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This text was revealed on Dividend Kings on Wed, Might twenty fourth.

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Sensible folks could make disastrously unhealthy investing choices.

Isaac Newton invented classical physics and calculus after which misplaced $25 million within the South Sea Bubble.

That was after first tripling his cash and getting sucked again in the appropriate earlier than the inventory fell 80%.

Stephen Greenspan actually wrote the guide on not getting conned by a con artist after which misplaced his retirement to Bernie Madoff, the biggest con artist in historical past.

I actually have made and misplaced a number of small fortunes in 1 / 4 century of “investing.” Actually, it was principally speculating, chasing the most recent “get wealthy fast” scheme.

Once I needed to retire from Military Drugs for medical causes medically, I believed my life was over. I went from coaching as an Military Surgeon saving troopers’ lives to a person and not using a trigger till I found a brand new method to serve my nation and the world.

I mixed my lifelong ardour for investing, economics, and a number of other PhDs from the college of onerous knocks and began a second profession instructing folks learn how to construct life-changing fortunes the appropriate manner. Together with avoiding disastrous errors like I made so many occasions.

• The Tech bubble? I as soon as paid 400 occasions earnings for a tech inventory that soared to a PE of 1700…after which fell 95%
• I as soon as made $75,000 in a day speculating on Apple choices after which misplaced $150,000 the very subsequent day.
• Crypto? I misplaced $100K in Bitcoin when Celsius went bankrupt

However by getting proper with the dividend gods, I used to be capable of rise like a Phoenix from the ashes and soar to new heights. I went from $50K in debt after my divorce in 2016 to changing into a millionaire right now.

And guess what? It wasn’t crypto, SPACs, meme shares, or spec tech like ARKK that bought me right here.

If there may be one factor I like greater than instructing common buyers such as you how to not lose a fortune, it is serving to family and friends save their monetary desires after shedding a fortune.

I helped my greatest pal, Sean, a pc engineer, get well from an 80% catastrophic loss in his 401K when he YOLOed into “the Robinhood of China.”

My father has 4 levels and works in finance. You’d assume he would know the highway to a wealthy retirement.

• My Father’s 401(okay) Trusts These 5 Blue-Chip Bargains, And So Can You.

However by horrible threat administration, together with a 65% place in Alibaba, he misplaced 40% of his 401K in the course of the current tech crash.

I helped him harness hyper-growth Extremely SWANs’ energy to rescue his retirement desires.

My uncle is the neatest individual I do know, with a Ph.D. from Princeton, and he misplaced $1 million within the crypto collapse of 2022.

• How I Constructed A $1 Million Excessive-Yield Retirement Portfolio With 6 Dividend Blue-Chips.

I helped him rescue his desires of adjusting the world by philanthropy with a portfolio impressed by the ZEUS Earnings Progress portfolio, the place my household now retains our life financial savings.

Rose, a household pal who made a fortune from promoting her Florida residence however was terrified to put money into a bear market.

• How I Constructed A $3 Million Excessive-Yield Portfolio With 11 Blue-Chips.

I helped her construct a high-yield ultra-low volatility blue-chip portfolio that allow her sleep properly at night time and keep absolutely invested by all of the insane financial and market turmoil of the final 12 months.

Justin, a household pal who bought an actual property enterprise for $12 million however then misplaced $1.2 million when his first inventory market expertise was fully improper for his threat profile.

• How I Constructed A $5 Million 6% Yielding Portfolio With 9 Blue-Chips.

Utilizing the Dividend Kings instruments and ZEUS technique for constructing recession-optimized portfolios, I used to be capable of assist Justin create the 6.1% yielding ultra-low volatility portfolio of his desires.

Immediately, I need to let you know a few household pal named Greg (not his actual identify, to guard his privateness).

His story is one I feel lots of people will be capable of relate to. His targets, fears, and, most significantly, the good manner that anybody can begin a model new dividend development portfolio in right now’s hyper-uncertain financial occasions.

Meet Greg: The Biggest Individual I’ve Ever Met (And Who Deserves To Be President)

Within the coronary heart of the bustling immigrant neighborhood the place Greg was raised, desires have been extra treasured than gold. He was the firstborn son of tenacious dad and mom who had left Guatemala’s wealthy but struggling landscapes, pushed by the hope of offering their youngsters a greater future.

On this vibrant mosaic of cultures and tales, Greg realized probably the most worthwhile of classes: the facility of resilience, the energy of tenacity, and the significance of compassion.

His dad and mom, a seamstress and a development employee, instilled in him an unwavering work ethic and a fiery entrepreneurial spirit that may encourage his life.

