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Portfolio Investing With Ron Bertino

Portfolio Investing With Ron Bertino

Portfolio investing
Get steady and consistent returns with low drawdowns,
spending just 20 mins per month

Do you need steady returns with low drawdowns?
Sure. Doesn’t everybody?

The problem is that we’re led to believe that investing our own money is too risky and we should therefore use hedge funds in order to take care of our long term investments.

Financial concepts tend to sound quite complicated and involve either having to get deep into the weeds with complicated financial formulas, or resorting to having to become a programmer in order to code up even a simple investment strategy.

Could you outperform the average hedge fund?
That may sound like a crazy question to ask, but did you know that the average yearly returns of hedge funds are just 4.5% to 5% over the long term? They may be higher in more recent years, where the stock market has been increasing at an incredible rate, but once you include a few stock market crashes, then the yearly returns drop to an average of around 5%.

That’s a performance statistic which tracks 600 to 800 of the larger hedge funds, where each of these hedge funds need to have at least 100 million dollars of customer funds under management.

While you may be frustrated with that level of lackluster performance, the hedge funds are still perfectly happy to keep charging you their management fee, no matter how they perform.

Ray Dalio claims to have found the Holy Grail
While the average hedge fund performance has been lackluster, there are certain hedge funds that do perform very well. Ray Dalio runs one of the largest hedge funds in the world, called Bridgewater Associates, which as of 2018 manages over 125 billion in customer funds. Ray Dalio himself is a billionaire. So when a person like this makes a statement about having found the Holy Grail, then perhaps we should pay attention.

Here is a short 4 min video, where Ray Dalio explains the concept of the Holy Grail. Note that he’ll reference a bunch of terms that you may be unfamiliar with (standard deviation, correlation, alpha, information ratio, etc). Don’t worry, by the time you complete this course, you’ll know and fully understand all of these financial terms.

The main point he’s making is that the Holy Grail can be achieved by trading a variety of trading strategies or portfolios, where the return of each of these portfolios is unrelated to the others. When one strategy or portfolio is losing money, then hopefully the others aren’t losing money at the same time.

The keys are to:

a) have a variety of different portfolio strategies to choose from

b) be able to measure the degree of correlation between these strategies

You’ll be learning both of the above in this course.

How much pain can you take?
I remember back in 2008 and 2009, during the financial crisis, where I was working for a large IT consulting firm.

I had a bunch of money in a 401K retirement account, and the only way we could “manage” the funds was to choose from a variety of portfolios that they had put together.

At the time, I did what pretty much everyone does, which is to just pick a few of the funds that appeared to perform the best and had relatively small historical drawdowns.

Well, during the 2008/2009 period, my entire 401K retirement account was down by around 45%. Where was the diversification that they claimed to offer in order to protect the portfolio from this huge drawdown?

It was quite painful to watch, yet the fund managers of these accounts still ended up taking their management fee.

Would you prefer the red or blue line?
The red line represents the returns of the S&P 500, which is an index of the 500 largest companies in the USA. This is what most people tend to refer to when they talk about the “stock market”.

The blue line represents the returns of one of the dozen or so portfolio examples we’ll cover in the course.

Do you want wild and crazy (red line) or steady returns with low drawdowns (blue line)?

Now look at the difference between these two when it comes to the drawdowns experienced over the long term.

Notice how during the 2000-2002 time period, when we had the DotCom crash, the market (red line) was down 45% while this sample portfolio (blue line) barely felt any pain at all with a drawdown of around 5%.

During the financial crisis in 2008-2009, you can see that the stock market went down by 50%, yet this example portfolio was only down by just 14.5%.

Would you be willing to have your return go from 9.56% per year down to 8% per year, if it meant that you could cut your drawdowns from 50% down to 15%?

If your answer is yes, then that’s exactly the kind of thing you’ll be learning in the course.

You should also take note of the consistency of the returns of the blue line.

Look at the returns between the year 2000 and 2013. Notice how the red line went down, then up, then down and then up. That was a drawdown that lasted 13 years! Now compare that to the consistency of the blue line during the same period, or any other period during the backtest.

Last but not least, remember what Ray Dalio mentioned in the video above. Our objective is not to find the one “perfect” portfolio. Our objective is to find a variety of different portfolios, which are relatively uncorrelated (the returns and drawdowns of each portfolio tend to not happen at the same time), and trade them together.

In this course we’re going to cover a dozen or so ready-made portfolios that you could potentially start using immediately.

Our core-satellite portfolio is giving us a yearly compounded return of 11.91% versus the stock market at 8.78%, and we see a max drawdown of 13.63% with our portfolio versus the stock market having a max drawdown of 51%.

Here are the drawdowns:

 

The ideal setup for smooth and consistent returns
ATrading a diverse set of uncorrelated portfolios, as emphasized in Ray Dalio’s video, ensures smoother overall returns. The course offers insights into nine portfolios, surpassing the industry benchmark (60% stocks, 40% bonds) and outperforming hedge funds. During the 2008/2009 crash, the benchmark experienced a -32% drawdown, while the course portfolios showed resilience with -10% to -20% drawdowns. Investing equally in these portfolios yielded a steady equity curve, showcasing remarkable growth—turning $1 into over $4 by 2019 with a mere -12% max drawdown. Exceptional performance in 13 years!

