Are you familiar with the ABP Pension Fund? It's the largest Dutch pension fund, and with over €440 billion under management, it's among the largest in the world. ABP employs thousands of specialists every day. From private equity firms to infrastructure financiers; from hedge funds to active stock and bond managers; from lenders to traders; they all strive to contribute to achieving the best possible returns.
You'd think that with the size of the assets under management, the enormous scale of this operation, and ABP's access to top specialists, returns would be unparalleled. They're certainly not doing badly. But the chart below shows that a "small" group like us at Stoic is doing just as well. In the chart below, we compare the returns of our Stoic 60 profile with those of ABP:
Conclusion:
The fact that we at Stoic perform just as well as ABP indicates that our form of extremely passive investing (which we call Calm Capital Control) simply works just as well as a highly complex machine with thousands of specialists working daily to invent new investment strategies. Don't worry, we don't either. It's better for your assets and certainly for your peace of mind.