From operating a small lemonade stand as a boy to making a mini-electronic restore empire, Greg embodies willpower and grit. His enterprise, born from nights of relentless effort and sheer willpower, skyrocketed to unimaginable success.

The final word validation of his efforts got here when he lately bought his firm for $22 million, a sum that was as soon as past the realm of his or most individuals’s wildest desires.

But, the conclusion of his entrepreneurial journey is only the start of Greg’s story-one with a far larger function than private prosperity.

Guided by reminiscences of his dad and mom’ tales of kids again in Guatemala affected by vitamin A deficiency, Greg desires of creating a everlasting charitable belief. His mission is as clear as it’s noble: eradicating this silent scourge that claims 200,000 lives per 12 months.

However Greg is not a preening prima donna, an egotist out to construct monuments to his personal greatness. He isn’t trying to recreate the wheel and begin a model new charity, however as an alternative companion with trailblazers who’ve already confirmed they will save tens of millions of lives for as little as $3,500 every.

• Helen Keller Worldwide (extra of them later).

His belief, born from his compassionate coronary heart, hopefully will save 1000’s of younger lives and ultimately tens of millions. Greg’s spirit lives by each little one saved, manifesting that success is not measured by private wealth however by the distinction one makes on this planet.

Greg’s story isn’t just a story of an immigrant’s son who achieved unimaginable success.

It is an epic journey of resilience, a testomony to the facility of desires, and a reminder of the unbelievable distinction one individual could make. His story is considered one of hope, inspiring us all to dream greater, work tougher, and, most significantly, always remember the facility of giving again.

It is the type of story that stirs the soul and leaves an indelible mark on the human coronary heart, actually worthy of an Oscar-winning portrayal.

When a film is inevitably made about Greg’s life (if there may be any justice on this planet), I nominate Oscar Issac to play him.

Born to Guatemalan and Cuban dad and mom, Isaac brings the required performing prowess and a private connection to Greg’s background. His previous performances show a robust capability to convey Greg’s inspirational story to life on the massive display and doubtlessly encourage tens of millions to observe Greg’s instance of “work and make investments to offer.”

Who Greg Sort of Resembled At The Age Of 34

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What Greg Type Of Seems to be Like Immediately: The Face Of The American Dream And My Private Hero

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A Nice Man Being Pushed Loopy By This Yr’s Loopy Market

Like Justin, my colleague Brad Thomas, and 70% of the Forbes 400, Greg achieved a fortune by onerous work, self-discipline, endurance, and a little bit of luck. He is a basic instance of the American dream.

Greg is 53 and lives in Nevada (truly a distinct state, however he requested I alter it to guard his privateness), and in his 20s, he began a pc restore enterprise that later expanded into electronics of every kind. For 3 a long time, he proudly constructed his small enterprise right into a small chain of shops that he lately bought for $22 million.

After working 12 to 14-hour days, six or seven days per week, for 30 years, Greg was able to take Buffett’s recommendation.

In case you do not discover a method to become profitable whilst you sleep, you’ll work till you die.” – Warren Buffett

Greg is like Buffett in one other manner, or he thought he was; he would not worry bear markets. Just like the Oracle of Omaha, he was able to “be grasping when others are fearful.”

Gregg reads my articles on Looking for Alpha and initially was going to construct a ZEUS-style dividend development portfolio, completely balanced for his wants and targets.

• He needs to develop into a philanthropist specializing in saving younger youngsters’s lives in Asia and Africa.

However Greg fell right into a entice that many people do. He heard a narrative in regards to the economic system and what the inventory market was LIKELY to do, and he let it drive him to a expensive mistake.

When the debt ceiling disaster started, Greg was prepared to take a position $11 million (what he had after paying taxes and donating to charity) right into a ZEUS portfolio, however then he learn in considered one of my articles that S&P and Goldman thought the 2023 debt ceiling disaster could be like 2011’s, coming right down to the wire.

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He noticed this chart and thought, “If I am going all into ZROZ, I’d be capable of make $5 and even $6 million in a number of weeks. Think about how far more I can give to charity if I begin out with a ZEUS portfolio that is $6 million bigger!”

I want he had talked to me earlier than he put his plan into motion as a result of I might have proven him this desk and tried to vary his thoughts.

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Even completely timing the economic system would not beat buy-and-hold blue-chip investing, besides in the course of the Nice Despair.

So what mistake did Gregg make? He purchased $11 million price of ZROZ, the Pimco 25-year US treasury bond ETF.

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At first, all the pieces went as deliberate; ZROZ soared because it regarded like inflation would come rapidly, and the Fed would create “immaculate disinflation” and a delicate touchdown.

