Replies to post #1159 on A.I.M. For Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

[Toofuzzy]

Hi Tom

My account has recovered nicely since 2008 or so but hasn't done much over the last few months.

The example is not what i own but what I would like to move towards.

Toofuzzy

[ls7550]

Hi Tom

For no particular reason other than its very quiet here, looking at a Taleb 15% speculative, 85% safe type asset allocation over a similar time period to that chart you posted, overlaid with another similar allocation that goes back a bit further in time (leveraged ETF history is limited so I had to use non leveraged versions)

Concept being around 7.5% in 2x Small Cap Value (UVT) and 7.5% in 2x Gold, with the remainder in bonds (TIP and 5 year Treasury). But etfreplay doesn't have data for UVT, so these snapshots are proxies (there's not much difference between these and the UVT/UGL versions).

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Best regards.

Clive.

[ls7550]

Long thread about the UBHS Tom that you might find to be of interest (I haven't read it myself, just found it and thought of you).

http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38374

Regards. Clive.