Low turnover which can lead directly to tax efficiency
Lower portfolio volatility
Disciplined, yield-driven buy and sell process
Focus on stocks that currently have high yields
Portfolio Characteristics
Above market yield
Below market beta
Annual turnover below 17%
25 to 35 holdings
Only S&P 500 stocks
Buy Process
Screen for yield:
stocks with yields above the market yield
Compare to historical relative yield:
stocks with historically low prices
Analyze companies:
stocks which pass intensive fundamental analysis
Diversify:
control risk by selecting securities which represent current sector and industry weightings
Sell Discipline
Berkeley strives to minimize portfolio losses and to outperform the overall market by practicing quantitative sell disciplines including a stop-loss discipline. We will sell a stock for any of the following reasons:
yield falls at least one standard deviation below its historic
relative yield,
yield declines to the yield of the market,
price declines 20% from our cost relative to the market
(a stop-loss), or