Then the blowout February jobs report modified the narrative in a single day. Abruptly everybody was speaking about “no touchdown” and inflation getting caught close to 5%.

Fed Chairman Powell testified earlier than Congress about how charges must go greater than anticipated and possibly even 50 foundation factors at a time.

On March eighth, the bond market was pricing in a 5.75% peak terminal Fed funds price, with no cuts this 12 months. On Bloomberg, which Greg watches, they have been speaking in regards to the Fed possibly having to go to six% and even 7%.

Greg Panic bought his lengthy bonds at a $1 million loss. That is simply 9%, however these are “risk-free” US treasury bonds, and you’ll think about the way it felt to lose a fortune in risk-free belongings.

• 4 US financial institution failures thus far have been brought on by poor threat administration and proudly owning US bonds that declined in worth.

The day after Greg bought his bonds, fearing charges would possibly rise one other 1% and even 2% (a 27% to 44% potential loss in ZROZ), Silicon Valley Financial institution of SVB Monetary Group (OTC:SIVBQ) collapsed, and bonds took off within the strongest five-day rally in 42 years.

Are you able to think about the way it felt to lose $1 million in “risk-free” bonds? Listening to Jerome Powell speak about a lot greater charges and 50 foundation level hikes on Wednesday, and by Thursday, the headlines are screaming a few banking disaster?

Properly, it did not really feel good, and like most individuals who had simply been caught fully offside by huge market strikes twice in as many months!

Greg was shell-shocked, so he simply sat in money. Like a whole lot of younger folks right now, or just these with a really very long time horizon, Greg LOVES development shares. He had been planning a ZEUS development portfolio, however his favourite development shares have been steadily climbing, and he was terrified of shopping for proper earlier than one other main market crash.

Bond yields began climbing once more, and development shares stored climbing too.

Abruptly the “onerous touchdown” all of us thought was coming after the collapse of SVB, Signature Financial institution (OTC:SBNY), and Credit score Suisse Group AG (CS) gave method to a “delicate touchdown” narrative.

Till First Republic failed, after which instantly bond yields have been crashing once more, regional banks fell as a lot as 60% in a day, and everyone seems to be speaking a few onerous touchdown once more.

However inside every week, the disaster appeared to have handed, and the market resumed its rally, and so did bond yields.

What in regards to the debt ceiling disaster that kicked off Greg’s horrible expertise with financial market timing?

Did that risk go away?

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Heck no! Moody’s got here out warning a few 4% GDP recession that might occur if we defaulted for 2 months. That is as unhealthy because the Nice Recession.

Then the Joint Financial Committee warned of a possible 6% GDP recession that may very well be 50% worse than the Nice Recession, price 8 million jobs, and trigger shares to crash 45%.

And now Bloomberg Economics is warning {that a} 3-month default might trigger an 8% GDP recession, twice as unhealthy because the Nice Monetary Disaster.

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UBS simply got here out warning that shares might fall 20% in a single week if we go previous the X-date and fall as a lot as 44% by the top of June.

In one other curveball for the market, Home speaker Kevin McCarthy left the Capitol late Tuesday saying the 2 sides had but to succeed in a deal over the US debt ceiling, and considered one of his chief negotiators added there aren’t any extra conferences deliberate. The deadlock means it is doubtless the Home and Senate will each must vote on any deal subsequent week, mere hours earlier than Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has stated the US might run out of money. The standoff is weighing on international shares as buyers search haven belongings.” – Bloomberg (emphasis added).

Similar to S&P and Goldman predicted initially of the 12 months, we’re going proper right down to the wire, risking defaulting on $144 billion in funds to the likes of Medicare and Social Safety funds subsequent Thursday and Friday.

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Okay, so now the bond market is lastly rallying, and the inventory market is crashing, proper? Similar to 2011?

Nope, shares are principally flat, and so are bonds.

What about probably the most anticipated recession in historical past? The one which was supposed to begin in January and be over by the top of June?

Is that canceled? Does that specify why the monetary markets are ignoring the best default threat in U.S. historical past (10%, in line with Moody’s)?

Financial institution of America’s (BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan now expects an roughly 1.5% GDP recession to begin in July and final 9 months. That is a recession 3X extra extreme than what the typical economist expects.

Okay, so one financial institution CEO expects a tough touchdown. However are you aware who else does? Ed Hyam probably the most correct economist of the final 42 years.

• Roughly 1.5% GDP recession lasting 9 months and 5.2% peak unemployment
• 3 million job losses.

