All right, everybody. Welcome back to another portfolio update from The Simple Side. Sorry, this one is coming at you so late, so deep into the week, even though it’s only Tuesday. Usually, I try to get these out over the weekend, but we’re going to talk about all our portfolios and their performances.

Let’s get into it right now. All right. As I said, these updates, these performance results are coming out somewhat late, so I am going to try to just quickly run through all the portfolios individually, and then we’ll just finish it off like that, just so you have a quick update on what I’m thinking about in all the portfolios that I’m managing. And you can decide whether or not you want to adjust or allocate capital, in between or across any of these portfolios.

Alternative Managed Portfolios (offered on Autopilot)

Perplexity Finance

We’ll start off, as always, with the alternatively managed portfolios that I have. These are the two portfolios that aren’t specifically The Simple Side related but are, in other ways, shape, or form, portfolios that I’m managing on autopilot. The first one, of course, is the Perplexity Finance portfolio, which is what we’re going to start with here. I think the last time we spoke, year to date, the portfolio was up something like 28%.

I’m looking at my pilot dashboard in Autopilot. I’m seeing year to date aggregate performance is now 33.81%. So very impressive performance there. Very happy with that.

It looks like our total assets under management on this portfolio are now $819,000, which is great. And of course, the S&P 500 over the same period of time only averaged an 8.96% return. So outperforming that by over 20%, which is very impressive in this portfolio. We’re heavily weighted in basically no stocks in this portfolio.

Our allocation percentages across all of our top holdings are less than 10%. We have a couple that are over five, I think about five different stocks that are over 5% in the portfolio. But everything else is under 10%. Our top-performing stock is Micron Technology, ticker MU.

We’re up around 381% on the stock, as of the time of recording, obviously. And our number two performer is Lam Research Corporation, ticker LRCX, and that’s up about 96% at the time of recording. Last week, the portfolio year to date was up 28.78%, so seeing now that we’re up 33.81% is great to see. We’re growing week over week.

And last time we looked at the three-month performance, I think we were up 20.29%, and now we are sitting at up 29.38%. So, impressive performance over the past three months as well.

InsiderEdges.com (Portfolio & Website)

And the next actively managed alternative portfolio that we have is the insideredges.com portfolio. I just made a bunch of adjustments in this portfolio based on some new changes that the Insider Edges team made on their website, some new premium portfolios that they added, and things of that nature. For some reason, on my autopilot dashboard, I can’t get the year-to-date returns pulled up, but I can see that over the past three months, we’re up around 10.21%, slightly underperforming the S&P 500, which is up around 13.5% over the same period of time. And it looks like we’re sort of underperforming on this portfolio over the past month, week, and so overall underperformance from this portfolio.

I’m trying to pull up what the year-to-date returns are. Yeah, I don’t know why I can’t get that pulled up. Not a big deal. In this portfolio, our top position is also Micron Technology, ticker MU.

Allocation here is about 17% in the portfolio. And since I just adjusted all these picks yesterday and this morning, we’re seeing a bit of a sell-off in the market. I’m showing down about 8% on that Micron position. Our second-largest position is Amazon, ticker AMZN.

Allocation here is about 7.72%, and it looks like we are down 3.9% on that position. Of course, again, entered into yesterday. So down on a couple of those positions on a market sell-off. But as always, expecting performance to come as those picks kind of start to play out.

Managed Portfolios (offered on Autopilot)

The Flagship Fund

All right, and now we’re going to take a look at the flagship fund, which is our primary investment vehicle. This is where a majority of my money goes, and how I’ve been investing since 2020. So if we take a look here, it looks like year to date, I’m showing on the autopilot dashboard. And again, this is client aggregate performance.

So out of everybody that’s invested in the portfolio, the average return across all of those people is this number. So this might not be exactly indicative of your performance, but overall, this is what the portfolio is averaging. We’re up 13.57% on the year. Of course, that is above the S&P 500, which again is at 8.96%.

So very happy to see that, especially when you go back and look at late March when we were down 14.53%, and the S&P 500 was outperforming us quite well at that period of time, down only 7.49%. So we were extremely down, and this is when software stocks were selling off. We were heavily indexed in software, and we’ve seen just a great resurgence from the portfolio there, now outperforming the S&P 500. So very happy with how that looks.

If I go through and look at our holdings, our top holding, ASML, is 13.65% of the portfolio. We’re up about 50% on that holding. Google is sitting at number two, up about 71% on that portfolio with an allocation of 12.16%. So good performance coming out of our top picks here in this portfolio.

Something that we are heavily indexed in now, no longer software, but we are heavily indexed in a lot of semiconductor stocks here. I still think these are very quality names, but watching the sell-off kind of happening this morning, we’re probably going to see some poor performance coming out of this portfolio. Until that, what you could call a semiconductor sell-off stops, if and when it stops, and I’m sure it will. I’m not very worried about that at all.

