* look for overbought & undersold conditions & then rebalance

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