And but the inventory market sits there, refusing to budge out of a freakishly steady buying and selling vary.

Why?

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Due to an AI tech inventory rally that has the S&P 9 doing nice whereas the S&P 491 is down for the 12 months.

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The S&P is definitely down on the 12 months, with the market-cap weighted index held aloft by 9 corporations.

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It is at all times and endlessly a market of shares, not a inventory market. However in 2023, that is very true.

“What The Frack Do I Do Now?”

It is a query many buyers are asking themselves lately.

No one can predict rates of interest, the longer term route of the economic system, or the inventory market. Dismiss all such forecasts and focus on what’s truly taking place to the businesses wherein you have invested.”- Peter Lynch.

It is easy to cite the best buyers in historical past or present by dozens of research, charts, and tables that purchasing a diversified portfolio proper to your targets is the most suitable choice.

However investing $10 million forward of what may be the highest of an AI tech bubble may be very totally different.

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A bubble that might finish as early as Wed night time, when Nvidia Company (NVDA), the king of the AI bubble shares, reviews earnings priced as if God have been operating the corporate.

• If You have Purchased Nvidia Inventory This Yr, Promote Earlier than Earnings (Downgrade).

What occurs if the king of AI hype disappoints on earnings for the primary time in 3.5 years?

• Once I misplaced $150K in Apple in a single day, it hadn’t missed earnings in eight years.

The AI hype bubble might pop in a single day, collapsing additional quick by fears of a debt ceiling default.

• Remember that on June 1 and June 2; the US is obligated to pay $144 billion that we do not have and will not have.

If the 9 shares holding up the market, which is primarily being pushed by AI hype, instantly deflate, what’s left holding up the S&P 491, which is already down 5% on the 12 months?

Completely nothing.

S&P Bear Market Backside Situations

Earnings Decline Historic Trough PE Of 14 (13 to fifteen vary) Decline From Present Stage Peak Decline From Document Highs 0% (Blue-chip consensus, mildest recession in historical past) 3214 22.0% -33.3% 5% (Morgan Stanley) 3054 25.9% -36.6% 10% 2893 29.8% -40.0% 13% 2796 32.1% -42.0% 15% (Moody’s 2-month debt default) 2732 33.7% -43.3% 20% 2571 37.6% -46.6% 25% 2411 41.5% -50.0% 30% (3-month debt default) 2250 45.4% -53.3% Click on to enlarge

This is the reason Morgan Stanley thinks shares will principally fall 26% earlier than bottoming later this 12 months (base-case September).

It is why shares have not going bottomed even when we get a delicate touchdown.

It is why if we get a debt default, the 2022 bear market might develop into the third 50% crash within the final 20 years.

And guess what? Progress shares? The sort which can be crushing it this 12 months and that so many individuals, together with Greg, love? They’re traditionally 25% extra risky than the S&P.

If the market falls 26%, as Morgan Stanley thinks is most definitely, then development shares might fall round 33%.

And if we get a deft default? Progress shares might doubtlessly get reduce in half.

How To Begin A Giant Portfolio Even In Loopy Instances Whereas Staying Secure And Sane

“Wait a second; you are saying I’d lose $3.3 million to $5 million if I purchase my favourite development shares right now? That is loopy! I would like to sit down in money!”

That is Greg’s response to the concept of investing his remaining $10 million proper now, and I am certain that lots of people would agree it appears loopy, particularly for somebody who simply misplaced $1 million in “risk-free” U.S. bonds.

However let me present you the way I satisfied Greg that it is not loopy; it is “loopy like a fox.”

Huge Moat Analysis

That is the center of the Dividend Kings ZEUS technique.

• Zen Extraordinary Extremely SWAN (Sleep Properly At Evening).

The simplest hedging technique of the final 53 years, combining long-duration U.S. treasuries with managed futures.

Why is a 33% allocation to the perfect hedging technique in historical past so highly effective? As a result of it results in 50% to 75% smaller declines in bear markets? Certain, that is a part of it.

That is what makes ZEUS the recession-optimized portfolio.

• 67% shares 33% hedges is the optimum allocation since 1950 in line with Nick Magiulli, Chief Knowledge Scientist for Riholtz Wealth Administration.

However right here is why my life financial savings is invested within the ZEUS technique.

I do not thoughts volatility; the truth is I need to embrace it like a lover.

What’s Buffett’s “grasping when others are fearful” about if not shopping for bear market blue-chip bargains?

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How else are you able to earn 50% common positive aspects in a single 12 months besides by shopping for in bear markets?

That is the great thing about the perfect hedging technique of the final 53 years.

