I've been working hard on making the tools better, in particular on the optimizer, to make sure it produces great results. Keep in mind that studies that use historical returns can only be relied on so much. And we should never be using historical results to tweak the portfolio, because it leads to overfitting. If… Read More »

In Forbes I found a post about some 'expert' model portfolios. I thought it would be interesting to try optimizing these portfolios using RIAengine smart portfolio optimizer, and seeing what backtests looked like. Here are the results. Buffet 90/10 Portfolio The first portfolio is simple, just 90% allocation to an S&P500 index fund (I chose… Read More »

Investment portfolio risk can be an uncomfortable topic. It’s easy to find articles all over the internet that encourage people to sit tight when things are dropping. Warren Buffet’s famous instructions regarding his wife’s trust are to put 90% of it in the S&P500. And since Warren Buffet says to do it, a lot of… Read More »