February 25, 2019: ‘Bad’ Tactical Strategy
by MyPlanIQ | Feb 26, 2019 | Asset-Allocation, Bonds, Economy, Feature, Gold, Headline, Income, Inv, Investments, IRA, Markets, Mutual-Funds, newsletter, Portfolios, Retirement
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‘Bad’ Tactical Strategy
It goes without saying that our Tactical Asset Allocation(TAA) portfolios have been hit hard recently. Some screamed that ‘whipsaws killing us’. Many are wondering whether this strategy can recover. In this newsletter, we want to closely look at this in a historical context and discuss some of the questions.
The ‘bad’ performance
Though it’s been known for a while that recently, our tactical portfolios have underperformed broad based markets (i.e. strategic or buy and hold like S&P 500 index funds), the underperformance since last October is particularly concerning:
Recent tactical portfolio performance (as of 2/22/2019):
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