Today, Porter shares how pretty much anyone can earn 50%-plus annual returns, on average – and without suffering the kind of drawdowns most investors believe are inevitable. In fact, the strategy he demonstrates has volatility that’s much lower than the market’s.
The excerpt below from one of Porter’s classics is about one of the fundamentals of investing at the centerpiece of what we focus on at Porter & Co. Through market cycles, overhyped fads, and speculative trends, his approach to building long-term wealth has remained startlingly consistent.
In P&C insurance, our average return has been 66% over the last three years, with an average holding period of about 18 months. That’s more than double the S&P 500’s returns over matching periods. And we had no losing positions.
This year, says Porter, has been a great opportunity to establish your own “Hershey Retirement Fund,” and I hope you’ve taken advantage of it.
Porter explains today that Bitcoin’s price and its intrinsic value are understandable (and predictable) using standard economic metrics. And even if you’ve never understood the first thing about the internet or Bitcoin, you can easily understand (and predict) its price.
Private credit growing too big too fast is coinciding with the product becoming increasingly available to ordinary investors through exchange traded funds (“ETF”). The story is instructive to both debt and equity investors.
This company is the Michael Jordan of insurance: no one can beat it. Its results are so impressive that the expectations on this business are immense. And we’ve noticed that virtually every time it reports earnings – no matter how good those earnings are – investors are disappointed and the stock sells off.
Porter’s Permanent Portfolio has less than half the volatility of the stock market while earning twice the S&P 500’s returns. Producing massive excess returns with such little volatility is virtually unheard of in the markets. With higher returns and less risk, Porter’s Permanent Portfolio is overperforming our expectations.
Whether you understand it or not, the nature of money is changing forever.
As soon as people get used to using digital money, like stablecoins, they’re going to ask themselves a simple question: why bother using the U.S. dollar at all?
The next few years are going to be devastating for most people all around the world. We’re heading toward a new version of 1929. How ironic it will be if, in the future, people ask about the Great Depression of ’29 and then have to ask, “which one – 1929 or 2029?”