20 Mar An Aggressive ETF Portfolio for Growth
An Aggressive ETF Portfolio for Growth
Mar. 20, 2024
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This week we’re discussing the growth part of our three-pronged plan.
And in our last Newsletter, we looked at an ETF portfolio meant to beat the market and preserve our portfolio.
But stability was the main focus, not growth. It was a maybe a portfolio for a mature person in his/her 50s.
Today we’re getting aggressive.
This portfolio is for big growth, big drawdowns be darned. This might be appropriate for someone in their 20s or someone who loves risk and bigger returns.
Of course, the idea of what grows might be different than what actually grows. Let’s take a look
First, I looked around and found several ETFs that fit our aggressive profile (on paper). Here’s that portfolio:
We have tech (VGT), growth (VUG), large-cap growth (MGK), more growth (SCHG), more large-cap growth because that’s what AAPL/MSFT/NVDA are (IVV), international exposure (VXUS), and Bitcoin (FBTC).
The problem is that all the Bitcoin ETFs have just come out, so we can’t really run any data with those yet. So I’ll eliminate Bitcoin and run the rest.
Here are the results since 2014:
Our aggressive growth basket did, in fact, beat the market. And, as expected, the drawdown was much bigger than if we just used an index fund by itself.
But wait a second. What were the returns from last Newsletter’s “conservative” portfolio again?
I thought so.
Our “preserve our money” portfolio beat the aggressive portfolio over the same period–and had much lower drawdown.
Hmm. Maybe the thought of what grows isn’t what actually grows.
Of course, Bitcoin has recently gone through the roof. Any strategy that has Bitcoin exposure and includes 2024 will do better.
But any portfolio that included Bitcoin through the fall of 2023 would have done worse.
So keep that in mind.
In our next Newsletter, we’ll look at some brand new, crazy, exciting ETFs.
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