On common, for each 1% the market falls, the hedging bucket goes up 1%.

So, the extra shares fall, the extra your hedges become profitable.

Certain, that results in a lot smaller peak declines, letting you journey over the market’s most excessive potholes in a Rolls Royce.

Nevertheless it additionally signifies that you even have one thing to promote at a revenue in a bear market.

Are you jealous of Warren Buffett’s $131 billion pile of money at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A)? Want you had his $2 billion in month-to-month free money movement? Certain, who would not?

However when you might have the perfect long-term hedging combo of the final 53 years working for you, then you may mint your personal “dry powder” and at all times have a full “elephant gun” for blue-chip discount searching.

Have you learnt why 70% of the time, the perfect funding technique is to be 100% absolutely invested?

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As a result of shares go up 76% of all years. However 30% of the time bear markets enable for rebalancing hedges into blue-chips at bear market valuations.

Traditionally proudly owning some hedges and rebalancing in bear markets boosts returns by about 20%, even after taxes.

• 10% long-term returns develop into 12% long-term returns.

And let’s not overlook the psychological advantage of a diversified portfolio that features non-correlated asset courses.

Most individuals are petrified of bear markets. ZEUS buyers love them.

The extra shares fall within the short-term, the extra the hedges go up in worth and the stronger the revenue and return enhance over time.

Buffett by no means has to fret about not having money to purchase bargains in a bear market, and neither do ZEUS buyers.

What if shares do not crash? What in the event that they commerce flat as a result of for the primary time in historical past we get a delicate touchdown regardless of inflation beginning at over 5%? What if the yield curve is improper for the primary time in 73 years?

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What if shares bottomed earlier than the recession even started, for the primary time in 77 years? Then a ZEUS investor wins, by being invested and letting the world’s biggest corporations be just right for you.

What if shares fall 26% and development shares fall 33%? Then ZEUS wins even greater.

What if a debt default causes a forty five% market crash and development shares get reduce in half? Then ZEUS wins most of all.

With the ZEUS technique, long-term buyers cannot lose, not until they panic promote, and with tremendous low volatility, the chance of that’s a lot smaller than with virtually every other portfolio technique.

How I Constructed A $10 Million Dividend Portfolio With 13 World-Beater Blue-Chips

Final weekend I spent 20 hours with Greg strolling him by an important DK “Making ready For Recession” movies and displaying him learn how to use our instruments.

• freed from cost in alternate for permission to inform his story and present the portfolio
• so long as I modified his identify and what state he lives in.

That is what he ended up deciding on, his ZEUS Hyper-Progress portfolio. The portfolio that is ideally suited to his threat profile, targets, time horizon, and even his current $1 million bomb-shell bond loss.

Greg’s Hyper-Progress Inventory Bucket: 33% Of The Portfolio

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Right here is the expansion inventory bucket so as of complete return potential. I’ve linked to articles for additional analysis.

Why these ten development shares?

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• 92% High quality very low threat 13/13 Extremely SWANs
• 88% dividend security: very protected, 1.6% extreme recession reduce threat
• yield 1.4% vs. 0.7% Nasdaq
• valuation: 21% low cost to honest worth vs. -2% Nasdaq
• development consensus: 19.7% vs. 11.8% Nasdaq
• Lengthy-term consensus complete return potential: 21.1% vs. 12.5% Nasdaq
• 5-Yr Consensus complete return potential: 25.6% CAGR = 213% vs. 50% S&P
• S&P long-term threat administration: eightieth percentile -very low threat, glorious threat administration
• Credit standing: A- steady 2.55 30-year chapter threat.

Completely beautiful fundamentals from these 10 hyper-growth Extremely SWANs.

Fortress steadiness sheets, glorious threat administration, and dividends with twice the yield of the Nasdaq and far safer.

Okay, so the basics look wonderful, however what about that 21% long-term return potential? 9% greater than the Nasdaq? That is what analysts anticipate.

And it is what they’ve delivered during the last 17 years.

Whole Returns Since 2006

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9% traditionally higher annual returns than the Nasdaq, leading to 4X higher returns during the last 17 years.

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Okay, that is wonderful historic returns, wonderful consensus future returns, and fundamentals so stunning they might make a grown man weep with pleasure.

However what about that pathetic yield of 1.4%? Certain, it is twice that of the Nasdaq, however what’s the level of a 1.4% yielding portfolio?

As a result of revenue development tracks complete returns over time.

22% Annual Earnings Progress Since 2007

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From a 1.9% yield in 2007 to a 38% yield on price in 2022 = 22% annual revenue development.

