Gone Fishin' Portfolio

Details

The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio was developed by Alexander Green and profiled in his book: The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio, Get Wise, Get Wealthy…Get On With Your Life.

Alexander Green is the investment Director of The Oxford Club, a long-running financial letter.

The portfolio has a 60% allocation to equities, 30% allocation to bonds, and 10% allocated to Gold and REITs.

Asset Allocation & Recommended ETFs

Weight
Ticker
ETF Name
Sector
15%
IWM
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
Equity, U.S., Small Cap
15%
VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF
Equity, U.S., Large Cap
10%
EEM
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Equity, Emerging Markets, Large Cap
10%
VGK
Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF
Equity, Europe, Large Cap
10%
VPL
Vanguard FTSE Pacific
Equity, Pacific, Large Cap
10%
TIP
iShares TIPS Bond ETF
Bond, U.S., All-Term
10%
AGG
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Bond, U.S., All-Term
10%
HYG
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Bond, U.S., Intermediate-Term
5%
VNQ
Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF
Real Estate, U.S.
5%
GLD
SPDR Gold Trust
Commodity, Gold

Performance Metrics

All Data
Annual Return
6.6%
Sharpe Ratio
0.44
10 Year Annual Return
5.4%
Volatility (annualized)
11.9%
Max Drawdown
-39.5%
Positive Periods
62.7%
Dot Com Annual Return
-5.3%
Great Financial Crisis Return
0.9%
Trade Frequency
Static
Ulcer Performance Index
0.6

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Gone Fishin' Portfolio Rolling Returns

Low
Average
High
1-Year
-34.2%
7.3%
47.9%
3-Year
-8.7%
7.1%
22.6%
5-Year
-0.5%
7.0%
17.8%
10-Year
3.3%
7.2%
11.0%

Charts

Portfolio vs. 60/40 vs. S&P 500

All Data
Portfolio
60/40
S&P 500
Annual Return
6.6%
9.3%
10.3%
10Y Annual Return
5.4%
7.9%
12.2%
Sharpe Ratio
0.44
0.51
0.43
Max Drawdown
-39.5%
-29.7%
-50.97%
Volatility (annualized)
11.9%
9.9%
15.4%
Dot Com Annual Return
-5.3%
-4.2%
-14.60%
Great Financial Crisis Annual Return
0.9%
-0.3%
-5.66%
Positive Periods
62.7%
65.8%
63.3%

**S&P 500 backtest to 1972 and 60/40 backtest to 1970

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