Four Quarters
A quarter each in shares, long treasuries, gold and short-dated municipal bonds — one for each thing an economy can do to you. Harry Browne's idea, and the simplest allocation anybody has defended for fifty years.
4 holdings · from Index funds, fixed weights
How it would have done
$10,000.00 put in on Jan 16, 2014 and held at these weights, rebalanced quarterly.
Measured on total returns — closes restated for dividends and coupons — because a bond fund pays most of its return out as cash, and on price alone the same holding reads as a loss. Quarterly rebalancing, which is not what a live portfolio here does: those rebalance when a holding drifts past its band, so a real one will not track this exactly. Past returns are what these weights did through the years on file, not a forecast, and the chart starts where every fund in it had a price.
Start one
Opens a paper portfolio of your own that tracks this. The next run buys the holdings, and every run after keeps them level — so a company that drops out of the ranking drops out of your portfolio.
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What it holds
Recomputed on every run, so this is what it holds today rather than what it held when it was written.
- US sharesVTI25.0%
- Long treasuriesTLT25.0%
- GoldGLD25.0%
- Standing in for cashMUB25.0%
25.0% in the largest position. Nothing here is a recommendation, no order is placed for you, and the prices behind the weights are the last stored closes.