Innovative Portfolios: Happy 10th Birthday, Bulls of the Dow!

Indianapolis Registered Investment Advisory Firm

INDIANAPOLIS, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Portfolios marks the 10^th birthday of their portfolio strategy, Bulls of the Dow, designed to seek capital appreciation in a portfolio of 10 individual stocks selected from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Innovative Portfolios Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer Dave Gilreath came up with the Bulls of the Dow concept 10 years ago while reflecting on the Dogs of the Dow strategy during a shower. Dogs of the Dow—popular in the 80s and 90s—saw investors buy the 10 Dow stocks with the highest dividend yields, typically indicating that the stocks were lower performers of the market. Dave wondered what would happen if he purchased stocks with high performance instead—and, additionally, the 10 Dow stocks with the lowest downside risk at the time of purchase (based on quantitative data from Revelation Investment Research). And thus, Bulls of the Dow was born.

Innovative Portfolio's Bulls of the Dow strategy takes the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and assesses their fundamental strengths. Then, using Revelation Investment Research to screen for downside risk, Innovative Portfolios then buys the 10 companies identified as fundamentally strongest which also have the lowest downside risk at the time of purchase. Every quarter, the team rebalances the portfolio, taking out a few stocks and replacing them based on the updated screening evaluation. This results in a dynamic portfolio that continuously seeks out some of the strongest DJIA stocks, and Gilreath is proud of the results.

Bulls of the Dow's annualized 10-year return came in at 13.02% gross and 11.64% net of fees, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index returned 11.15% over that same time period. "It can be tough to beat the benchmark over any given year, let alone over a 10-year period," says Gilreath.

With results like these, Innovative Portfolios doesn't plan on changing their recipe for Bulls of the Dow anytime soon. "After 10 years," Gilreath says, "it's still doing exactly what we designed it to do."

About Innovative Portfolios, LLC:

Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Innovative Portfolios provides strategic investment solutions to RIAs and institutional clients, with sales team members located throughout the United States. As of 3/31/2023, AUM for the firm and its affiliates totaled $1.51 billion. Innovative Portfolios Principal Dave Gilreath is a contributor of investment commentary to CNBC.com, ThinkAdvisor, Medical Economics, and FA Financial Advisor. Visit innovativeportfolios.com for more information.

Disclosure: 

The Bulls of the Dow Composite includes portfolios that invest in our model of ten fundamentally strong stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA). Positions are large capitalization U.S. stocks and portfolios are rebalanced quarterly. The investment objective of the composite is capital appreciation and dividend income. The Bulls of the Dow composite consists of fully discretionary portfolios, including those accounts no longer with the firm. The composite excludes portfolios under $25,000. For comparison purposes the composite is measured against the DJIA. The Composite was created on January 1, 2021 and the inception date is February 1, 2013.

IP acquired the composite through a subadvisor agreement with Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors, LLC (SBIA), wholly owned by SBCM, in December 2020. Performance prior to January 1, 2021 occurred while the investment management team was affiliated with SBIA. The same investment management team has managed the composite since its inception, and the investment process has not changed. Performance prior to January 1, 2021 is linked to performance earned at SBIA.

Performance presented are time-weighted returns. Valuations and performance is reported in U.S. dollars. Composite performance is presented on gross-of-fees and net-of-fees basis and includes the reinvestment of income (dividends/interest). Gross-of-fees returns are presented before management and custodial fees but after all trading expenses. Net-of-fees returns are calculated by deducting a model management fee of 0.3125, ¼ of the highest annual management fee of 1.25%, from the quarterly gross composite return, applied the first month of each quarter. Actual advisory fees incurred by clients may vary. Policies for valuing investments, calculating performance, and preparing GIPS® reports are available upon request.

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