Take a peek behind the curtain
…a LONG peak

In order to put that concern to rest, I’m going to make available one of the early modules from the course.

This is a video that explains many of the ways that you can be tricked by trying to interpret performance data.

This is not some little 4 minute video giving you a tiny sneak peak. This is one hour and 18 mins of content for you to review. It’s an entire module from the main course.

How data can trick you

So what’s stopping you?
If you’re interested in finance, but found it all a bit too complicated. And nobody is clearly explaining what these things are in simple terms that a normal human can understand.

This is a big reason as to why most people end up finding it all too difficult and then just give their money to mutual funds or hedge funds, and then resort to just crossing their fingers hoping that they haven’t made a terrible mistake.

It’s time to make a change
The main aim of this course is to explain all of those technical financial terms in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

In the course we’ll cover around a dozen or so pre-made portfolios that you can start off with. Additional portfolios and trading strategy ideas will be added over time, as our community continues to grow and share ideas.

Portfolio Investing With Ron Bertino

Course contents
Introduction

• Welcome to the course
• Strategic versus tactical asset allocation
• Introduction to bonds
• Asset classes
• Hedge funds
• How data can trick you

Returns

• Getting historical data
• Linear versus log scale
• Arithmetic and log price returns
• Cumulative arithmetic and log price returns
• Converting arithmetic and log returns
• Arithmetic and geometric mean
• Wealth index
• Performance charts

Measuring risk

• Variance and standard deviation
• The portfolio effect
• Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Calmar Ratio, Martin Ratio
• Alpha and Beta
• Correlation and R Squared
• Treynor Ratio and Information Ratio
• Value-At-Risk and Expected Shortfall

Factor models

• Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
• Fama French 3 factor model

Permanent portfolios

• Equal and Value Weighting portfolios
• Calculating portfolio returns
• Review of 5 different permanent portfolios

Moving average filters

• M.A.F. – single asset
• M.A.F. – all assets in a portfolio

Modern Portfolio Theory

• Introduction to MPT
• Correlation and the correlation matrix
• Efficient frontier
• Minimum variance portfolio and mean-variance efficient portfolios
• Rebalancing
• Return vs risk graph
• Capital Allocation Line, and margin effect on returns
• Kelly Criterion – optimal f
• Inverse variance portfolio
• Risk parity portfolio

Dual Momentum

• Review of 6 different dual momentum portfolios

Other portfolios

• Review of two Adaptive Allocation portfolios
• Review of two Core-Satellite portfolios

Spreadsheets and automation
We will jointly construct spreadsheets that reinforce the concepts presented in the course, using the free Google Sheets technology.

Stock analysis spreadsheet

We will:

• import historical data from multiple sources
• calculate arithmetic and log returns (standard and cumulative)
• create a performance graph in both linear and log scale
• calculate and graph drawdowns
• calculate various performance and risk stats such as: arithmetic and geometric mean, variance, standard deviation, downside deviation, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio,
• Value-At-Risk, Skew, Kurtosis
• create a pivot table and bar graph showing the historical monthly seasonal performance
• display return frequencies and map that to a normal distribution curve in order to be able to visualize skew and kurtosis

(Don’t worry if all of the above terms sound complicated to you right now. By the end of the course, you’re going to be crystal clear on what they mean and how they work)

Conversion spreadsheets

The first spreadsheet will take output from one of the online portfolio backtesting tools we will use, and then convert the output into a clean time series, which we can then analyze in more detail.

The second spreadsheet will do something very similar, but will take calendar style returns as the input and then convert it into a clean time series for further analysis.

Comparison spreadsheet

This spreadsheet will take the log returns of the clean time series data we have now created, and will show the results of two different portfolios side by side, together with stats comparing the two.

Google Apps Script automation code

One of the aims of this course is to present everything without getting into any programming code.

That said, I have created some Google Apps Script automation code which will greatly assist with some of the above steps, in terms of the conversion and comparison spreadsheets I’ve mentioned above.

I do not get into explaining any of the Google Apps Script code within the course, but I do make the source code fully available, for anyone who wishes to use it as a reference for their own spreadsheet automation work.

Are you an existing options butterfly trader?
For non-options butterfly traders, feel free to skip this section. If you trade options flies, you’ve likely noticed the right wing of the put fly neutralizes the credit from the left wing, leaving extra cash in your trading account. This surplus can be utilized to buy conservative ETF portfolios. Imagine making a 20% return from options trading. After the course, use your “unused cash” to invest in ETFs, potentially gaining an extra 6% to 10% yearly return with a conservative portfolio that historically had a minimal 10% drawdown over the past 50 years. This strategy significantly boosts your overall return.

Let’s do it!
In just a few hours you’ll be able to learn and understand many of the financial concepts which have been preventing you from confidently controlling your own investments. You’ll have access to a dozen or so pre-made portfolios which you can potentially start trading immediately. You’ll also be joining an existing private community of hundreds of traders who are already helping each other out and trying to grow together.

Portfolio Investing With Ron Bertino

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