Rational for a Copycat Strategy
Research from Barclay and Novus published in October 2019 found that a stock selection copycat strategy that combines conviction and consensus of fund managers that have longer-term views outperformed the S&P 500 by 3.80% on average annually from Q1 2004 to Q2 2019.
Similarly, our weekly published Best10(VDIGX) trading model which selects the 10 highest ranked stocks from the holdings of the of the Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund (VDIGX) outperformed the fund and SPY since July 2014 on average by about 5.4% annually.
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