May 30, 2016: Swensen Portfolio And Permanent Portfolios
by MyPlanIQ | May 31, 2016 | Asset-Allocation, Bonds, Economy, Feature, Gold, Headline, Income, Inv, Investments, IRA, Markets, Mutual-Funds, newsletter, Portfolios, Retirement |
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Swensen Portfolio And Permanent Portfolios
We pointed out several times before that David Swensen Individual Investor Portfolio is constructed based on a similar framework of permanent portfolios – the four pillars: growth, (anti-)inflation, (anti-)deflation and safe haven (see August 6, 2012: Four Pillar Foundation Based Portfolio Review):

Swensen, the manager of Yale University Endowment, outlined the one size fit all portfolio for individual investors in his book Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. The following table shows how his portfolio has compared with other lazy portfolios: