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What Worked In 2017? Nearly Everything

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2017 was a really profitable where any investment strategy of the 19 strategies we tracked would have given a great return.

World-wide the highest return was +32.6% and the lowest +16.1%.

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Even more surprising you did not even have to buy cheap (undervalued) companies to get the return – just about all strategies worked.

In spite of holding around 60% cash, my portfolio was up +9.3% (+23.3% if you ignore the cash part of my portfolio) - a return I am very happy with because it was earned by not taking a lot of risk.

What has worked in 2017 – value is not dead

So what worked best world-wide in 2017?

Here is a short summary:

  • Price to book worked VERY well +32.6% (who would...

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