• S&P 2.2% yield in 2007 to a 6.8% yield on price in 2022 = 7.8% annual revenue development
• Nasdaq: 0.4% yield in 2007 to six.3% yield on price in 2022 = 20.2% annual revenue development.

The Nasdaq is the king of fast-growing dividends however was crushed by these ten hyper-growth Extremely SWANs. A few of which do not truly pay dividends. But it is nonetheless a superior dividend portfolio to the Nasdaq in almost each elementary manner.

Now Add The Final Progress ETF

The Howard Marks/John Templeton certainty restrict says which you can solely ever be 80% sure in regards to the fundamentals of any given firm.

In any case, Basic Electrical (GE) in 2000 was an AAA-rated dividend aristocrat that hadn’t missed earnings in a decade and was run by Fortune’s “CEO of the century.”

And everyone knows how that turned out.

I can say with 80% absolute certainty, “I am going to die on this hill” confidence that this can be a great Extremely SWAN hyper-dividend development portfolio.

And what I am improper? What if all the basics flip south within the coming years? What if every considered one of these is the subsequent GE?

Then they might be bought lengthy earlier than they turned everlasting, catastrophic losses.

However are you aware what Wall Road’s soiled secret is?

Huge Moat Analysis

Most shares suck very badly. 44% of all U.S. shares endure 70+% crashes and by no means get well.

And that is why the ZEUS technique makes use of a 33% allocation to the world’s greatest ETFs.

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I personally like SPGP and COWZ as development ETFs however Greg did not need them as a result of they’ve excessive turnover and thus change what they owe throughout the financial cycle.

He wished the king of fast-growth core world-beater ETFs, so that is the Schwab U.S. Giant-Cap Progress ETF (SCHG)

• Why SCHG is best than the Nasdaq.

Hedges: For Extremely SWANing And Rebalancing Into Bear Market Blue-Chip Bargains

Take into account including a 16.67% allocation to long-duration bonds like PIMCO 25+ Yr Zero Coupon U.S. Treasury Index Trade-Traded Fund ETF.

• 6 Excessive-Yield ETFs For Up To 60% Positive aspects In The Coming Recession.

And a 16.67% allocation to managed futures like KFA Mount Lucas Index Technique ETF (KMLM).

• 4 Excessive-Yield ETFs That Might Increase Your Retirement Earnings 33%.

ZEUS Hyper-Progress

Inventory Yield Progress Whole Return Weighting Weighted Yield Weighted Progress Weighted Return SCHG 0.5% 13.5% 14.0% 33.33% 0.2% 4.5% 4.7% ZROZ 4.0% 0% 4.0% 16.67% 0.7% 0.0% 0.7% KMLM 8.5% 0.0% 8.5% 16.67% 1.4% 0.0% 1.4% AMZN 0.0% 27.6% 27.6% 3.33% 0.0% 0.9% 0.9% LOW 2.0% 19.7% 21.7% 3.33% 0.1% 0.7% 0.7% MA 0.6% 19.1% 19.7% 3.33% 0.0% 0.6% 0.7% ASML 1.0% 24.2% 25.2% 3.33% 0.0% 0.8% 0.8% BAM 4.1% 17.5% 21.6% 3.33% 0.1% 0.6% 0.7% SBUX 2.1% 19.1% 21.2% 3.33% 0.1% 0.6% 0.7% NFLX 0% 18.40% 18.40% 3.33% 0.0% 0.6% 0.6% CRM 0% 18.60% 18.60% 3.33% 0.0% 0.6% 0.6% AMP 1.80% 15.90% 17.70% 3.33% 0.1% 0.5% 0.6% CAT 2.3% 15.30% 17.56% 3.33% 0.1% 0.5% 0.6% Whole 100.00% 2.7% 11.0% 13.7% Click on to enlarge

Now you may not assume that 13.7% long-term return potential is that spectacular. However take into account this.

Nasdaq’s Historic Returns

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The Nasdaq is the best-performing index in American historical past, with 13.5% annual returns for 37 years.

• $1 invested in 1985 is now price $116
• $40 adjusted for inflation.

ZEUS Hyper-Progress Vs. Nasdaq

Metric Nasdaq ZEUS Hyper-Progress X Higher Than S&P 500 Yield 0.7% 2.7% 3.86 Progress Consensus 11.7% 11.0% 0.94 LT Consensus Whole Return Potential 12.4% 13.7% 1.10 Danger-Adjusted Anticipated Return 8.7% 9.6% 1.10 Secure Withdrawal Price (Danger And Inflation-Adjusted Anticipated Returns) 6.4% 7.3% 1.14 Conservative Time To Double (Years) 11.2 9.8 1.14 Click on to enlarge

(Sources: DK Analysis Terminal, FactSet.)