We have a lot of other quality names in our portfolio that are kind of underperforming. So I expect if semiconductors do sell off, we’ll see our portfolio come down a little bit. However, those other names, those other quality names, we should probably see a rise out of those, as they are less “growth” focused. And I’m getting an alert right now that Micron is down about 10%, so that’s going to hit us pretty hard in those other two alternatively managed portfolios, insideredges.com and Perplexity Finance.

So if you’re in those portfolios, be prepared for a bit of a drawdown. I’m sure that it’s going to come in ASML as well, and some of the other semiconductor stocks that I have. So just be ready for a drawdown today, but it shouldn’t be anything too distraught. I wouldn’t be too distraught about it, I’m sure.

This sell-off is a lot of news-focused, not a lot of fundamental changes that I’ve seen. So I wouldn’t be too worried about it.

The Tech Growth Portfolio

All right. The next thing that we have for you guys is the tech focus growth portfolio, which, surprisingly, I just have not been able to find a solid footing with this portfolio and the holdings and the performance across the board. Top performers, Zeta Global Holdings, ticker ZETA, Ouster, ticker OUST, 12.2% and 11.96% allocations for those two stocks. Zeta is up 34.2%.

Ouster is up 107.6%. So great performance on our top two picks, but everything else below that has just been, like I said, struggling to kind of find a footing, to find a hold, and to outperform. Year to date, this portfolio is struggling down about 11.33%, while the S&P 500 is up that 8.96%. So very surprising that we’re struggling as much as we are to catch up there.

I do think that by the end of the year, we are going to find our footing here. We’re going to catch up with that. We have a lot of quality names that I think are in this portfolio. And again, we’ve had a couple of picks that we just ended up picking right at the top, and the stocks kind of struggled afterwards.

But I do see long-term growth prospects in both of these. I won’t drop those names now just because I want to keep those two names reserved for paying subscribers. But I think when those two picks start to pick up, we’ll start to see that performance again, catch its footing, and start to grow again. If we do look at performance over the past three months, we’re up about 1%, while the S&P 500 is up about 13%.

Again, just struggling to find a footing. Earlier in June, we were up about 16.34%, while the S&P 500 was up 15.9%. So again, we definitely have the ability in this portfolio to catch up and surpass S&P 500 returns. I think we’re just missing out on some of these growth opportunities.

And I’m watching stocks. I’m watching potential investments for us in this portfolio that could help bolster those returns. And I just haven’t found anything that I want to rotate into yet, or any stocks that I think are so bad we need to remove them from the portfolio. But I am watching that for sure.

So again, I don’t think there’s much to do here except kind of rest, wait, and watch and see if some of our stocks can start to pick up and return for us here. But overall, it’s going to be a waiting game in the tech-focused growth world.

The Second-Hand Effects Portfolio

Now, the last thing that I have for you is the Second Hand Effects portfolio. Of course, this is focused heavily on AI. Year to date, I’m showing aggregate performance of 20.96% returns, again, outperforming the S&P 500, which is at that 8.96% return mark. So we’re up about 12% over the S&P 500 right now.

Again, our top pick here has just been incredible. It’s been Bloom Energy. It’s at about a 15% allocation in the portfolio, up around 987% since we initially picked it. I’m sure we’ll see this kind of sell-off today as we see the broader market and tech sell-off.

But overall, very well. The second pick that we have here is GEV, which is GE Verona. 7.78% weighting and is up 56.5%. So great performance out of the top two picks in this portfolio as well. But we’re seeing a bit of a drag from lower quality, lower place picks in the portfolio.

Again, I’m not worried about this at all. I think energy has a very, very, very long runway. When it comes to the AI build-out, we’re still seeing tons of data centers being put on. We’re seeing tons of money being thrown at data centers, and we know that the grid cannot sustain the current build-out and all of that stuff.

So we’re expecting things like Bloom Energy, we’re expecting power generators, we’re expecting things like that to really pick up and grow and flourish in that kind of environment over the next couple of years. And so really, we’re looking at long-term plays here. And we do and are expecting these to pan out and perform even better over the next one, two, three, four years.

So great performance, across the board. I think we’re probably online with the S&P 500. No crazy outperformance, in aggregate across all the portfolios, but no crazy underperformance either. Individual portfolios, of course, are outperforming in some aspects across the board.

But in general, I think we’re pretty well-positioned for growth, and I think when we see sell-offs, like what is probably going to come today and maybe this week, I think we’re well-positioned to weather those pretty well, just to sit through, feel them out, and not see massive drawdowns in the portfolio. Of course, only time will tell what kind of performance we end up seeing. But in general, I feel very well-positioned about our portfolios. I think drawdowns like this do present small buying opportunities if you are looking to allocate some capital.

And in general, we’re happy to sit where we are. So I will be seeing you next week. That’s all I had for this week. Just a quick update for you.

If you have any questions, as always, just reach out to me and ask. I’m happy to answer any questions, and I’ll be seeing you next week. We’ll talk then.

- ¢, Founder of The Simple Side

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