Sorry for the slightly provocative title but I was just checking the best performing Income Strategies over the last couple of years to compare with my own performance as this is an investing area I'm interested in.
I saw that two of the better performing strategies were PYAD from Stephen Bland & Geraldine Weiss Lite. On checking however, I notice that the PYAD currently has 7 shares, 3 of which seem to Venture capital or investment funds. The other 4 had market caps. between £5m and £22m. Not sure anyone other than a robot would put this sort of portfolio together & I'm sure it is pretty far away from Stephen Bland's strategy as far as I understand his strategy.
Meanwhile more comically the Geraldine Weiss Strategy had 5 shares 3 of which are different lines of stock in the same company - Hong Kong Land - GIGO as the old computing phrase goes?
They are automated yes and all the material related to them says clearly that many will return lists that people would consider uninvestable. it’s designed to be a quant, data driven analysis of the strategies, mirroring the rules of the gurus as close as possible but not demo portfolios picked by humans. It’s all about the data you see. You can use the floating green icon to ask the Stockopedia team about the pyad screen in more detail if you need to.
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