This is the home of the Mad Money Machine Lazy Portfolio Smackdown 2008.
The following table shows the Lazy Portfolios from the “Investment Professionals” followed by the individual entries in the Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Game. They are sorted by YTD return from 31 Dec 2007 thru end of the most recent month. I’m letting Foliodex.com calculate the standard deviations and Sharpe Ratios on the portfolios. To see the contents of each portfolio, cross-reference the ID number in the first column with the sorted list on this page. Want to be REALLY lazy?
You can discuss the Lazy Portfolios at the Bogleheads forum.
Note, the results below DO include bond holdings.
Professional Lazy Portfolios
| ID | Professional Lazy Portfolio | Thru 31 Oct |
| L29 | Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio | -10.3% |
| L15 | Scott Burns’ Couch Potato Portfolio | -20.4% |
| L13 | Bill Schultheis’ Coffeehouse Portfolio Vanguard | -20.9% |
| L12 | Bill Schultheis’ Coffeehouse Portfolio ETFs | -21.6% |
| L22 | FundAdvice Ultimate Buy & Hold | -22.1% |
| L10 | William Bernstein’s No Brainer Cowards Portfolio | -23.0% |
| L07 | John Wasnik’s Nano Investment Portfolio | -24.0% |
| L18 | Scott Burns’ Five Fold Portfolio | -24.6% |
| L09 | William Bernstein’s Basic No-Brainer Portfolio | -25.1% |
| L14 | David Swensen’s Lazy Portfolio | -25.4% |
| L06 | Frank Armstrong’s Ideal Index Portfolio | -25.8% |
| L11 | Bill Schultheis’ Coffeehouse Portfolio Three ETF | -26.8% |
| L19 | Scott Burns’ Six Ways from Sunday Portfolio | -26.9% |
| L04 | Ben Stein Retirement | -27.9% |
| L08 | Andrew Tobias’ Lazy Portfolio | -28.6% |
| L16 | Scott Burns’ Margarita (also Andrew Tobias) Portfolio | -28.6% |
| L17 | Scott Burns’ Four Square Portfolio | -28.9% |
| L03 | Ben Stein 2007 | -30.8% |
| L20 | Ted Aronson’s Lazy Portfolio | -33.5% |
| L23 | MMM Do It Yourself Funds | -36.3% |
| L24 | MMM Do It Yourself ETFs | -36.3% |
| L05 | Jim Lowell’s Sower’s Growth Portfolio | -36.6% |
| L02 | WisdomTree | -36.9% |
| L27 | Bogle Tax-Sheltered | -37.0% |
| L28 | MMM SMILER Funds | -37.0% |
| L01 | IFA Index Portfolio 100 Bright Red | -37.6% |
| L21 | Merriman Vanguard Equity | -37.7% |
You can view an interactive graph of these results at Foliodex.com.
Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Game Entries
These are the entries in the Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Game. You can view an interactive graph of these entries at Foliodex.com that includes the annualized Sharpe Ratio for each portfolio also. To view the contents of each portfolio, cross-reference the ID number with the listing on this page.
| ID | INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES | Thru 31 Oct |
| 20 | mudfud | 41.8% |
| 64 | Tex Williams | 31.5% |
| 59 | Cosmo | 1.1% |
| 3 | Quasimodo | -12.1% |
| 2 | Ariel | -13.6% |
| 16 | HAZEL | -15.4% |
| 45 | Bev and Mike Cote | -15.9% |
| 39 | gflippin | -17.6% |
| 15 | BigD53 | -18.6% |
| 61 | hudson | -21.0% |
| 9 | bpp | -21.5% |
| 25 | frb53 | -22.4% |
| 1 | CyberBob | -23.0% |
| 18 | zhiwiller | -23.2% |
| 30 | RTR2006 | -23.4% |
| 55 | unclemick | -24.0% |
| 34 | dougpnca | -24.3% |
| 58 | Rob Hooper | -24.4% |
| 26 | grok87 | -24.5% |
| 24 | MrBG | -24.6% |
| 36 | jacqueeagonsr | -25.1% |
| 22 | Sunny | -26.0% |
| 49 | T. Herrera | -26.1% |
| 37 | orthros | -26.2% |
| 62 | jar2574 | -26.3% |
| 50 | Garen Wisner | -26.5% |
| 12 | Bounca | -26.5% |
| 63 | petrico | -27.3% |
| 67 | Mr. Sharpe | -27.9% |
| 10 | mikenz | -28.4% |
| 27 | tetractys | -28.6% |
| 29 | tslemoyne | -29.5% |
| 31 | PlainJane | -29.7% |
| 19 | sgr000 | -30.5% |
| 35 | peter71 | -30.7% |
| 21 | CRM1234 | -30.9% |
| 57 | Chris Baskerville | -31.7% |
| 5 | Jarrod | -32.5% |
| 17 | Justin618 | -33.1% |
| 56 | Mark Allen | -33.1% |
| 4 | Diver | -33.3% |
| 42 | Troy Jones | -33.5% |
| 41 | Kevin Ucker | -33.7% |
| 32 | LH | -35.1% |
| 8 | james22 | -35.5% |
| 48 | Nick Linkberg | -35.9% |
| 65 | Kiran Rasaretnam | -36.2% |
| 7 | baw703916 | -36.4% |
| 46 | Jay Wysocki | -37.3% |
| 47 | Brooks Childers | -37.6% |
| 11 | TheEternalVortex | -37.6% |
| 51 | Jennifer & Mark (fundadvice) | -37.7% |
| 54 | lew | -37.8% |
| 66 | Listener32 | -37.8% |
| 38 | lazyrad | -38.0% |
| 14 | livesoft | -38.1% |
| 52 | bolt | -38.8% |
| 40 | RavJim | -39.3% |
| 6 | MWCA | -39.7% |
| 60 | TnGuy | -39.8% |
| 23 | JackS | -40.5% |
| 28 | Blackhawkzone | -40.6% |
| 33 | DR | -40.7% |
| 53 | Pete B | -41.3% |
| 43 | Frank Woodbery | -44.8% |
| 13 | poulinbob | -48.6% |
| 44 | Todd Good | #VALUE! |
The 2006 Portfolio Smackdown! results are in. Does Lazy Investing beat Jim Cramer?:
We have a winner: The MONEY MACHINE beats the MAD MONEY! Yearly return for 2006:
| IFA Index Portfolio 100 (net of IFA and DFA fees) as of 29 December 2006 |
22.51% GREAT YEAR!!!! |
| Portfolio of Select Jim Cramer Featured Stocks |
-0.2% Lost money! |
Get more details about the IFA Index Portfolio 100 at Index Funds Advisors (ifa.com).
View more detail about the 2006 Portfolio Smackdown results.