Higher return potential than the Nasdaq, with 4X the yield and a protected withdrawal price of seven%, 3X that of a 60/40.

What in regards to the historic returns?

Historic Returns Since December 2007 (Begin Of The Nice Recession)

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A 67% inventory 33% hedged portfolio beating the Nasdaq? Inconceivable! But it occurred, and analysts assume that over the long run it would maintain taking place.

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Even the typical annual rolling returns stored up with the Nasdaq throughout a interval when the Nasdaq was all however unbeatable.

And remember about one of many key causes to personal a ZEUS portfolio, volatility so low it is like rolling over probably the most excessive market potholes in a Rolls Royce.

Historic Bear Markets

Bear Market ZEUS Hyper-Progress 60/40 S&P Nasdaq 2022 Stagflation -20% -21% -28% -35% Pandemic Crash -6% -13% -34% -13% 2018 -13% -9% -21% -17% 2011 Debt Ceiling Disaster -2% -16% -22% -11% Nice Recession -25% -44% -58% -59% 2008 -12% -33% -37% -42% Common -13% -23% -33% -30% Median Decline -13% -19% -31% -26% Click on to enlarge

40% smaller peak declines than a 60/40, 60% smaller peak declines than the S&P, and 55% smaller declines than the Nasdaq throughout bear markets.

Now that is SWANiness.

In 2011’s debt ceiling disaster, ZEUS Hyper-Progress fell 80% lower than the Nasdaq and 90% lower than the S&P. Actually, it barely fell in any respect, simply 2%, and that was the height decline.

75-Yr Monte Carlo Simulation: A Statistical Look At The Probably Future

10,000 simulations of the subsequent 75 years based mostly on the final 15 years.

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Over the subsequent 75 years, this portfolio is statistically most definitely to ship 11.5% inflation-adjusted returns turning Greg’s $10 million into $36 billion in right now’s cash.

It is 90% doubtless by no means to endure worse than a 43% peak decline.

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It is 99.89% more likely to beat a 60/40 over the subsequent 50 years.

It is 97.37% more likely to beat the S&P 500 over the subsequent 50 years.

It is 80% more likely to beat the Nasdaq over the subsequent 50 years.

Greg defines success as beating the Nasdaq whereas avoiding Nasdaq like 50+% crashes as success.

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Not solely is that this portfolio not more likely to fall 50%, however its chance of falling even 40% is simply 0.28% over the subsequent 75 years.

• A 40+% crash is anticipated as soon as each 26,775 years.

Heck, a 20+% bear market is just a 5% chance.

• A bear market happens as soon as each 1,500 years.

Impressed but? Greg was amazed on the energy of ZEUS to create a dividend hyper-growth portfolio that is superior to the Nasdaq in each manner.

So let’s take a better have a look at the basics of the portfolio.

ZEUS Hyper-Progress Fundamentals Evaluate

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This was designed to be a large-cap development portfolio although its 36% invested in different issues as properly.

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It is an aggressive development portfolio.

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Naturally, it is tech-focused however has publicity to each a part of the economic system.

Morningstar

It is all North American and European corporations, as that is the place virtually all world beaters come from.

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The common hedge fund expenses 5% per 12 months in charges through the two% and 20% construction.

ZEUS Hyper-Progress prices 0.29%, 17X much less.

Actually, whereas the standard hedge fund would price Greg $500,000 per 12 months in charges, with ZEUS hyper-growth, it is simply $19,116.28.

• $481,000 extra he can donate to charity annually.

Have you learnt why that issues? As a result of Greg is not trying to get rather a lot richer over time. He is out to avoid wasting lives and alter the world.

How Greg’s ZEUS Hyper-Progress Portfolio Might Save 10 Million Lives In The Subsequent 75 Years

Now that he is bought his enterprise and achieved monetary success larger than most individuals can ever dream of, Greg’s huge objective is to avoid wasting lives.

Helen Keller Worldwide is his favourite charity. It is mine as properly; he is the one who instructed me about it.

• 2:1 match is now obtainable by June fifth (as much as $100,000); I am donating $4,100 to avoid wasting 2.34 youngsters.

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If you need in depth and rigorous statistical and scientific proof (together with dozens of research) that HKI is without doubt one of the handiest charities on earth, you may learn GiveWell’s extraordinarily detailed report right here.

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Relaxation assured; that is scientific spreadsheet altruism at its best.

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GiveWell ranks Helen Keller Worldwide as one of many 4 handiest charities on this planet as measured by the price of life saved.

$3,500 to avoid wasting one kid’s life by administering 2,846 vitamin A supplemental doses for kids between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.

For roughly $700 million per 12 months, the 200,000 annual vitamin-A deficiency-related deaths may very well be eradicated from the earth.

200,000 youngsters per 12 months die, the equal of the inhabitants of Santa Barbara, California, or Oxford, England. That is 100% pointless, and I’ll assist cease it, and so will Greg.

How A lot Of A Distinction Greg’s Portfolio Can Make

Have you learnt why I spent 30 hours working with Greg on this text? As a result of he is not only a good individual, he is one of many biggest people I’ve ever met.

He is planning on turning his ZEUS portfolio right into a charitable belief, which would be the handiest manner of saving younger youngsters from vitamin A deficiency.

Charitable trusts keep away from 98% of taxes paid in taxable accounts so long as they pay 5% of their investable belongings yearly.

• He is planning on paying himself 0.5% of his belongings to cowl his residing bills to manage the belief
• and one other 0.5% to cowl all authorized/compliance prices, together with board members.

In different phrases, Greg needs to take his life’s fortune and begin saving lives instantly whereas nonetheless residing a snug life-style.

• his spouse will get a $60,000 annual pension when she retires in 20 years
• she’s at present making $100,000 per 12 months.

Okay, so how a lot can Greg anticipate to donate with a perpetual charitable ZEUS Hyper-Progress belief? Listed below are the statistical estimates in inflation-adjusted phrases.

• tenth percentile (practical worst case): $6.4 billion over 75 years ($85 million per 12 months common) = 1.8 million youngsters saved
• twenty fifth percentile (conservative case): $14.8 billion over 75 years ($197 million per 12 months on common = 4.2 million youngsters saved
• fiftieth percentile (base-case): $35.1 billion over 75 years ($466 million per 12 months on common) = 9.9 million youngsters saved
• seventy fifth percentile (bullish case): $82.1 billion over 75 years ($1.1 billion per 12 months on common) = 23 million youngsters saved
• ninetieth percentile (greatest case): $173 billion over 75 years ($2.3 billion per 12 months on common) = 49 million youngsters saved.

Do not forget that for $700 million per 12 months ($52.5 inflation-adjusted {dollars} over 75 years), all 200,000 pointless little one deaths from vitamin A deficiency may be stopped.

With this ZEUS Hyper-Progress portfolio, 67% of these deaths may be prevented…by Greg alone.

Add in my belief’s donations, and Greg and I collectively will resolve this downside inside 75 years.

And in actuality, different folks donating will resolve it a lot faster.

And as soon as this downside is solved, Greg and I’ll direct extra donations wherever they will save probably the most lives and carry the most individuals out of poverty.

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Backside Line: The World’s Greatest Dividend Progress Shares Can Change Your Life And The World

I’ve had the enjoyment and privilege of instructing 1000’s of individuals over time to take a position higher and put themselves on observe to attain their monetary desires.

I’ve relished the possibility to assist family and friends rescue their retirements and monetary targets.

I’ve labored with some wonderful folks, some who did all the pieces proper and a few who, like Justin and Greg, made easy errors that price them a fortune.

However by no means have I been so impressed by a person as this, whose life epitomizes the American dream and whose monetary aspirations are the final word instance of humanity’s higher angels.

This man is my brother from one other mom, and collectively we construct a portfolio that can enhance the world, save lives, and alter the course of human historical past.

All thanks to those 10 hyper-growth world-beaters:

Together with 3 ETFs, Greg’s dream of ending vitamin A-deficiency little one deaths is properly on observe.

• SCHG for development
• ZROZ for lengthy bonds
• KMLM for managed futures.

Possibly you do not have $10 million to take a position; possibly it is simply $10,000 and even $1,000. The ZEUS investing technique works at any scale and can assist anybody dwell their greatest investing life.

However I hope you are taking Greg’s inspirational story and the teachings I’ve taught him and so many different readers over time to search out hope in what would possibly appear to be a hopeless world proper now.

In case you can belief something, belief that due to nice folks on this planet like Greg and his great household, we’ll get by this collectively.

The debt ceiling disaster of 2023 is frightening. The recession of 2023 will doubtless be scarier. And the approaching bear market goes to really feel like the top of the world to many.

However as somebody who has been by far worse, together with three recessions, six bear markets, and two financial catastrophes, I’ve religion; the top is just not night time.

A brighter future is coming sooner than you assume, and Extremely SWAN world-beater portfolio like this can assist you journey out the storm and embrace the bull market joys on the opposite facet.